Context: Diversification and obfuscation are promising techniques for securing software and
protecting computers from harmful malware. The goal of these techniques is not removing …

Early experiments with software diversity in the mid 1970s investigated N-version
programming and recovery blocks to increase the reliability of embedded systems. Four …

In recent years, the deployment of many application-level countermeasures against memory
errors and the increasing number of vulnerabilities discovered in the kernel has fostered a …

Code-reuse attacks continue to evolve and remain a severe threat to modern software.
Recent research has proposed a variety of defenses with differing security, efficiency, and …

Existing techniques for memory randomization such as the widely explored Address Space
Layout Randomization (ASLR) perform a single, per-process randomization that is applied …

Memory corruption vulnerabilities not only allow modification of control data and injection of
malicious payloads; they also allow adversaries to reconnoiter a diversified program …

In many applications, source code and debugging symbols of a target program are not
available, and the only thing that we can access is the program executable. A fundamental …

Systems that are built using low-power computationally-weak devices, which force
developers to favor performance over security; which jointly with its high connectivity …

Software obfuscation has been developed for over 30 years. A problem always confusing
the communities is what security strength the technique can achieve. Nowadays, this …

Memory deduplication has been widely used in various commodity hypervisors. By merging
identical memory contents, it allows more virtual machines to run concurrently on top of a …