As our professional, social, and financial existences become increasingly digitized and as
our government, healthcare, and military infrastructures rely more on computer technologies …

When designing computer monitoring systems, one goal has always been to have a
complete view of the monitored target and at the same time stealthily protect the monitor …

Virtualization is being widely adopted in today's computing systems. Its unique security
advantages in isolating and introspecting commodity OSes as virtual machines (VMs) have …

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are one of the key components for securing computing
infrastructures. Their objective is to protect against attempts to violate defense mechanisms …

Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide
their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control data or …

Targeting the operating system (OS) kernel, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to
computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocking …

The results of memory forensics can not only be used as evidence in court but are also
beneficial for analyzing vulnerability and improving security. Thus, memory forensics has …

While smart devices based on ARM processor bring us a lot of convenience, they also
become an attractive target of cyber-attacks. The threat is exaggerated as commodity OSes …

A transparent and extensible malware analysis platform is essential for defeating malware.
This platform should be transparent so malware cannot easily detect and bypass it. It should …

Behavior-based malware analysis is an important technique for automatically analyzing and
detecting malware, and it has received considerable attention from both academic and …