Anti-virus vendors are confronted with a multitude of potentially malicious samples today.
Receiving thousands of new samples every day is not uncommon. The signatures that …

Malicious programs spy on users' behavior and compromise their privacy. Even software
from reputable vendors, such as Google Desktop and Sony DRM media player, may perform …

The need for cyber resilience is increasingly important in our technology-dependent society
where computing devices and data have been, and will continue to be, the target of cyber …

Spyware is rapidly becoming a major security issue. Spyware programs are surreptitiously
installed on a user's workstation to monitor his/her actions and gather private information …

Malicious spyware poses a significant threat to desktop security and integrity. This paper
examines that threat from an Internet perspective. Using a crawler, we performed a large …

Spyware is a class of malicious code that is surreptitiously installed on victims' machines.
Once active, it silently monitors the behavior of users, records their web surfing habits, and …

Stealth malware programs that silently infect enterprise and consumer machines are
becoming a major threat to the future of the Internet. Resource hiding is a powerful stealth …

This paper explores the use of execution-based Web content analysis to protect users from
Internet-borne malware. Many anti-malware tools use signatures to identify malware …

Kernel-level rootkits affect system security by modifying key kernel data structures to achieve
a variety of malicious goals. While early rootkits modified control data structures, such as the …

Embodiments of a feedback-driven malware detector are directed to protecting a computer
from programs that perform actions that are malicious or not expected by a user. In one …