Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category
Dealing with Windows Rootkits
Rootkits are one of the most insidious attack tools in the wild Internet.В Rootkits can replace core components of the operating system kernel.В In many ways, it is like lifting the user-visible operating system up into a virtual world and placing an attacker-controlled hypervisor between the OS and the hardware.В This gives the attacker the [...]
February 1, 2010
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View my Thesis
My thesis is approved and posted online at the UHCL Distributed Computer Security Lab website. Here is the link. Contact me if you have any comments or questions: sbrusch@gmail.com.
June 7, 2008
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Interleaved Hop-by-Hop Authentication
A synopsis of: Zhu, S., S. Setia, S. Jajodia, and P. Ning, “An Interleaved Hop-by-Hop Authentication Scheme for Filtering False Data Injection in Sensor Networks,” IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 9-12, 2004, pp. 260-272. When analyzing security of wireless sensor network protocols, designers assume that nodes will be compromised. The compromise [...]
December 27, 2007
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