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DAPA: Diagnosing Application Performance Anomalies for Virtualized Infrastructures
localizing the system bottlenecks that lead to SLA violations. This paper describes DAPA, a new performance ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 6:52 am
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Virtual Switching Without a Hypervisor for a More Secure Cloud
Xin Jin, Princeton University; Eric Keller, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University Cloud computing leverages virtualization to offer resources on demand to multiple “tenants”. However, sharing the server and network infrastruct ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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On Controller Performance in Software-Defined Networks
against systems that have not been optimized for performance. In this paper, we hope to establish both ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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Classification of UDP Traffic for DDoS Detection
paper presents our investigation into the proportional-packet rate assumption, and the use of this ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Advanced Persistent Threat
Ari Juels and Ting-Fang Yen, RSA Laboratories An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a targeted attack against a high-value asset or a physical system. Drawing from analogies in the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, we illustrate potenti ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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Observations on Emerging Threats
Paul Ferguson, Trend Micro, Inc. Trend Micro's Threat Research group is specially tasked with looking forward on the threat landscape and working with technology and/or various product development groups inside the company to ensure that, as a compa ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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Let's Parse to Prevent Pwnage
impact security, e.g., as shown by XML signature vulnerabilities. This paper advocates the position that ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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W32.Duqu: The Precursor to the Next Stuxnet
Eric Chien and Liam OMurchu, Symantec; Nicolas Falliere On October 14, 2011, we were alerted to a sample by the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The threat appeared very similar ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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So You Want to Take Over a Botnet...
David Dittrich, University of Washington Computer criminals regularly construct large distributed attack networks comprised of many thousands of compromised computers around the globe. Once constituted, these attack networks are used to perform computer ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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Challenges in Network Application Identification
rendered the traditional approaches for application identification ineffective. In this paper, we discuss ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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Tracking DDoS Attacks: Insights into the Business of Disrupting the Web
Underground markets. In this paper, we present an empirical study of modern DDoS botnets and analyze one ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 7:52 am
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RGBDroid: A Novel Response-Based Approach to Android Privilege Escalation Attacks
root-level privilege by exploiting vulnerabilities of the Android platform. This paper shows that i) a system ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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Clustering Potential Phishing Websites Using DeepMD5
attempt to create such an automated method is described in this paper. The method is based upon the ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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Ask WINE: Are We Safer Today? Evaluating Operating System Security through Big Data Analysis
determine what techniques make them safer from Internet attacks. In this position paper, we argue that to ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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Key Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots
messages to elicit information, sway opinions and call to action. In this position paper, we observe that ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship
parliamentary election results. In this paper, we undertake an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure and ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 8:52 am
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Parallel Programming for the Web
Stephan Herhut, Richard L. Hudson, Tatiana Shpeisman, and Jaswanth Sreeram, Intel Labs Parallel hardware is today’s reality and language extensions that ease exploiting its promised performance flourish. For most mainstream languages, one or more tailore ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 12:52 am
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A Case for Parallelizing Web Pages
Haohui Mai, Shuo Tang, and Samuel T. King, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Valkyrie Computer Systems; Calin Cascaval and Pablo Montesinos, Qualcomm Research Mobile web browsing is slow. With advancement of networking techniques, future m ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 12:52 am
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For Extreme Parallelism, Your OS Is Sooooo Last-Millennium
Rob Knauerhase, Romain Cledat, and Justin Teller, Intel Labs High-performance computing has been on an inexorable march from gigascale to tera- and petascale, with many researchers now actively contemplating exascale (1018, or a million trillion operatio ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 12:52 am
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Operating Systems Should Manage Accelerators
accelerator as it does for memory and CPU time. In this paper, we discuss the challenges presented by adopting ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 12:52 am
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Parallel Closures: A New Twist on an Old Idea
Nicholas D. Matsakis, Mozilla Research This paper presents a lightweight task framework and ... a typechecker that enforces the constraint that parallel closures cannot modify their environment. The paper ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 12:52 am
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"Simultaneous" Considered Harmful: Modular Parallelism
the “normal” case, with parallelism considered to be optional “acceleration.” In this position paper ... practices. We focus in this paper on some of these problematic ideas, design, and implementation structures ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 12:52 am
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Disciplined Concurrent Programming Using Tasks with Effects
Stephen Heumann and Vikram Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Concurrent programming has become ubiquitous, but today’s widely-used concurrent programming models provide few safety guarantees, making it easy to write code with subtle errors ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 1:52 am
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HydraVM: Extracting Parallelism from Legacy Sequential Code Using STM
Mohamed M. Saad, Mohamed Mohamedin, and Binoy Ravindran, Virginia Tech We present a virtual machine prototype, called HydraVM, that automatically extracts parallelism from legacy sequential code (at the bytecode level) through a set of techniques includi ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 1:52 am
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Parallelization by Simulated Tunneling
Amos Waterland, Harvard University; Jonathan Appavoo, Boston University; Margo Seltzer, Harvard University As highly parallel heterogeneous computers become commonplace, automatic parallelization of software is an increasingly critical unsolved probl ...jel - December 18, 2021 - 1:52 am