Biblio

Previous research on internal threats was mostly focused on modeling threat behaviors. These studies have paid little attention to risk measurement. This paper analyzed the internal threat scenarios, introduced the operation related protection model into the firewall-password model, constructed a series of sub models. By analyzing the illegal data out process, the analysis model of target network can be rapidly generated based on four protection sub-models. Then the risk value of an assessment point can be computed dynamically according to the Petri net computing characteristics and the effectiveness of overall network protection can be measured. This method improves the granularity of the model and simplifies the complexity of modeling complex networks and can realize dynamic and real-time risk measurement.

Locking the functionality of an integrated circuit (IC) thwarts attacks such as intellectual property (IP) piracy, hardware Trojans, overbuilding, and counterfeiting. Although functional locking has been extensively investigated, locking the performance of an IC has been little explored. In this paper, we develop provably-secure performance locking, where only on applying the correct key the IC shows superior performance; for an incorrect key, the performance of the IC degrades significantly. This leads to a new business model, where the companies can design a single IC capable of different performances for different users. We develop mathematical definitions of security and theoretically, and experimentally prove the security against the state-of-the-art-attacks. We implemented performance locking on a FabScalar microprocessor, achieving a degradation in instructions per clock cycle (IPC) of up to 77% on applying an incorrect key, with an overhead of 0.6%, 0.2%, and 0% for area, power, and delay, respectively.

Nowadays, most vendors apply the same open source code to their products, which is dangerous. In addition, when manufacturers release patches, they generally hide the exact location of the vulnerabilities. So, identifying vulnerabilities in binaries is crucial. However, just searching source program has a lower identifying accuracy of vulnerability, which requires operators further to differentiate searched results. Under this context, we propose VMPBL to enhance identifying the accuracy of vulnerability with the help of patch files. VMPBL, compared with other proposed schemes, uses patched functions according to its vulnerable functions in patch file to further distinguish results. We establish a prototype of VMPBL, which can effectively identify vulnerable function types and get rid of safe functions from results. Firstly, we get the potential vulnerable-patched functions by binary comparison technique based on K-Trace algorithm. Then we combine the functions with vulnerability and patch knowledge database to classify these function pairs and identify the possible vulnerable functions and the vulnerability types. Finally, we test some programs containing real-world CWE vulnerabilities, and one of the experimental results about CWE415 shows that the results returned from only searching source program are about twice as much as the results from VMPBL. We can see that using VMPBL can significantly reduce the false positive rate of discovering vulnerabilities compared with analyzing source files alone.

Operating data analysis means to analyze the operating system logs, user operation logs, various types of alarms and security relevant configurations, etc. The purpose is to find whether there is an attack event, suspicious behaviors or improper configurations. It is an important part of risk assessment for enterprise intranet. However, due to the lack of information security knowledge or relevant experience, many people do not know how to properly implement it. In this article, we provided guidance on conducting operating data analysis and how to determine the security risk with the analysis results.

We always use CAPTCHA(Completely Automated Public Turing test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) to prevent automated bot for data entry. Although there are various kinds of CAPTCHAs, text-based scheme is still applied most widely, because it is one of the most convenient and user-friendly way for daily user [1]. The fact is that segmentations of different types of CAPTCHAs are not always the same, which means one of CAPTCHA's bottleneck is the segmentation. Once we could accurately split the character, the problem could be solved much easier. Unfortunately, the best way to divide them is still case by case, which is to say there is no universal way to achieve it. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm to achieve state-of-the-art performance, what was more, we also constructed a new convolutional neural network as an add-on recognition part to stabilize our state-of-the-art performance of the whole CAPTCHA system. The CAPTCHA datasets we are using is from the State Administration for Industry& Commerce of the People's Republic of China. In this datasets, there are totally 33 entrances of CAPTCHAs. In this experiments, we assume that each of the entrance is known. Results are provided showing how our algorithms work well towards these CAPTCHAs.