Visible to the public MalFire: Malware firewall for malicious content detection and protection

TitleMalFire: Malware firewall for malicious content detection and protection
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsYost, W., Jaiswal, C.
Conference Name2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON)
Date Publishedoct
ISBN Number978-1-5386-1104-3
Keywordsad blocking tool, Adware, adware content, adware injection, Companies, compositionality, contemporary threats, Content Injection, data privacy, firewalls, Human Behavior, Internet, invasive software, IP networks, MalFire, malicious content detection, malicious content protection, Malware, malware firewall, malware injection, Metrics, online portion, privacy, pubcrawl, Resiliency, security, sensitive information, Tools, user data privacy, user data security, vulnerability detection, Web servers
Abstract

The online portion of modern life is growing at an astonishing rate, with the consequence that more of the user's critical information is stored online. This poses an immediate threat to privacy and security of the user's data. This work will cover the increasing dangers and security risks of adware, adware injection, and malware injection. These programs increase in direct proportion to the number of users on the Internet. Each of these programs presents an imminent threat to a user's privacy and sensitive information, anytime they utilize the Internet. We will discuss how current ad blockers are not the actual solution to these threats, but rather a premise to our work. Current ad blocking tools can be discovered by the web servers which often requires suppression of the ad blocking tool. Suppressing the tool creates vulnerabilities in a user's system, but even when the tool is active their system is still susceptible to peril. It is possible, even when an ad blocking tool is functioning, for it to allow adware content through. Our solution to the contemporary threats is our tool, MalFire.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8249075
DOI10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249075
Citation Keyyost_malfire:_2017