MalFire: Malware firewall for malicious content detection and protection
Title | MalFire: Malware firewall for malicious content detection and protection |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Yost, W., Jaiswal, C. |
Conference Name | 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) |
Date Published | oct |
ISBN Number | 978-1-5386-1104-3 |
Keywords | ad 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. |
URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8249075 |
DOI | 10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8249075 |
Citation Key | yost_malfire:_2017 |
- malicious content protection
- Web servers
- vulnerability detection
- user data security
- user data privacy
- tools
- sensitive information
- security
- Resiliency
- pubcrawl
- privacy
- online portion
- Metrics
- malware injection
- malware firewall
- malware
- ad blocking tool
- malicious content detection
- MalFire
- IP networks
- invasive software
- internet
- Human behavior
- firewalls
- data privacy
- Content Injection
- contemporary threats
- Compositionality
- Companies
- adware injection
- adware content
- Adware