Our Publications on Rootkits
Detecting Kernel-Level Rootkits
using Data Structure Invariants.
A. Baliga, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. To appear in the IEEE Transactions
on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2010.
Rootkits on Smart Phones: Attacks, Implications and Opportunities.
J. Bickford, R. O'Hare, A. Baliga, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode.
To appear in the Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop
on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2010),
Annapolis, MD, February 22-23, 2010.
Identifying Systemic Threats to Kernel Data: Attacks
and Defense Techniques.
A. Baliga, P. Kamat, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode.
Advanced
Operating Systems and Kernel Applications, Y. Wiseman
and S. Jiang (Eds), Information Science Reference, September 2009.
Automatic Detection and Containment of Stealth Attacks on the
Operating System Kernel. A. Baliga. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers University, January 2009.
Automatic Inference and Enforcement of Kernel Data Structure
Invariants. A. Baliga, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode.
Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security
Applications Conference (ACSAS),
Anaheim, CA, December 2008. Best Student Paper Award.
Automated Defense from Rootkit
Attacks.
A. Baliga, L. Iftode and X. Chen.
In Computers and Security, Elsevier,
Volume 27, Issues 7-8, December 2008, pp. 323-334.
Lurking in the Shadows:
Identifying Systemic Threats to Kernel Data.
A. Baliga, P. Kamat and L. Iftode.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 2007.