Giovanni Vigna - Publications

  • Are Your Votes Really Counted? Testing the Security of Real-world Electronic Voting Systems D. Balzarotti, G. Banks, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, R. Kemmerer, W. Robertson, F. Valeur, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis Seattle, WA July 2008 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Saner: Composing Static and Dynamic Analysis to Validate Sanitization in Web Applications D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, N. Jovanovic, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Oakland, CA May 2008 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • ClearShot: Eavesdropping on Keyboard Input from Video D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Oakland, CA May 2008 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • EVEREST: Evaluation and Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing P. McDaniel, M. Blaze, G. Vigna, et al. Ohio Secretary of State's EVEREST Report December 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Feature Omission Vulnerabilities: Thwarting Signature Generation for Polymorphic Worms M. Van Gundy, H. Chen, Z. Su, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) Miami, FL December 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Improving Signature Testing Through Dynamic Data Flow Analysis C.Kruegel, D. Balzarotti, W. Robertson, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) Miami, FL December 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Security Evaluation of the Sequoia Voting System G. Vigna, R. Kemmerer, D. Balzarotti, G. Banks, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, W. Robertson, and F. Valeur California Secretary of State's Top-To-Bottom Review of the California Voting Machines July 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Multi-Module Vulnerability Analysis of Web-based Applications D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Alexandria, VA October 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Swaddler: An Approach for the Anomaly-based Detection of State Violations in Web Applications M. Cova, D. Balzarotti, V. Felmetsger, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) Gold Coast, Australia September 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Exploiting Execution Context for the Detection of Anomalous System Calls D. Mutz, W. Robertson, G. Vigna, and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) Gold Coast, Australia September 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Catch Me, If You Can: Evading Network Signatures with Web-based Polymorphic Worms M. Van Gundy, D. Balzarotti, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the First USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) Boston, MA August 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Extending .NET Security to Unmanaged Code P. Klinkoff, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, and G. Vigna International Journal of Information Security 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Is Code Still Moving Around? Looking Back at a Decade of Code Mobility A. Carzaniga, G.P. Picco, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)Minneapolis, MN May 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Cross-Site Scripting Prevention with Dynamic Data Tainting and Static Analysis P. Vogt, F. Nentwich, N. Jovanovic, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, and G. Vigna Proceeding of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) San Diego, CA February 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Vulnerability Analysis of Web Applications M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, and G. Vigna Testing and Analysis of Web Services (L. Baresi and E. Dinitto Eds.) Springer 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Using a Virtual Security Testbed for Digital Forensic Reconstruction A. Arnes, P. Haas, G. Vigna, and R. Kemmerer Journal in Computer Virology, vol. 2, no. 4 Springer February 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Static Disassembly and Code Analysis G. Vigna Malware Detection (M. Christodorescu, S. Jha, D. Maughan, D. Song, and C. Wang Eds.) 2007 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Vulnerability Analysis of MMS User Agents C. Mulliner and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) Miami, Florida December 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Static Detection of Vulnerabilities in x86 Executables M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, G. Banks, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) Miami, Florida December 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Using Hidden Markov Models to Evaluate the Risks of Intrusions: System Architecture and Model Validation A. Arnes, F. Valeur, G. Vigna, and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) Hamburg, Germany September 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Behavior-based Spyware Detection E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, G. Banks, G. Vigna, and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium Vancouver, Canada August 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Extending .NET Security to Unmanaged Code P. Klinkoff, C. Kruegel, E. Kirda, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Information Security Conference (ISC) Samos, Greece August 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • SNOOZE: toward a Stateful NetwOrk prOtocol fuzZEr G. Banks, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, K. Almeroth, R. Kemmerer, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Information Security Conference (ISC) Samos, Greece August 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Using Labeling to Prevent Cross-Service Attacks Against Smart Phones C. Mulliner, G. Vigna, D. Dagon, and W. Lee Proceedings of the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) Berlin, Germany July 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Digital Forensic Reconstruction and the Virtual Security Testbed ViSe A. Arnes, P. Haas, G. Vigna, and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) Berlin, Germany July 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • An Anomaly-driven Reverse Proxy for Web Applications F. Valeur, G. Vigna, C. Kruegel, and E. Kirda Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Dijon, France April 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Noxes: A Client-Side Solution for Mitigating Cross-Site Scripting Attacks E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna, and N. Jovanovic Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Dijon, France April 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Anomalous System Call Detection D. Mutz, F. Valeur, C. Kruegel, and G. Vigna ACM Transactions on Information and System Security ACM Press 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Using Generalization and Characterization Techniques in the Anomaly-based Detection of Web Attacks W. Robertson, G. Vigna, C. Kruegel, and R. Kemmerer Proceeding of the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium San Diego, CA February 2006 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems G. Vigna and C. Kruegel The Handbook of Information Security, Volume III John Wiley & Sons December 2005 BibTeX entry
  • Hi-DRA: Intrusion Detection for Internet Security R. Kemmerer and G. Vigna IEEE Proceedings vol. 93, no. 10 1848-1857 IEEE October 2005 PDF,BibTeX entry
  • Polymorphic Worm Detection Using Structural Information of Executables C. Kruegel, E. Kirda, D. Mutz, W. Robertson, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) 207-226 LNCS, Springer-Verlag Seattle, WA September 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Multi-model Approach to the Detection of Web-based Attacks C. Kruegel, G. Vigna, and W. Robertson Computer Networks vol. 48, no. 5 717-738 August 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Automating Mimicry Attacks Using Static Binary Analysis C. Kruegel, E. Kirda, D. Mutz, W. Robertson, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium Baltimore, MD August 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Learning-Based Approach to the Detection of SQL Attacks F. Valeur, D. Mutz, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) Vienna, Austria July 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Detecting Malicious JavaScript Code in Mozilla O. Hallaraker and G. Vigna Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) 85-94 Shanghai, China June 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Exploiting OS-level Mechanisms to Implement Mobile Code Security V. Felmetsger and G. Vigna Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) 234-243 Shanghai, China June 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Reverse Engineering of Network Signatures C. Kruegel, D. Mutz, W. Robertson, G. Vigna, and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the AusCERT Asia Pacific Information Technology Security Conference Gold Coast, Australia May 2005 Best Paper Award PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Intrusion Detection and Correlation: Challenges and Solutions C. Kruegel, F. Valeur, and G. Vigna Springer-Verlag 0-387-233398-9 2005 BibTeX entry
  • Sensor Families for Intrusion Detection Infrastructures R.A. Kemmerer and G. Vigna Managing Cyber Threats: Issues, Approaches and Challenges Springer-Verlag January 2005 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Detecting Kernel-Level Rootkits Through Binary Analysis C. Kruegel, W. Robertson, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 91-100 Tucson, AZ December 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Detecting Attacks That Exploit Application-Logic Errors Through Application-Level Auditing J. Zhou and G. Vigna Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 168-178 Tucson, AZ December 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • An Intrusion Detection Tool for AODV-based Ad Hoc Wireless Networks G. Vigna, S. Gwalani, K. Srinivasan, E. Belding-Royer, and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 16-27 Tucson, AZ December 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Using Alert Verification to Identify Successful Intrusion Attempts C. Kruegel, W. Robertson, and G. Vigna Practice in Information Processing and Communication (PIK) vol. 27, no. 4 219-227 October/December, 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Testing Network-based Intrusion Detection Signatures Using Mutant Exploits G. Vigna, W. Robertson, and D. Balzarotti Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (ACM CCS) 21-30 Washington, DC October 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Comprehensive Approach to Intrusion Detection Alert Correlation F. Valeur, G. Vigna, C. Kruegel, and R. Kemmerer IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computingvol. 1, no. 3146-169 July-September 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Static Disassembly of Obfuscated Binaries C. Kruegel, W. Robertson, F. Valeur, and G. Vigna Proceedings of USENIX Security 2004 255-270 San Diego, CA August 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Mobile Agents: Ten Reasons For Failure G. Vigna Proceedings of MDM 2004 298-299 Berkeley, CA January 2004 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Stateful Intrusion Detection System for World-Wide Web Servers G. Vigna, W. Robertson, V. Kher, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 34-43 Las Vegas, NV December 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • An Experience Developing an IDS Stimulator for the Black-Box Testing of Network Intrusion Detection Systems D. Mutz, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 374-383 Las Vegas, NV December 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Anomaly Detection of Web-based Attacks C. Kruegel and G. Vigna Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS '03) 251-261 ACM Press Washington, DC October 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • On the Detection of Anomalous System Call Arguments C. Kruegel, D. Mutz, F. Valeur, and G. Vigna Proceedings of ESORICS 2003 326-343 LNCS, Springer-Verlag Gjovik, Norway October 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Teaching Hands-On Network Security: Testbeds and Live Exercises G. Vigna Journal of Information Warfare vol. 3, no. 2 8-25 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Topological Characterization of TCP/IP Security G. Vigna Proceedings of the 12th International FME Symposium 914-940 LNCS 2805, Springer-Verlag Pisa, Italy September 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) G. Vigna, E. Jonsson, and C. Kruegel (Editors) LNCS 2820, Springer-Verlag Pittsburgh, PA September 2003 BibTeX entry
  • Designing and Implementing A Family of Intrusion Detection Systems G. Vigna, F. Valeur, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Engineering (ESEC) 88-97 Helsinki, Finland September 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Teaching Network Security Through Live Exercises G. Vigna Proceedings of the Third Annual World Conference on Information Security Education (WISE 3) 3-18 Kluwer Academic Publishers Monterey, CA June 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Detecting Malicious Java Code Using Virtual Machine Auditing S. Soman, C. Krintz, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Security Symposium 153-167 Washington, DC August 2003 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Composable Tools For Network Discovery and Security Analysis G. Vigna, F. Valeur, J. Zhou, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 14-24 IEEE Press Las Vegas, NV December 2002 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Designing and Implementing Network Short-Term Memory G. Vigna and A. Mitchell Proceedings of ICECCS '02 91-100 IEEE Press Greenbelt, MD December 2002 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • An Intrusion Detection System for Aglets G. Vigna, B. Cassell, and D. Fayram Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA '02) 64-77 LNCS 2535, Springer-Verlag Barcelona, Spain October 2002 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Sensor-Based Intrusion Detection for Intra-Domain Distance-Vector Routing V.  Mittal and G. Vigna Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS'02) 127-137 ACM Press Washington, DC November 2002 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • STATL: An Attack Language for State-based Intrusion Detection S.T. Eckmann, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer Journal of Computer Security vol. 10, no. 1/2 71-104 IOS Press 2002 PostScript, BibTeX entry
  • Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) A. Wespi, G. Vigna, and L. Deri, (Editors) LNCS 2516, Springer-Verlag Zurich, Switzerland October 2002 BibTeX entry
  • Stateful Intrusion Detection for High-Speed Networks C. Kruegel, F. Valeur, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Research on Security and Privacy 285-293 IEEE Press Oakland, CA May 2002 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Intrusion Detection: A Brief History and Overview R.A. Kemmerer and G. Vigna IEEE Computer Special Issue on Security and Privacy 27-30 IEEE Press April 2002 PDF, BibTeX entry Russian translation appeared on the Russian computer science journal Open Systems, November 2002. PDF
  • MASSA: Mobile Agents Security through Static/Dynamic Analysis A. Orso, M.J. Harrold, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the First ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering and Mobility (WSEM 2001) Toronto, Canada April 2001 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Security Testing of an Online Banking Service A.L.M. dos Santos, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer E-Commerce Security and Privacy 3-15 Kluwer Academic Publisher 2001 BibTeX entry
  • Evaluating the Security Of Three Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems S. Fischmeister, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Agents (MA 2001) 31-41 LNCS 2240, Springer-Verlag Atlanta, GA December 2001 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Designing a Web of Highly-Configurable Intrusion Detection Sensors G. Vigna, R.A. Kemmerer, and P. Blix Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2001) 69-84 LNCS 2212, Springer-Verlag Davis, CA October 2001 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Security Testing of the Online Banking Service of a Large International Bank A.L.M. dos Santos, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the First Workshop on Security and Privacy in E-Commerce (WSPEC) 1-13 Athens, Greece November 2000 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • STATL: An Attack Language for State-based Intrusion Detection S.T. Eckmann, G. Vigna, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Intrusion Detection Athens, Greece November 2000 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Attack Languages G. Vigna, S.T. Eckmann, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of the IEEE Information Survivability Workshop (ISW 2000) 163-166 Boston, MA October 2000 PS, BibTeX entry
  • The STAT Tool Suite G. Vigna, S.T. Eckmann, and R.A. Kemmerer Proceedings of DISCEX 2000 46-55 IEEE Press Hilton Head, SC January 2000 PostScript, BibTeX entry
  • NetSTAT: A Network-based Intrusion Detection System G. Vigna and R. Kemmerer Journal of Computer Security 7(1) 37-71 IOS Press 1999 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • NetSTAT: A Network-based Intrusion Detection Approach G. Vigna and R. Kemmerer Proceedings of the 14th Annual Computer Security Application Conference 25-34 IEEE Press Scottsdale, AZ December 1998 Outstanding Paper Award PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Software Engineering Issues in Network Computing C. Ghezzi and G. Vigna Requirements Targeting Software and System Engineering 101-123 LNCS 1526, Springer-Verlag August 1998 Postscript, BibTeX entry
  • Mobile Agents and Security G. Vigna (Editor) LNCS 1419, Springer-Verlag June 1998 Book cover, Table of Contents, BibTeX entry
  • Cryptographic Traces for Mobile Agents G. Vigna Mobile Agents and Security 137-153 LNCS 1419, Springer-Verlag June 1998 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Model-Centered Electronic Commerce Middleware G. Vigna and L. Bonomi Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Electronic Commerce Hamburg, Germany June 1998 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Understanding Code Mobility A. Fuggetta, G.P. Picco, and G. Vigna IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 24(5) 342-361 May 1998 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Towards a Software Engineering Approach to Web Site Development F. Coda, C. Ghezzi, G. Vigna, and F. Garzotto Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design 8-17 IEEE Press Ise-Shima, Japan April 1998 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Mobile Code Technologies, Paradigms, and Applications G. Vigna PhD Thesis Politecnico di Milano, Italy February 1998 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing G. Vigna Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Mobile Object Systems Jyvaskyla, Finland June 1997 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Designing Distributed Applications with Mobile Code Paradigms A. Carzaniga, G. P. Picco, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering 22-32 ACM Press Boston, MA April 1997 PDF, Powerpoint presentation, BibTeX entry
  • Mobile Code Paradigms and Technologies: A Case Study C. Ghezzi and G. Vigna Proceeding of the First International Workshop on Mobile Agents (MA '97) 39-49 LNCS 1219, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Germany April 1997 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Analyzing Mobile Code Languages G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, G.P. Picco, and G. Vigna Mobile Object Systems: Towards the Programmable Internet 93-111 LNCS 1222, Springer-Verlag April 1997 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • A Characterization of Mobility and State Distribution in Mobile Code Languages G. Cugola, C. Ghezzi, G. P. Picco, and G. Vigna Special Issues in Object-Oriented Programming: Workshop Reader of the 10th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'96) 309-318 dpunkt Linz, Austria July 1996 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Archetype: Addressing Configuration Issues in Software Architectures S. Bandinelli, A. Carzaniga, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Architectures for Software Systems, 17th International Conference on Software Engineering Seattle, Washington April 1995 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • Inspect: A Distributed Approach To Automated Audit Trail Analysis G. Vigna Technical Report, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 1995 BibTeX entry
  • Designing and Implementing Inter-Client Communication in the O2 Database Management System A. Carzaniga, G. Picco, and G. Vigna Proceedings of the International Symposium on Object-Oriented Methodologies and Systems ISOOMS'94 53-64 LNCS vol. 858, Springer-Verlag Palermo, Italy September 1994 PDF, BibTeX entry
  • The Design and Implementation of SPADE-1 2.0 A. Carzaniga and G. Vigna Master's Thesis Politecnico di Milano, Italy July 1994 PDF, BibTeX entry

Giovanni Vigna - http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~vigna