The authors present FlowFox, the first fully functional web browser that implements a precise and general information flow control mechanism for web scripts based on the technique of secure multi-execution. They demonstrate how FlowFox subsumes many ad-hoc script containment countermeasures developed over the last years. They also show that FlowFox is compatible with the current ...

Touch input has been extensively studied. The influence of display orientation on users’ performance and satisfaction, however, is not well understood. In an experiment, the authors manipulate the orientation of multi-touch surfaces to study how 16 participants tap and drag. To analyze if and when participants switch hands or interact bimanually, they track the hands ...

Fog Computing extends the Cloud Computing paradigm to the edge of the network, thus enabling a new breed of applications and services. Defining characteristics of the Fog are: low latency and location awareness; wide-spread geographical distribution; mobility; very large number of nodes, predominant role of wireless access, strong presence of streaming and real time applications, ...

The authors present Odin, an SDN framework to introduce programmability in enterprise Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Enterprise WLANs need to support a wide range of services and functionalities. This includes authentication, authorization and accounting, policy, mobility and interference management, and load balancing. WLANs also exhibit unique challenges. In particular, Access Point (AP) association decisions ...

The rapid evolution of modern social networks motivates the design of networks based on users’ interests. Using popular social media such as Facebook and Twitter, the authors show that this new perspective can generate more meaningful information about the networks. In this paper, they model user-interest based networks by deducing intent from social media activities ...

Honeyd is an application which enables the setup of multiple virtual honeypots on a single machine, each with different characteristics and services. It is a nice little tool which can be perfectly used to setup a low to mid involvement honeypot. The possibility to generate different virtual honeypots on one machine with even different simulated ...

Offshore Software Development Outsourcing (OSDO) is a modern business strategy for developing high quality software at low-wage countries at reduced cost. Outsourcing is a contract based association between vendor and client organization, where a client organization contracts-out with vendor organization for software development work to be provided by vendor organization in return for remuneration. This ...

Users tend to create passwords that are easy to guess, while system-assigned passwords tend to be hard to remember. Passphrases, space-delimited sets of natural language words, have been suggested as both secure and usable for decades. In a 1,476-participant online study, the authors explored the usability of 3- and 4-word system-assigned passphrases in comparison to ...

Smartphone sales have recently experienced explosive growth. Their popularity also encourages malware authors to penetrate various mobile marketplaces with malicious applications (or apps). These malicious apps hide in the sheer number of other normal apps, which makes their detection challenging. Existing mobile anti-virus software are inadequate in their reactive nature by relying on known malware ...

The effectiveness of at-speed silicon debug is constrained by the limited trace buffer size and/or trace port bandwidth, requiring highly-efficient trace data compression solutions. As it is usually inevitable to have unknown ‘X’ values during silicon debug, trace compressor should be equipped with X-tolerance feature in order not to significantly degrade error detection capability. To ...