Software aging is a phenomenon plaguing many long-running complex software systems,
which exhibit performance degradation or an increasing failure rate. Several strategies …

Context: Diversification and obfuscation are promising techniques for securing software and
protecting computers from harmful malware. The goal of these techniques is not removing …

This paper describes GenProg, an automated method for repairing defects in off-the-shelf,
legacy programs without formal specifications, program annotations, or special coding …

Unlike library code, whose instruction addresses can be randomized by address space
layout randomization (ASLR), application binary code often has static instruction addresses …

In recent years, the deployment of many application-level countermeasures against memory
errors and the increasing number of vulnerabilities discovered in the kernel has fostered a …

Protecting critical systems and assets against cyberattacks is an ever more difficult
challenge that strongly favors attackers. Whereas defenders must protect a large, diverse set …

Memory error exploitations have been around for over 25 years and still rank among the top
3 most dangerous software errors. Why haven't we been able to stop them? Given the host …

Diversity has long been regarded as a security mechanism for improving the resilience of
software and networks against various attacks. More recently, diversity has found new …