Detecting Peripheral-based Attacks on the Host Memory

This work addresses stealthy peripheral-based attacks on host computers and presents a new approach to detecting them. Peripherals can be regarded as separate systems that have a dedicated processor and dedicated runtime memory to handle their tasks. The book addresses the problem that peripherals g...

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Main Author: Stewin, Patrick. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13515-1
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Technical Background, Preliminaries and Assumptions
  • Related Work
  • Study of a Stealthy, Direct Memory Access based Malicious Software
  • A Primitive for Detecting DMA Malware
  • Authentic Reporting to External Platforms
  • Conclusions and Future Work.