Watermarking, tamper-proffing, and obfuscation: tools for software protection
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Toward an abstract computer virology
ICTAC'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computing
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The threat of attack by computer viruses is in reality a very small part of a much more general threat, specifically attacks aimed at subverting computer security. This paper examines computer viruses as malicious logic in a research and development environment, relates them to various models of security and integrity, and examines current research techniques aimed at controlling the threats viruses in particular, and malicious logic in gerneral, pose to computer systems. Finally, a brief examination of the vulnerabilities of research and development systems that malicious logic and computer viruses may exploit is undertaken.