15 citations · 19 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for
5 papers
Runtime Verification for Trustworthy Computing
Robert Abela, Christian Colombo, Axel Curmi +3
Autonomous and robotic systems are increasingly being trusted with sensitive activities with potentially serious consequences if that trust is broken. Runtime verification techniqu…
Casting exploit analysis as a Weird Machine reconstruction problem
Robert Abela, Mark Vella
Exploits constitute malware in the form of application inputs. They take advantage of security vulnerabilities inside programs in order to yield execution control to attackers. The…
Responding to Living-Off-the-Land Tactics using Just-in-Time Memory Forensics (JIT-MF) for Android
Jennifer Bellizzi, Mark Vella, Christian Colombo +1
Digital investigations of stealthy attacks on Android devices pose particular challenges to incident responders. Whereas consequential late detection demands accurate and comprehen…
EtherClue: Digital investigation of attacks on Ethereum smart contracts
Simon Joseph Aquilina, Fran Casino, Mark Vella +2
Programming errors in Ethereum smart contracts can result in catastrophic financial losses from stolen cryptocurrency. While vulnerability detectors can prevent vulnerable contract…
SpotCheck: On-Device Anomaly Detection for Android
Mark Vella, Christian Colombo
In recent years the PC has been replaced by mobile devices for many security sensitive operations, both from a privacy and a financial standpoint. While security mechanisms are dep…