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Detecting Malware with Information Complexity
Nadia Alshahwan, Earl T. Barr, David Clark +1
This work focuses on a specific front of the malware detection arms-race, namely the detection of persistent, disk-resident malware. We exploit normalised compression distance (NCD…
Casper: Debugging Null Dereferences with Dynamic Causality Traces
Benoit Cornu, Earl T. Barr, Lionel Seinturier +1
Fixing a software error requires understanding its root cause. In this paper, we introduce ''causality traces'', crafted execution traces augmented with the information needed to r…
On the Lexical Distinguishability of Source Code
Martin Velez, Dong Qiu, You Zhou +2
Natural language is robust against noise. The meaning of many sentences survives the loss of words, sometimes many of them. Some words in a sentence, however, cannot be lost withou…