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"What Should be Hidden and Open in Computer Security: Lessons from Deception, the Art of War, Law, and Economic Theory" Peter P. Swire, George Washington University. Imagine a military base. It is defended against possible attack. Do we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter P. Swire

Malicious attacks on open-source software packages are a growing concern. The discovery of the XZ Utils backdoor intensified these concerns because of the potential widespread impact. This study, therefore, explores the challenges of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Duc-Ly Vu , Trevor Dunlap , Karla Obermeier-Velazquez , Thanh-Cong Nguyen , Paul Gibert , John Speed Meyers , Santiago Torres-Arias

The use of free and open source software (OSS) is gaining momentum due to the ever increasing availability and use of the Internet. Organizations are also now adopting open source software, despite some reservations, in particular regarding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-27 Faheem Ahmed , Piers Campbell , Ahmad Jaffar , Luiz Fernando Capretz

The main goal of this document is to help the research community to understand the basic concepts of software distribution: Free software, Open source software, licenses. This document also includes a procedure for research software and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-09-12 Teresa Gomez-Diaz

This paper presents elements that form the structure of a network of data using secure stable and mature technologies that meet the requirement of having code free. The principle would be conflicting code open Tuesday where he wants to keep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-05-29 Luciana Guimaraes

Virtual file systems are a tool to centralize and mobilize a file system that could otherwise be complex and consist of multiple hierarchies, hard disks, and more. In this paper, we discuss the design of Unix-based file systems and how this…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Qin Sun , Grace McKenzie , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Modern operating systems all support multi-users that users could share a computer simultaneously and not affect each other. However, there are some limitations. For example, privacy problem exists that users are visible to each other in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Wenzhe Zhang , Kai Lu , Ruibo Wang , Wanqing Chi , Mingtian Shao , Huijun Wu , Mikel Luján , Xiaoping Wang

All computer programs have flaws, some of which can be exploited to gain unauthorized access to computer systems. We conducted a field study on publicly reported vulnerabilities affecting three open source software projects in widespread…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Raul Barbosa , Frederico Cerveira , Luis Goncalo , Henrique Madeira

Linux systems are integral to the infrastructure of modern computing environments, necessitating robust security measures to prevent unauthorized access. Privilege escalation attacks represent a significant threat, typically allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Andreas Happe , Jürgen Cito

We conduct a systematic literature review on the concept of trust in the worldwide software ecosystem. We acknowledge that trust is something between two actors in the software ecosystem, and we examine what role trust plays in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Fang Hou , Slinger Jansen

Money is a technology for promoting economic prosperity. Over history money has become increasingly abstract, it used to be hardware, gold coins and the like, now it is mostly software, data structures located in banks. Here I propose the…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-08-03 Ross D. King

Operational Technology (OT) is an integral component of critical national infrastructure, enabling automation and control in industries such as energy, manufacturing, and transportation. However, OT networks, systems, and devices have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Matthew Rodda , Vasilios Mavroudis

With the phenomenal growth in the Internet, network security has become an integral part of computer and information security. In order to come up with measures that make networks more secure, it is important to learn about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Natarajan Meghanathan

Accurately assessing software vulnerabilities is essential for effective prioritization and remediation. While various scoring systems exist to support this task, their differing goals, methodologies and outputs often lead to inconsistent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Viktoria Koscinski , Mark Nelson , Ahmet Okutan , Robert Falso , Mehdi Mirakhorli

For modern critical systems, it is necessary to consider their ability to avoid catastrophic behavior following fortuitous events such as internal failures in hardware components, environmental disturbances or even involuntary human error…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-01-20 Walter Schon

Software security requirements have been traditionally considered as a non-functional attribute of the software. However, as more software started to provide services online, existing mechanisms of using firewalls and other hardware to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Asif Imran

In computational science and in computer science, research software is a central asset for research. Computational science is the application of computer science and software engineering principles to solving scientific problems, whereas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Wilhelm Hasselbring , Leslie Carr , Simon Hettrick , Heather Packer , Thanassis Tiropanis

In computer science, there is a distinction between closed systems, whose behavior is totally determined in advance, and open systems, that are systems maintaining a constant interaction with an unspecified environment. Closed systems are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Axel Legay , Marco Faella

OS compromise is one of the most serious computer security problems today, but still not being resolved. Although people proposed different kinds of methods, they could not be accepted by most users who are non-expert due to the lack of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Zhiyong Shan

Security holds an important role in a software. Most people are not aware of the significance of security in software system and tend to assume that they will be fine without security in their software systems. However, the lack of security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Ariessa Davaindran Lingham , Nelson Tang Kwong Kin , Chen Wan Jing , Chong Heng Loong , Fatima-tuz-Zahra