Interstellar: Fully Partitioned and Efficient Security Monitoring Hardware Near a Processor Core for Protecting Systems against Attacks on Privileged Software [to appear]

Yongho Song, Byeongsu Woo, Youngkwang Han, Brent Byunghoon Kang

In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2024 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Optimus: association-based dynamic system call filtering for container attack surface reduction

Seungyong Yang, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Jaehyun Nam

Journal of Cloud Computing (JCC) 2024 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Software Supply Chain Security Guidance

Contributed by Minjoon Park, Changil Lim, Changjo Yun, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Ministry of Science and ICT, and National Intelligence Service, and Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government [PDF]

GENESIS: A Generalizable, Efficient, and Secure Intra-kernel Privilege Separation

Seongman Lee, Seoye Kim, Chihyun Song, Byeongsu Woo, Eunyeong Ahn, Junsu Lee, Yeongjin Jang, Jinsoo Jang, Hojoon Lee, Brent Byunghoon Kang

In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC) 2024 [PDF]

SuM: Efficient shadow stack protection on ARM Cortex-M

Wonwoo Choi, Minjae Seo, Seongman Lee, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2023 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

EnclaveVPN: Toward Optimized Utilization of Enclave Page Cache and Practical Performance of Data Plane for Security-Enhanced Cloud VPN

Jaemin Park, Brent Byunghoon Kang

The 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2023 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Towards scalable and configurable simulation for disaggregated architecture

Daegyeong Kim, Wonwoo Choi, Chang-il Lim, Eunjin Kim, Geonwoo Kim, Yongho Song, Junsu Lee, Youngkwang Han, Hojoon Lee, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT) 2023 [PDF] [BIBTEX] [SOURCE]

Harnessing the x86 Intermediate Rings for Intra-Process Isolation

Hojoon Lee, Chihyun Song, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2022 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

3rdParTEE: Securing Third-party IoT Services using the Trusted Execution Environment

Jinsoo Jang, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

EmuID: Detecting presence of emulation through microarchitectural characteristic on ARM

Yeseul Choi, Yunjong Jeong, Daehee Jang, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Hojoon Lee

Computers & Security 2022 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

SaVioR: Thwarting Stack-Based Memory Safety Violations by Randomizing Stack Layout

Seongman Lee, Hyeonwoo Kang, Jinsoo Jang, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2021 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Agamotto: Accelerating Kernel Driver Fuzzing with Lightweight Virtual Machine Checkpoints

Dokyung Song, Felicitas Hetzelt, Jonghwan Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Michael Franz

20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2020) [PDF] [BIBTEX]

AI-HydRa: Advanced Hybrid Approach using Random Forest and Deep Learning for Malware Classification

Suyeon Yoo,Sungjin Kim, Seungjae Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Information Sciences 2020 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

SelMon: Reinforcing Mobile Device Security with Self-protected Trust Anchor

Jinsoo Jang, Brent Byunghoon Kang

ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. (MobiSys) 2020 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Best Paper Honorable Mention

Value-based Constraint Control Flow Integrity

Dongjae Jung, Minsu Kim, Jinsoo Jang, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Access 2020 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

The Image Game: Exploit Kit Detection Based on Recursive Convolutional Neural Networks

Suyeon Yoo, Sungjin Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Access 2020 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

On the Analysis of Byte-Granularity Heap Randomization

Daehee Jang, Jonghwan Kim, Hojoon Lee, Minjoon Park, Yunjong Jung, Minsu Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2019 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Rethinking Anti-Emulation Techniques for Large-Scale Software Deployment

Daehee Jang, Yunjong Jeong, Seongman Lee, Minjoon Park, Kuenhwan Kwak, Donguk Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2019 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

POLaR: Per-allocation Object Layout Randomization

Jonghwan Kim, Daehee Jang, Yunjong Jeong, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2019 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Revisiting the ARM Debug Facility for OS Kernel Security

Jinsoo Jang and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2019 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

In-process Memory Isolation Using Hardware Watchpoint

Jinsoo Jang and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2019 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Securing a communication channel for the trusted execution environment

Jinsoo Jang and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2019 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

SGX-LEGO: Fine-grained SGX controlled-channel attack and its countermeasure

Deokjin Kim, Daehee Jang, Minjoon Park, Yunjong Jeong, Jonghwan Kim, Seokjin Choi, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2018 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Lord of the x86 Rings: A Portable User Mode Privilege Separation Architecture on x86

Hojoon Lee, Chihyun Song, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Domain Isolated Kernel: A lightweightsandbox for untrusted kernel extensions

Valentin J.M. Manes, Daehee Jang, Chanho Ryu, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2018 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

FriSM: Malicious Exploit Kit Detection via a Feature-based String-Similarity Matching

Sungjin Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2018) [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Malicious URL protection based on attackers' habitual behavioral analysis

Sungjin Kim, Jinkook Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2018 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Retrofitting the Partially Privileged Mode for TEE Communication Channel Protection

Jinsoo Jang and Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2018 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

A Dynamic Per-context Verification of Kernel Address Integrity from External Monitors

Hojoon Lee, Minsoo Kim, Yunheung Paek, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2018 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Domain Isolated Kernel: A lightweight sandbox for untrusted kernel extensions

Valentin J.M. Man`es, Daehee Jang, Chanho Ryu, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2018 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Hacking in Darkness: Return-oriented Programming against Secure Enclaves

Jaehyuk Lee, Jinsoo Jang, Yeongjin Jang, Nohyun Kwak, Yeseul Choi, Changho Choi, Taesoo Kim, Marcus Peinado, Brent Byunghoon Kang

17th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2017) [PDF] [BIBTEX]

S-OpenSGX: A System-level Platform for Exploring SGX Enclave-Based Computing

Changho Choi, Nohyun Kwak, Jinsoo Jang, Daehee Jang, Kuenwhee Oh, Kyungsoo Kwag, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2017 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

KI-Mon ARM: A Hardware-assisted Event-triggered Monitoring Platform for Mutable Kernel Object

Hojoon Lee, Hyungon Moon, Ingoo Heo, Daehee Jang, Jinsoo Jang, Kihwan Kim, Yunheung Paek, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2017 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Invi-server: Reducing the attack surfaces by making protected server invisible on networks

Jaehyun Park, Jiseong Noh, Myungchul Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang

Computers & Security 2017 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

PrivateZone: Providing a Private Execution Environment using ARM TrustZone

Jinsoo Jang, Changho Choi, Jaehyuk Lee, Nohyun Kwak, Seongman Lee, Yeseul Choi, Brent Byunghoon Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2016 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

On-demand Bootstrapping Mechanism for Isolated Cryptographic Operations on Commodity Accelerators

Yonggon Kim, Ohmin Kwon, Jinsoo Jang, Seongwook Jin, Hyeongboo Baek, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Hyunsoo Yoon

Computers & Security 2016 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

OpenSGX: An Open Platform for SGX Research

Prerit Jain, Soham Desai, Seongmin Kim, Ming-Wei Shih,

JaeHyuk Lee, Changho Choi, Young Shin, Taesoo Kim, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Dongsu Han

23nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2016 (15.4%)  [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Vulnerabilities of network OS and mitigation with state-based permission system

Jiseong Noh, Seunghyeo Lee, Jaehyun Park, Seungwon Shin, and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Security and Communication Networks 2015 [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Detecting and Preventing Kernel Rootkit Attacks with Bus Snooping

Hyungon Moon, Hojoon Lee, Ingoo Heo, Kihwan Kim, Yunheung Paek and Brent Byunghoon Kang 

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Implementing an Application Specific Instruction-set Processor for System Level Dynamic Program Analysis Engines

Ingoo Heo, Minsoo Kim, Yongje Lee, Changho Choi, Jinyong Lee, Brent Byunghoon Kang, and Yunheung Paek

ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Efficient Kernel Integrity Monitor Design for Commodity Mobile Application Processors

Ingoo Heo, Daehee Jang, Hyunggon Moon, Hansu Cho, Seungwook Lee, Brent Byunghoon Kang, and Yunheung Paek

Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science [PDF] [BIBTEX]

SeCReT: Secure Channel between Rich Execution Environment and Trusted Execution Environment 

Jinsoo Jang, Sunjune Kong, Minsoo Kim, Daegyeong Kim and Brent Byunghoon Kang 

22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2015 (Acceptance rate 16.6% (50/302)) [PDF] [BIBTEX] [PRESENTATION]

ATRA: Address Translation Redirection Attack against Hardware-based External Monitors 

Daehee Jang, Hojoon Lee, Minsoo Kim, Daehyeok Kim, Daegyeong Kim and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (Acceptance rate 19.5% (114/585)) [PDF] [BIBTEX] [PRESENTATION]

Rosemary: A Robust, Secure, and High-performance Network Operating System 

Seungwon Shin, Yongsoo Song, Taekyung Lee, Sangho Lee, Jaewoong Chung, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran†, Jiseong Noh and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (Acceptance rate 19.5% (114/585)) [PDF] [BIBTEX] 

KI-Mon: A Hardware-assisted Event-triggered Monitoring Platform for Mutable Kernel Object

Hojoon Lee, Hyungon Moon, Daehee Jang, Kihwan Kim, Jihoon Lee, Yunheung Paek and Brent Byunghoon Kang

13th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2013) (Acceptance rate: 15.9% (44/277)) [PDF] [BIBTEX] 

Vigilare: Toward Snoop-based Kernel Integrity Monitor. 

Hyungon Moon, Hojoon Lee, Jihoon Lee, Kihwan Kim, Yunheung Paek and Brent Byunghoon Kang

Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (Acceptance rates: 17.2%, 14%, 18.9%) [PDF] [BIBTEX] 

DoubleGuard: Detecting Intrusions In Multi-tier Web Applications. 

M. Le, A. Stavrou, B. Kang

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, July-Aug. 2012, Volume: 9, Issue: 4 Page(s): 512-525. 

[PDF] [BIBTEX] 

Identifying Users with Application-Specific Command Streams 

A. El-Masri, P. Likarish, H. Wechsler, B. Kang

Twelfth Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2014) July 2014, REGULAR paper. (Acceptance rate 47/161 = 29%) [PDF] [BIBTEX] 

Developing and Refining Infected-Host Enumeration Methods for Advanced Botnets

C. Nunnery and B. Kang

2012.12.25, Telecommunications Review, Vol. 22 Issue 6.

Entropy-Based Measurement of IP Address Inflation in the Waledac Botnet. 

R. Weaver, C. Nunnery, G. Singaraju, and B. Kang

CERT FloCon 2011 

Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet. 

B. Kang, E. Chan-Tin, C. Lee, J. Tyra, H. Kang, C. Nunnery, Z. Wadler, G. Sinclair, N. Hopper, D. Dagon and Y. Kim

ACM Symposium on Information, Computer & Communication Security (ASIACCS 2009) [PDF] [BIBTEX]

Hash History Approach for Reconciling Mutual Inconsistency

B. Kang, R. Wilensky, J. Kubiatowicz, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2003 (Acceptance rates: 17.7%, 17.7%, 13.8%) 

[PDF] [BIBTEX]

Network Support for Mobile Multimedia using a Self-adaptive Distributed Proxy

Z. Mao, H. So, B. Kang and R. Katz

Proceedings of 11th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), 2001 (Acceptance rates: 33.3%, 30.5%, 30%) 

[PDF] [BIBTEX]

Toward a Model of Self-administering Data

B. Kang and R. Wilensky

Proceedings of the first ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2001 (Acceptance rates: 30%, 25%, 33%)

[PDF] [BIBTEX]

Dissertation: “S2D2: A Framework for Scalable and Secure Optimistic Replication.”

B. Kang

Ph.D. Dissertation, 2004. UC Berkeley TechReport, UCB/CSD-04-1351, Committee: Robert Wilensky, John Kubiatowicz, Eric Brewer, and John Chuang Qualification Exam Area: Operating Systems (with Security) [PDF]

Utility Patent: "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A HIDDEN SERVER". 

Filed by George Mason University, January 12, 2012. 

Sole Inventor, Publication number: US 2012/0180127, Publication date: July 12, 2012 

Entropy-Based Measurement of IP Address Inflation in the Waledac Botnet

R. Weaver, C. Nunnery, G. Singaraju, and B. Kang, CERT/CC (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) Proceedings of FloCon 2011. [PDF]

Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Exploring the Idiosyncrasies of Botmaster Systems in a Multi-Tier Botnet Infrastructure. 

C. Nunnery, G. Sinclair and B. Kang

USENIX LEET 2010 [PDF]

The Waledac Protocol: The How and Why. 

G. Sinclair, C. Nunnery and B. Kang

IEEE Malware 2009 [PDF]

Tracking Email Reputation for Authenticated Sender Identities. 

G. Singaraju, J. Moss and B. Kang

CEAS 2008 [PDF]

Concord: A Secure Mobile Data Authorization Framework for Regulatory Compliance. 

G. Singaraju and B. Kang

LISA 2008 [PDF]

RepuScore: Collaborative Reputation Management Framework for Email Infrastructure. 

G. Singaraju and B. Kang

LISA 2007 [PDF]

Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Overview and Case Study. 

J. Grizzard, V. Sharma, C. Nunnery, B. Kang and D. Dagon. 

(Cited by 340 times since its publication in Fall 2007)

USENIX HOTBOTS 2007 [PDF]

Privilege Messaging: An Authorization Framework over Email Infrastructure

B. Kang , G. Singaraju, and S. Jain

USENIX 20th Large Installation System Administration Conference (USENIX LISA), 2006 [PDF]

RegColl: Centralized Registry Framework for Infrastructure System Management

B. Kang, V. Sharma, and P. Thanki

USENIX 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (USENIX LISA), 2005 [PDF]