Cyber Security Research under CFIT

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Cyber Security Research under CFIT

• S. Felix Wu
• Computer Science Department
• University of California, Davis
• wu_at_cs.ucdavis.edu
• http//seclab.cs.ucdavis.edu

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Security Research at UCD

• 20 Faculty members plus 40 PhD students
• Variety of cyber security research from
  cryptography, system, architecture, hardware
  software, society/community, to networking and
  distributed systems
• Only can highlight very few in this talk

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Prof. Hao Chen his PhD students
UDP Packets
Victim [phone]
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DETER/EMISTa national security test-bed
Internet BGP Playback
DETER
ipsec tunnels
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Todays Internet
FROMMR.CHEUNG PUI Hang Seng Bank Ltd Sai Wan Ho
Branch 171 Shaukiwan Road Hong Kong. Please
contact me on my personal box puicheungcheungpui_at_
yahoo.com Let me start by introducing myself. I
am Mr. Cheung Pui,director of operations of the
Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch. I have a
obscured business suggestion for you. Before the
U.S and Iraqi war our client Major Fadi Basem who
was with the Iraqi forces and also business man
made a numbered fixed deposit for 18
calendar months, with a value of Twenty Four
millions Five Hundred Thousand United State
Dollars only in my branch. Upon maturity several
notice was sent to him,
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Future Internet

• M from Cheung Pui
• ? Probably a spam
• M from Cheung Pui via GGCS mailing list
• ? Probably not interesting
• M from Cheung Pui via Felix Wu
• ? Better be more serious (at least I hope)

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Intel/UCD GENI workshop

• Global Environment for Network Innovation

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How to catch worms
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Minos/Dacoda

• Security-enhanced Virtual Machine
• Capturing Internet worms over public Internet for
  two years without ANY signatures
• Zero false positive and empirically zero false
  negative
• Control flow Hijack attacks

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Only one false positive
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Two DoD MURI awards

• Announced on March 7, 2007
• ARSENAL A Cross Layer Architecture for Secure
  Resilient Tactical Mobile ad hoc Networks
  (Mohapatra/Levitt/Wu)
• Helix A Self-Regenerative Architecture for the
  Incorruptible Enterprise (Chen/Rowe/Su/Wu)