Danfeng (Daphne) Yao and collaborator Naren Ramakrishnan, both professors in the department of computer science , think they have devised a technique by which any program can be protected from even the slyest hacker “by observing a program’s execution traces and/or analyzing executables.” Yao explained, “In our work entitled “Unearthing Stealthy Program Attacks Buried in Extremely Long Execution Paths” presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security [CCS 2015, held in October in Denver], we constructed such a behavioral model through data mining and learning methods on function- and system-call traces.”
