Marcos Botacin, Daniela Oliveira and Fabrício Ceschin

USENIX Diversity Grant

Attending conferences is an important part of academic life, since researchers can get in touch with new trends and increase network relations for future partnerships. USENIX, one of biggest computer science associations,acknowledges such importance and provided the chance for some students to attend an USENIX conference for the first time. Read more…

Google Latin America Award

Among many initiatives, Google awards research work in promising fields developed in Latin America. Fabricio’s work was awarded in the machine learning category and proposed detecting concept drift in malware classifier. Concept drift is the name of the phenomenon which causes classifier’s accuracy to be reduced due to changes in Read more…

SECRET-FAU cooperation

SECRET and FAU have established a cooperation via the DAAD exchange program and have been exchanging experiences via researcher’s visits and joint research work. André have been visiting FAU in 2017 and Marcus in 2018. Anatoli, from FAU, visited SECRET in 2019. SECRET-FAU common interests are in mobile code security Read more…

SECRET-FICS Cooperation

The cooperation started in 2017 and resulted in a long-term collaboration still active in 2019. Based in André’s and Daniela’s common interests, the cooperation has been promoting joint lectures, visits and resulting in joint papers. Daniela visited UFPR in 2018 and presented her proposal of a framework for securing devices Read more…

What’s a SECRET?

As most public Brazilian universities, SECRET has 3 main goals: Research, Education & Development. Research Sandbox Development Windows Kernel Monitoring Linux SSDT Hooking Malware Analysis Longitudinal Malware Evaluations AntiVirus (AV) evaluations Malware Behavior Ontologies Hardware-Assisted Security Self Modifying Code detection Hardware Performance Counters (HPCs) profiling & deviation Memory Accesses Patterns Read more…

So You want to keep SECRET ?

SECRET is always looking for new students and collaborators: undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, independent researchers, and industry professionals. Since SECRET is an academic laboratory at Informatics Department (Dinf) from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR),, you need to enroll to UFPR to join us. Undergraduate Students: Computer Science course Read more…

We are SECRET!

SECRET is an academic laboratory at Informatics Department (Dinf) from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). We develop reserach at graduate level and teach students at undergraduate level. SECRET is lead by: Professor André Grégio, Computer Science assistant professor at Dinf/UFPR. SECRET research is currently conducted by: Marcus Botacin, researching Read more…

SECRET Sharing

SECRET is an academic laboratory at Informatics Department (Dinf) from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), developing research at graduate level and teaching students at undergraduate level. SECRET’s goal is to advance the state-of-the-art in computer security and widespread the developed solutions to protect as much users as possible,by both Read more…