Security is a cross-disciplinary field and its concepts should be applied to multiple contexts. SECRET research is focused on systems security and covers the following platforms: Android Malware (Check an example Here) Linux Malware (Check an example Here) Windows Malware (Check an example Here)
A significant part of SECRET activities is to teach security fundamentals for undergraduate and graduate students. Check our some of SECRET courses. Introduction to Security Concepts (Check Here) Binary Monitoring Fundamentals (Check Here) Binary Exploitation (Check Here) Reverse Engineering Introduction (Check Here) Hardware-Assisted System Monitoring (Check Here)
Most part of SECRET research is dedicated to malware analysis and hardware-assisted security, tasks which heavily rely on kernel drivers, either by their privileged monitoring capabilities or by their hardware-software interface, so SECRET researchers are often programming kernel drivers. SECRET researchers have experience programming Windows x64 drivers. Check a basic Read more…
Malware is the main SECRET research line, thus SECRET researchers are often reverse engineering malware samples. A key SECRET principle is to strongly rely on in-house developed analysis tools. We here share a bit of the SECRET-developed tools. A daily task at SECRET is to perform binary static analysis to Read more…
As an academic laboratory, SECRET graduates Master and PhD students. More than papers, SECRET make the full-text of their dissertations and PhDs available online. If you are interested, check them here.
Academic papers are often published by specialized editorial companies, thus being available only for subscribers. Fortunately, authors have the right to archive their published papers in their own website. Therefore, if you want to access SECRET papers and you are not a publisher subscriber, click in the links button in Read more…
A key principle of science is reproducibility, for allowing both results confirmation (or disprove them) as well as applying the developed knowledge in benefit of the whole society. SECRET researchers believe that sharing knowledge is essential, thus the datasets used in SECRET’s research work are always made available as soon Read more…
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…
Promoted by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC), the Brazilian Symposium in Information and Systems Security (SBSEG) is the main Brazilian academic forum for security discussions and promotes a competition of the best Master and PhD work to promote the development of the security field in the country. Marcus Botacin’s work Read more…
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…