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Symbolic String Verification: An Automata-based Approach
Fang Yu, Tevfik Bultan, Marco Cova, Oscar H. Ibarra
15th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software
Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2008
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[Springer]
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There Is No Free Phish: An Analysis of "Free" and Live Phishing Kits
Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT)
San Jose, CA, USA, July 2008
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[USENIX]
In the press: MarkMonitor, Sunbelt Blog, honeyblog, InfosecEvents, InformationWeek, The Tech Herald, Infosecurity.US, SC Magazine, ZDNet, The Register, UCSB CS News
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Are Your Votes Really Counted? Testing the Security of Real-world Electronic Voting Systems
Davide Balzarotti, Greg Banks, Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Richard Kemmerer, William Robertson, Fredrik Valeur, Giovanni Vigna
ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
Seattle, WA, USA, July 2008
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[ACM Press]
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ClearShot: Eavesdropping on Keyboard Input from Video
Davide Balzarotti, Marco Cova, Giovanni Vigna
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Oakland, CA, USA, May 2008
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[IEEE Computer Society Press]
In the press: PCWorld, Geeks are sexy, IntelFusion
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Saner: Composing Static and Dynamic Analysis to Validate Sanitization in Web Applications
Davide Balzarotti, Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Nenad Jovanovic, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda, Giovanni Vigna
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Oakland, CA, USA, May 2008
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[IEEE Computer Society Press]
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Multi-Module Vulnerability Analysis of Web-based Applications
Davide Balzarotti, Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Giovanni Vigna
14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Alexandria, VA, USA, October 2007
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[ACM Press]
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Vulnerability Analysis of Web-Based Applications
Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Giovanni Vigna
L. Baresi and E. Di Nitto (Eds.),
Test and Analysis of Web Services
September 2007
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[Springer]
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Swaddler: An Approach for the Anomaly-based Detection of State Violations in Web Applications
Marco Cova, Davide Balzarotti, Viktoria Felmetsger, Giovanni Vigna
10th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID)
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, September 2007
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[Springer]
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Static Detection of Vulnerabilities in x86 Executables
Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Greg Banks, Giovanni Vigna
22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
Miami, FL, USA, December 2006
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[IEEE Computer Society Press]
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SNOOZE: toward a Stateful NetwOrk prOtocol fuzZEr
Greg Banks, Marco Cova, Viktoria Felmetsger, Kevin C. Almeroth, Richard A. Kemmerer, Giovanni Vigna
9th Information Security Conference (ISC)
Samos, Greece, August 2006
[PDF]
[BibTeX]
[Springer]
- LinSTAT: An Intrusion Detection System for Linux
Marco CovaLaurea thesis, Università di Bologna, 2003 (first chapter in Italian, others in English)
[PDF] [slides (in Italian)]
Before defecting to the field of security, I delved in
the problem of
emergent semantics at ITC-irst.
Some of my work appears in the articles listed below.
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Language Games: Solving the Vocabulary Problem in Multi-Case-Base Reasoning
Paolo Avesani, Conor Hayes, Marco Cova
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR), pp. 35–49, August 23–26, 2005, Chicago, USA
[abstract] [PDF] [BibTeX]
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Language Games: Learning Shared Concepts among Distributed Information Agents
Conor Hayes, Paolo Avesani, Marco Cova
Proceedings of the 1st IJCAI workshop on Multi-Agent Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems, pp. 11–17, July 31, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland
[abstract] [PDF]
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Learning Contextualized Weblog Topics
Paolo Avesani, Marco Cova, Conor Hayes, Paolo Massa
Proceedings of the 2nd WWW workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, May 10, 2005, Chiba, Japan
[abstract] [PDF]
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Shared Lexicon for Distributed Annotations on the Web
Paolo Avesani, Marco Cova
Proceedings of the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), pp. 207–214, May 10–14, 2005, Chiba, Japan
[abstract] [PDF] [BibTeX]
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A Service Oriented Architecture for Advertising Games (short paper)
Paolo Avesani, Marco Cova, Roberto Tiella, Arun Sharma
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), November 15–18, 2004, New York City, NY, USA
[abstract] [PDF] [slides] [BibTeX]