DocumentCode
3494010
Title
Windows 8 32 bit — Improved security?
Author
Corregedor, Manuel ; Von Solms, Sebastiaan
Author_Institution
Acad. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Univ. of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
fYear
2013
fDate
9-12 Sept. 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
5
Abstract
The malware problem is one that has been around for many years and for which there is still no solution. Statistics indicate that anti-malware products, although becoming more advanced, are not adequately addressing the problem of malware. The prior is evident due to the increase in the number of infection rates and new malware samples being discovered daily. Microsoft recently released its latest Operating System called Windows 8. In this paper we test Windows 8 in order to identify any security vulnerabilities that might exist that could be exploited by malware. We then propose solutions for the identified vulnerabilities.
Keywords
invasive software; operating systems (computers); Windows 8; anti-malware products; malware problem; operating system; security vulnerabilities identification; Kernel; Malware; Message systems; Testing; Vulnerabilities; anti-malware; malware;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
AFRICON, 2013
Conference_Location
Pointe-Aux-Piments
ISSN
2153-0025
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-5940-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/AFRCON.2013.6757678
Filename
6757678
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