Computer Science Colloquium talk by Dr. Dickie George and Dr. Margaret Lospinuso
Dr. Dickie George and Dr. Margaret Lospinuso, both of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, will speak on "Detecting Malware with CodeDNA."
Malware attacks by external agents pose a continuing threat to government and commerce; information security costs are significant, and rising. CodeDNA is a scalable, shareable technology that facilitates community-based defense against malware attacks. CodeDNA has a significantly higher malware variant detection accuracy compared to other industry benchmarks. Attackers generally base new attacks on previously developed code; CodeDNA exploits this efficiency by reporting the codebase relationships between malware binaries. CodeDNA detects families of attacks and supports a navigable means of exploring attack family development, leading to rich insights and useful predictions about what a broad range of future zero-day attacks may look like, so that the defenders can detect them instantly.