Measles as a real nowadays threat

Web Browser History Detection as a Real-World Privacy Threat

Web browser history detection using CSS visited styles has long been dismissed as an issue of marginal impact. However, due to recent changes in Web usage patterns, coupled with browser performance improvements, the long-standing issue has now become a significant threat to the privacy of Internet users. In this paper we analyze the impact of CSS-based history detection and demonstrate the feas...

Excessive Attenuation of Measles Virus as a Possible Cause of Failure in Measles Immunization

“Filoviruses”: a real pandemic threat?

Filoviruses are zoonotic and among the deadliest viruses known to mankind, with mortality rates in outbreaks reaching up to 90%. Despite numerous efforts to identify the host reservoir(s), the transmission cycle of filoviruses between the animal host(s) and humans remains unclear. The last decade has witnessed an increase in filovirus outbreaks with a changing epidemiology. The high mortality r...

Sigreturn oriented programming is a real threat

This paper shows that Sigreturn Oriented Programming (SROP), which consists of using calls to sigreturn to execute arbitrary code, is a powerful method for the development of exploits. This is demonstrated by developing two different kinds of SROP based exploits, one asterisk exploit which was already portrayed in the paper presenting SROP, and one novel exploit for a recently disclosed bug in ...

[Bird flu: a real or imaginary threat?].