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Niels Provos
Researcher at Google
Publications - 62
Citations - 8304
Niels Provos is an academic researcher from Google. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Malware. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 62 publications receiving 8049 citations. Previous affiliations of Niels Provos include Center for Information Technology & University of Michigan.
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Hide and seek: an introduction to steganography
Niels Provos,Peter Honeyman +1 more
TL;DR: This article discusses existing steganographic systems and presents recent research in detecting them via statistical steganalysis and discusses the practical application of detection algorithms and the mechanisms for getting around them.
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A virtual honeypot framework
TL;DR: Honeyd is presented, a framework for virtual honeypots that simulates virtual computer systems at the network level and shows how the Honeyd framework helps in many areas of system security, e.g. detecting and disabling worms, distracting adversaries, or preventing the spread of spam email.
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Defending against statistical steganalysis
TL;DR: Improved methods for information hiding are presented and an a priori estimate is presented to determine the amount of data that can be hidden in the image while still being able to maintain frequency count based statistics.
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All your iFRAMEs point to Us
TL;DR: The relationship between the user browsing habits and exposure to malware, the techniques used to lure the user into the malware distribution networks, and the different properties of these networks are studied.
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The ghost in the browser analysis of web-based malware
TL;DR: This work identifies the four prevalent mechanisms used to inject malicious content on popular web sites: web server security, user contributed content, advertising and third-party widgets, and presents examples of abuse found on the Internet.