Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker

By W. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Aviel D. Rubin. 2003

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Timing Analysis of Keystrokes and Timing Attacks on SSH (2001, background): “This situation was aggravated through broadcast-based networks that were commonly used (e.g., Ethernet) which allowed a malicious user to eavesdrop on the network and to collect all communicated information [ CB94 , GS96].”
Analysis of an electronic voting system (2004, background): “Ideally the voting devices and their associated firewalls would be configured to accept no incoming connections [CBR03].”
Improving Host Security with System Call Policies (2003, background): “Firewalls can prevent remote login and restrict access, for example to a web server only [ 12 ].”
FIREMAN: a toolkit for firewall modeling and analysis (2006, background): “In addition, it is relatively easy to inject false routing messages [8].”
Analyzing inter-application communication in Android (2011, unknown): “[9].”
Semantically Rich Application-Centric Security in Android (2009, background): “One can view Saint policy as being similar to a network-level stateful firewall [9].”