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Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering

Correlation and fusion of intrusion alerts to provide effective Situation Awareness of cyber-attacks has become an active area of research. Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection sensor. For many networks and their system administrators, the alerts generated by Snort are the primary indicators of network misuse and attacker...

Tags: Snort, Clustering, University At Buffalo, Intrusion, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Viruses And Worms, Networking

White papers 2007-12-01

SpyCon: Emulating User Activities to Detect Evasive Spyware

The success of any spyware is determined by its ability to evade detection. Although traditional detection methodologies employing signature and anomaly based systems have had reasonable success, new class of spyware programs emerge which blend in with user activities to avoid detection. One of the latest anti-spyware technologies consists of...

Tags: University At Buffalo, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Data Mining, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2007-02-14

On the Hardness of Minimum Cost Blocking Attacks on Multi-Path Wireless Routing Protocols

This paper demonstrates the provable superiority of multi-path routing protocols over other conventional protocols against blocking, node-isolation and network-partitioning type-attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks WMNs by emulating adversarial behavior. Though the underlying network model is of a WMN with mobile nodes, the results in this paper are equally applicable to...

Tags: Network, University At Buffalo, Attack, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2006-08-29

Cars back on Main Street?

Imagine you're a city planner and that you're in charge of reintroducing cars in your downtown area after an absence of 20 years. How would you measure the impact on pedestrians or downtown stores? How would you evaluate the coexistence between a light rail rapid transit system and private cars?...

Tags: Main Street, downtown

Blog posts 2006-08-10

IT Investment Strategy

The 90's saw a period of unprecedented creativity and investment in IT, launched by the emergence of the Internet as a widespread mass communication medium; the World Wide Web as a means of linking textual "pages"; the search engine; the rapid reduction in prices of computer workstations; and the adoption...

Tags: Information Technology, IT Investment, University At Buffalo, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2005-12-12

SWAN: A Secure Wireless LAN Architecture

Existing Wireless LAN WLAN security schemes are few and product specific. While there exist some schemes for Information Integrity related problems, there are few standard solutions for Quality of Service and Network Health Maintenance related problems in Wireless Networks. This paper proposes an architecture model for Secure WLANs that is...

Tags: Network, WLAN, University At Buffalo, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

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Can assistive technology save computing?

Computing is becoming an old man's game. (Picture from the University of Buffalo. Go Bulls.) Last year just 8,000 people graduated with computing majors, nationwide, the lowest figure in years. Can assistive technology turn that around? Michael Buckley at the University of Buffalo thinks...

Tags: Computing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Virtual reality frog dissection software

Computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have developed V-Frog, the world's first virtual-reality-based frog dissection software designed for biology education. Contrary to previous virtual frog dissection kits, this software is a real simulation product. As says one researcher, 'other products out there are multi-media, not true virtual reality.' And...

Tags: Software, Biology, Student, Technology, V-Frog, Tools & Techniques, Virtual Reality, Management, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-11

A Mac-to-school guide

A Mac-to-school guideSorryBut an Ivy League student's opinion about what computer is the best won't go very far - considering parents can get a PC notebook or desktop for half of the price of a Mac. Save the TCO arguement, it's all about upfront cost to a parent. ...

Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Macintosh, computer, Vista WOW, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

An autonomous anti-cancer drug

As you probably know, researchers have been working for a while to find more efficient ways to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to their targets. But instead of finding a new drug carrier, why not focusing on a drug that knows its path to the target and which delivers itself to...

Tags: HPPH, cell

Blog posts 2007-03-16

My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 3

My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 3Macbooks & WiFiLet me guess, the router you want to connect to is LinkSys...As a recent convert from XP to OSX via a Macbook I can tell you that all is not well in the land of WiFi. Some access points/routers, esp. Linksys are...

Tags: Notebooks, Routers & switches, NETWORKING, Network technology, operating system, Apple MacBook, router, network, Linksys Inc., Apple Macintosh, Internet Connect, Apple MacBook Pro

Discussion threads 2007-01-13

Wireless sensors to monitor power grids

Major power outages like the ones which affected the New York state last month or Western Europe ten days ago are becoming more frequent -- even if their causes were different. In some cases, the utility companies have to dispatch electricians all over the place to discover the cause of...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Wireless &, Telecom, Energy &, Environment, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2006-11-08

Research: Sperm quality inversely proportional to cell phone usage

Research: Sperm quality inversely proportional to cell phone usageOn the other hand.Nokia and Motorolla can now market cell phones as birth control devices. The teenage boys will buy in droves :-)uh-oh...somebody better tell Matthew Miller, ZDnet's "Mobile Gadgeteer", to start lining his pockets with tinfoil.;-)Microwave damage to spermThey die...

Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, cell phone, phone

Discussion threads 2006-10-30

Walt Disney World 'fingerprinting' visitors: Magic Kingdom, or Mickey Mouse?

In “The moving finger” fellow ZDNet blogger Ed Gottsman notes the University of Buffalo VR Lab has developed “a cap for your index finger that is exquisitely sensitive to movement–to the point that it can actually be used as a 3D digitizer.”Developed by the lab’s director, Kesh Kesavadas, and alum...

Tags: LightPrint

Blog posts 2006-09-04

The moving finger

The University of Buffalo's VR lab has developed a cap for your index finger that is exquisitely sensitive to movement--to the point that it can actually be used as a 3D digitizer. It has an accelerometer, a force sensor, and a motion tracker, and its developers believe it'll hit the...

Tags: Cellular phones, cap

Blog posts 2006-09-04

SUNYConnect puts 60 libraries on the same network

The State University of New York unveiled its new shared online library system today. SUNYConnect will give 60 campus libraries across the state access to more than 18 million volumes and thousands of electronic resources and digital images, Buffalo Business First reports. The system will allow all SUNY faculty...

Tags: SUNY Libraries, SUNYConnect

Blog posts 2006-08-08

The next computer interface: your finger

A new haptic device will be shown at the next SIGGRAPH. This virtual reality system, the Fingertip Digitizer, has been developed at the University of Buffalo UB. It will interpret your hand gestures and will translate them for your PC, medical devices or computer games. According to one developer, the...

Tags: computer, Fingertip Digitizer

Blog posts 2006-07-29

Shock absorbers for woodhouses

In November 2006, a 73,000-pound, 1,800-square-foot woodhouse will be subjected to the equivalent of a very powerful earthquake... in a lab. This house will be equipped with shock absorbers installed horizontally throughout its walls. The experiment will be recorded with the help of 250 sensors installed throughout the house and...

Tags: shock absorber, NEESWood Project, This House

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Higher blogging

As part of today's coverage of education blogging, the Washington Post interviewed Alexander Halavais, graduate director of informatics at the State University of New York's University at Buffalo. Halavais uses blogging extensively in his classes. A few choice bits: The first semester I used a blog, one of...

Tags: blog, blogging

Blog posts 2006-04-04

Supreme Court won't hear spam appeal

Supreme Court won't hear spam appealI love it when.......a company has to sue in order to be able to even advertise its so-called product or service. Maybe that's a sign that you need to come up with a different business venture? Maybe?And since when do college students living on a...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Social Security, Spaming, e-mail, spam, e-mail address

Discussion threads 2006-01-09