Defending DRAM for data safety and security in the cloud with Dr. Stefan Saroiu
Dynamic random-access memory – or DRAM – is the most popular form of volatile computer memory in the world but it’s particularly susceptible to Rowhammer, an adversarial attack that can cause data loss and security exploits in everything from smart…
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Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft’s Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory… to spot malware
Boffins in Microsoft Research has pulled the covers off Project Freta, a free service aimed at spotting memory malfeasance. A technology demonstration named for the street in Warsaw, Poland where Marie Curie was born, Freta comes from the NExT Security…
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First look: Microsoft’s Project Freta detects Linux malware for free
Microsoft Research has announced a cloud-based malware detection service called Project Freta to detect rootkits, cryptominers, and previously undetected malware strains lurking in your Linux cloud VM images.
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Microsoft’s Free Cloud Rootkit Sweeper is Hitting Some Sweet Spots
“What would happen if a commercial cloud could guarantee the capture of malware, no matter how expensive or exotic, in volatile memory?” Microsoft has built an absolute behemoth of a cloud virtual machine (VM) security tool from scratch in Rust*…
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ACL 2020 Announces Best Paper & Test-Of-Time Awards
Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Senior Researcher, was awarded the ACL 2020 Best Overall Paper Award (opens in new tab) for Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList paper with co-authors Tongshuang Wu, University of Washington, Carlos Guestrin and Sameer Singh,…
What began as a Hackathon project over five years ago, the Immersive Reader has grown into a product that is used by more than 23 million people every month, all around the world. By helping students of all ages learn…
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Microsoft Research Develops Invisible Cloud Malware Scanner
Microsoft Research has developed a system called Project Freta to do scan thousands of virtual cloud machines for malware. It has launched the project as a prototype for public use. Virtual machines (VMs) are software versions of computers that run…
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Microsoft Project Freta Promises to Stop Azure Malware
Microsoft yesterday revealed Project Freta, a new Microsoft Research development that is a virtual-machine (VM) forensics platform. Users will be able to leverage Freta to find malicious software on cloud infrastructure.
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Microsoft’s Project Freta: This new free service spots rootkits lurking in cloud VMs
The new Microsoft Research project hopes to automate virtual-machine forensics in the cloud. Microsoft has unveiled Project Freta (opens in new tab), a potential future virtual-machine (VM) forensics service that will allow anyone to automatically ferret out malicious software hiding in…