Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Amount

$799,998.00

Award Date

7/20/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Concurrency-related vulnerabilities are pervasive in modern computing systems. Concurrency exploits include time-of-check-to-time-of-use (TOCTTOU) race conditions in file systems, attacks on signal handlers, and evasive malware that uses concurrency to es