Cambridge, Tampere and Turku	Posted by Mikko @ 07:58 GMT

On the topic of Universities and academic research… here are two recently published theses that are relevant to antivirus research.

• Mikko Suominen's master's thesis from the University of Turku:
  Searching for Win32 File Infectors — The Possibilities and Limitations of Static Structural Heuristics
  Full disclosure: Mikko works in Helsinki Response lab nowadays.
  
  
• Timo Hirvonen's Bachelor of Science thesis from the Tampere University of Technology:
  Antireversing Techniques
  Full disclosure: Timo's reverse engineering examples in the thesis include three infamous Assembly Khallenge programs written by Kamil from our lab.

 

Interesting stuff.

Then the bad news; only the summaries of these documents are in English. Sorry.

And while we're still on the topic: I'll be giving a lecture at Cambridge University next week. Hey, that's going to look nice on my bio.

Drop by if you're in the neighborhood. More info from talks.cam.ac.uk.



Signing off,
Mikko