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c Riverside Research Will Help Protect Military Software From Hackers
University of California, Riverside researchers are working to secure outdated federal legacy systems.
Credit: UCR Today
Several federal government agencies have outdated computers and software, which means their networks could be vulnerable to cyberattack. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) say they are trying to solve this problem by securing legacy systems that are still important.
The researchers will focus on how to "harden" software code to prevent vulnerabilities from being exploited by attackers, which could involve removing some functions from legacy software that are not used.
Although the team will not actually gain access to U.S. Department of Defense and other classified systems, they note they will use readily available software programs to develop a prototype and method for securing similar legacy systems used in government.
"The goal is really to push the boundaries for binary analysis," says UCR professor Heng Yin. "This is the biggest challenge for us--to really push our analysis capability much further than the current status."
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