The portfolio construction problem usually has been viewed in the framework of risk-return trade-off. Using deterministic and stochastic portfolio models used to solve the problem lead to unrealistic results as both the expected return rate and the risk are vague. Moreover, the decision maker frequently deals with insufficient data when selecting a portfolio. Using fuzzy models allows removal o...

Stack-based attacks typically require that attackers have a good understanding of the stack layout of the victim program. In this paper, we leverage specific features on ARM architecture and propose a practical technique that introduces randomness to the stack layout when an Android application executes. We employ minimal binary rewriting on the Android app that produces randomized executable o...

Since smartphones are usually personal devices full of private information, they are a popular target for a vast variety of real-world attacks such as Code Reuse Attack (CRA). CRAs enable attackers to execute any arbitrary algorithm on a device without injecting an executable code. Since the standard platform for mobile devices is ARM architecture, we concentrate on available ARM-based CRAs. Cu...

As new code-based defense technologies emerge, attackers move to data-only malware, which is capable of infecting a system without introducing any new code. To manipulate the control ow without code, data-only malware inserts a control data structure into the system, for example in the form of a ROP chain, which enables it to combine existing instructions into a new malicious program. Current s...

Functional programming is a programming paradigm like object-oriented programming and logic programming. Functional programming comprises both a specific programming style and a class of programming languages that encourage and support this programming style. Functional programming enables the programmer to describe an algorithm on a high-level, in terms of the problem domain, without having to...

Characteristics of the Poincaré return times are considered in a one-dimensional cubic map with a chaotic nonhyperbolic attractor. Two approaches, local one (Kac’s theorem) and global one related with the AP-dimension estimation of return times, are used. The return times characteristics are studied in the presence of external noise. The characteristics of Poincaré recurrences are compared with...