Malicious Code Reverse Engineering and Analysis (MCREA)
The use of anti-reverse engineering techniques in malicious codes is increasing the skill and time it takes to mitigate the effects of the code. The information and tools produced through this project will enable analysts to more rapidly devise effective responses to new malicious codes as they are released to the Internet.

This project will deliver reference reports describing the implementation of anti-reverse engineering techniques, the detection of those techniques when used in binary codes, and how those techniques can be circumvented. From this research a proof-of-concept analysis tool will be created demonstrating the detection and circumvention of anti-reverse engineering techniques in binary applications run under Microsoft Windows.
 
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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.