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Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation is a security exploitation technique in which an attacker gains higher-level permissions or access rights within a system or network beyond those initially granted, enabling unauthorized control or resource access.

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Towards Taming Privilege-Escalation Attacks on Android

Sven Bugiel, Lucas Davi, Alexandra Dmitrienko et al. · 2012 · 340 citations

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Preventing privilege escalation

Niels Provos, M. Friedl, Peter Honeyman · USENIX Security Symposium · 2003 · 287 citations · Full text

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Privilege, Malice, and Intent

Oliver Wendell Holmes · Harvard Law Review · 1894 · 122 citations

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Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties

Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare et al. · Cognition · 2014 · 113 citations · Full text

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An adaptive and configurable protection framework against android privilege escalation threats

Yang Xu, Guojun Wang, Ju Ren et al. · Future Generation Computer Systems · 2018 · 56 citations

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Authors

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  1. CF
    Chun‐I Fan

    National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  2. YT
    Yi‐Fan Tseng

    National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  3. RH
    Ruei‐Hau Hsu

    National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  4. HS
    Hui-Po Su

    National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  5. HK
    Hiroaki Kikuchi

    Tokai University, Japan

    2 publications · 31 citations

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Institutions

39

  1. National Sun Yat-sen University

    Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    93 citations

  2. Meiji University

    Tokyo, Japan

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  3. Agency for Science, Technology and Research

    Singapore, Singapore

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  4. King Saud University

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    113 citations

  6. Guangzhou University

    Guangzhou, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    574 citations

  8. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    44 citations

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  1. USENIX Security Symposium

    Conference · 2 publications · 308 citations

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  2. International Journal of Information Security

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  3. Future Generation Computer Systems

    FGCS · 1 publications · 56 citations

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  4. Harvard Law Review

    1 publications · 122 citations

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  5. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

    TDSC · 1 publications · 20 citations

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