An empirical assessment of the perception of computer security between US and Korea: Focused on rootkits

Proceedings - SERA 2007: Fifth ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 887-891

  Hwang, Ha Jin ^a  

^a Catholic University of Daegu   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Malware; Rootkit; Spyware; Virus

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MALWARE; ROOTKITS; SPYWARE KNOWLEDGE;

COMPUTER VIRUSES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; STUDENTS; SURVEYS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 38649133161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SERA.2007.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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