User:Iberiam

Assistant Professor of the Universidade dos Açores (UAc), in Açores, Portugal. I am a Ph.D student in Informatics at the Faculdade de Ciências of Universidade de Lisboa. My research area is software security and my work is about detection and correction of web applications vulnerabilities. Since my master degree I have been working in source code static analysis, more precisely taint analysis, to detect vulnerabilities in source code. I have also been using data mining and machine learning to refine the detection made by taint analysis and to minimize the false positives rate. I am also a researcher at LaSIGE research unit and member of the Navigators Group. My mains research interests are software security, security, computer networks and cloud computing. In 2008 I have finished my M.Sc on Detection of Integer Vulnerabilities in Software Portability from 32 to 64 bits, advised by Professor Miguel Pupo Correia. My thesis' contribution was a study on integer vulnerabilities in applications written in C language when they are ported from 32 to 64 bits, without any code adaptations. The main idea was use source code static analysis, using taint analysis, to find this type of vulnerabilities that originate, for example, buffer overflows, if any adaption in source code of applications written to 32 bits processors is not realized and these applications are ported to 64 bits processors.