Testing And Hardening IoT Devices Against the Mirai Botnet
Conference Proceeding
Kelly, C., Pitropakis, N., McKeown, S., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2020)
Testing And Hardening IoT Devices Against the Mirai Botnet. https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSecurity49315.2020.9138887
A large majority of cheap Internet of Things (IoT) devices that arrive brand new, and are configured with out-of-the-box settings, are not being properly secured by the manufa...
PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform
Journal Article
Abramson, W., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021)
PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform. Software Impacts, 9, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2021.100101
PyDentity lowers the entry barrier for parties interested in experimenting with the Hyperledger’s verifiable information exchange platform. It enables educators, developers an...
Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption
Conference Proceeding
Bowditch, W., Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Pitropakis, N., & Hall, A. J. (2020)
Privacy-preserving Surveillance Methods using Homomorphic Encryption. In ICISSP: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy. , (240-248). https://doi.org/10.5220/0008864902400248
Data analysis and machine learning methods often involve the processing of cleartext data, and where this could breach the rights to privacy. Increasingly, we must use encrypt...
Employing a Machine Learning Approach to Detect Combined Internet of Things Attacks Against Two Objective Functions Using a Novel Dataset
Journal Article
Foley, J., Moradpoor, N., & Ochen, H. (2020)
Employing a Machine Learning Approach to Detect Combined Internet of Things Attacks Against Two Objective Functions Using a Novel Dataset. Security and Communication Networks, 2020, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2804291
One of the important features of Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is Objective Function (OF). OF influences an IoT network in terms of routing strategie...
Scenario Analysis using Out-of-line Firewall Evaluation Framework.
Conference Proceeding
Saliou, L., Buchanan, W. J., Graves, J., & Munoz, J. (2007)
Scenario Analysis using Out-of-line Firewall Evaluation Framework
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks against corporate networks and assets are increasing, and their potential risk for future attacks is also a major concern. These a...
The increasing challenge for digital forensics
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J. (2015)
The increasing challenge for digital forensics. The Texas Investigator, 10-12
Over the past decade or so we have seen a massive increase in the usage of digital devices for evidence gathering in law enforcement, and the methods that we have used are typ...
Secure and Scalable Identity Management for the Aviation Industry
Presentation / Conference
Kintis, P., Kountouras, A., Pitropakis, N., Dagon, D., Antonakakis, M., Markou, C., & Buchner, P. (2017, May)
Secure and Scalable Identity Management for the Aviation Industry
No abstract available.
The future internet: a world of secret shares
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Lanc, D., Ukwandu, E., Fan, L., Russell, G., & Lo, O. (2015)
The future internet: a world of secret shares. Future Internet, 7(4), 445-464. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi7040445
The PKI infrastructure is crumbling, especially due to the lack of a strong understanding of how encryption actually works, and in threats around its implementation. This pape...
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland: A rapid review of the evidence and future considerations
Report
Collier, B., Horgan, S., Jones, R., & Shepherd, L. (2020)
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for cybercrime policing in Scotland: A rapid review of the evidence and future considerations. Edinburgh: Scottish Institute for Policing Research
This report is written with a Scottish audience in mind, but our conclusions are potentially relevant to changing police practices around the world. COVID-19 and the governmen...
A Secure Random Number Generator with Immunity and Propagation Characteristics for Cryptography Functions
Journal Article
Saha, R., Geetha, G., Kumar, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Kim, T. (2021)
A Secure Random Number Generator with Immunity and Propagation Characteristics for Cryptography Functions. Applied Sciences, 11(17), Article 8073. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11178073
Cryptographic algorithms and functions should possess some of the important functional requirements such as: non-linearity, resiliency, propagation and immunity. Several previ...