Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant
Journal Article
Elmiger, M., Lemoudden, M., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024)
Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant. International Journal of Information Security, 23, 467-485. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00751-6
The challenge of securing IT environments has reached a new complexity level as a growing number of organisations adopt cloud solutions. This trend increases the possibility o...
Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation
Journal Article
Wang, F., Xie, M., Tan, Z., Li, Q., & Wang, C. (2024)
Preserving Differential Privacy in Deep Learning Based on Feature Relevance Region Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 12(1), 307 - 315. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETC.2023.3244174
In the era of big data, deep learning techniques provide intelligent solutions for various problems in real-life scenarios. However, deep neural networks depend on large-scale...
Towards The Creation Of The Future Fish Farm
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Papadopoulos, P., Buchanan, W. J., Sayeed, S., & Pitropakis, N. (2023)
Towards The Creation Of The Future Fish Farm. Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety, 4, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.20517/jsss.2022.16
Aim: A fish farm is an area where fish raise and bred for food. Fish farm environments support the care and management of seafood within a controlled environment. Over the pas...
Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions
Journal Article
Hasselgren, B., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023)
Using Social Media & Sentiment Analysis to Make Investment Decisions. Future Internet, 15(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi15010005
Making investment decisions by utilizing sentiment data from social media (SM) is starting to become a more tangible concept. There has been a broad investigation into this fi...
A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage
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Holmes, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023)
A framework for live host-based Bitcoin wallet forensics and triage. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 44, Article 301486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2022.301486
Organised crime and cybercriminals use Bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency, to launder money and move it across borders with impunity. The UK and other countries have legislatio...
Hamming Distributions of Popular Perceptual Hashing Techniques
Journal Article
McKeown, S., & Buchanan, W. J. (in press)
Hamming Distributions of Popular Perceptual Hashing Techniques. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation,
Content-based file matching has been widely deployed for decades, largely for the detection of sources of copyright infringement, extremist materials, and abusive sexual media...
Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification
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Davies, S., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. (2022)
Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1503. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101503
Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target’s data remains encrypted and is held captive by ...
Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform
Journal Article
Ali, H., Ahmad, J., Jaroucheh, Z., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Lo, O., …Buchanan, W. J. (2022)
Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing in Practice and Performance Benchmarking through the Hyperledger Fabric Platform. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1379. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101379
Historically, threat information sharing has relied on manual modelling and centralised network systems, which can be inefficient, insecure, and prone to errors. Alternatively...
Ensemble learning-based IDS for sensors telemetry data in IoT networks
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Naz, N., Khan, M. A., Alsuhibany, S. A., Diyan, M., Tan, Z., Khan, M. A., & Ahmad, J. (2022)
Ensemble learning-based IDS for sensors telemetry data in IoT networks. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 19(10), 10550-10580. https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2022493
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that connects a range of physical smart devices to provide ubiquitous services to individuals and automate their daily tasks. IoT de...
A novel flow-vector generation approach for malicious traffic detection
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Hou, J., Liu, F., Lu, H., Tan, Z., Zhuang, X., & Tian, Z. (2022)
A novel flow-vector generation approach for malicious traffic detection. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 169, 72-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2022.06.004
Malicious traffic detection is one of the most important parts of cyber security. The approaches of using the flow as the detection object are recognized as effective. Benefit...