William J Buchanan

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∙ 05/30/2023

Majority Voting Approach to Ransomware Detection

Crypto-ransomware remains a significant threat to governments and compan...

0 Simon R. Davies, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/26/2023

Review of the NIST Light-weight Cryptography Finalists

Since 2016, NIST has been assessing lightweight encryption methods, and,...

0 William J Buchanan, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/02/2023

Towards The Creation Of The Future Fish Farm

A fish farm is an area where fish raise and bred for food. Fish farm env...

0 Pavlos Papadopoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2022

Hamming Distributions of Popular Perceptual Hashing Techniques

Content-based file matching has been widely deployed for decades, largel...

0 Sean McKeown, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/06/2022

The Future of Integrated Digital Governance in the EU: EBSI and GLASS

In the past, citizen identity has been used within siloed data areas, an...

0 William J Buchanan, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/07/2022

A DNA Based Colour Image Encryption Scheme Using A Convolutional Autoencoder

With the advancement in technology, digital images can easily be transmi...

0 Fawad Ahmed, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/24/2022

Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification

Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to ...

0 Simon R. Davies, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/16/2022

GLASS: A Citizen-Centric Distributed Data-Sharing Model within an e-Governance Architecture

E-governance is a process that aims to enhance a government's ability to...

0 Owen Lo, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/07/2022

Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services

Ransomware has become an increasingly popular type of malware across the...

0 Grant McDonald, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/20/2022

NapierOne: A modern mixed file data set alternative to Govdocs1

It was found when reviewing the ransomware detection research literature...

0 Simon R. Davies, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/22/2021

Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attack Resilience against PRESENT Lightweight Block Cipher

Lightweight cryptography is a novel diversion from conventional cryptogr...

0 Nilupulee A. Gunathilake, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/19/2021

Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates

The COVID-19 pandemic has recently emerged as a worldwide health emergen...

0 Mwrwan Abubakar, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/19/2021

Privacy-preserving and Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing using Distributed Ledgers

Threat information sharing is considered as one of the proactive defensi...

0 Hisham Ali, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/06/2021

PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching

The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for a robust contact tra...

0 William Abramson, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/03/2021

A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports

Digital vaccine passports are one of the main solutions which would allo...

0 Masoud Barati, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/05/2021

Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure

Little or no research has been directed to analysis and researching fore...

0 Edward Henry Young, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/17/2021

GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS

The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bure...

0 Christos Chrysoulas, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/29/2021

Electromagnetic Analysis of an Ultra-Lightweight Cipher: PRESENT

Side-channel attacks are an unpredictable risk factor in cryptography. T...

0 Nilupulee A. Gunathilake, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/28/2021

Differential Area Analysis for Ransomware Attack Detection within Mixed File Datasets

The threat from ransomware continues to grow both in the number of affec...

0 Simon R. Davies, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/26/2021

Launching Adversarial Attacks against Network Intrusion Detection Systems for IoT

As the internet continues to be populated with new devices and emerging ...

20 Pavlos Papadopoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/29/2021

Privacy and Trust Redefined in Federated Machine Learning

A common privacy issue in traditional machine learning is that data need...

0 Pavlos Papadopoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/10/2021

An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks

In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the amount of Inte...

0 Andrew Churcher, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/15/2020

Evaluation of Live Forensic Techniques in Ransomware Attack Mitigation

Memory was captured from a system infected by ransomware and its content...

0 Simon R. Davies, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/18/2020

A Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Framework Using Hyperledger Fabric

Electronic health record (EHR) management systems require the adoption o...

0 Charalampos Stamatellis, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/10/2020

Review and Critical Analysis of Privacy-preserving Infection Tracking and Contact Tracing

The outbreak of viruses have necessitated contact tracing and infection ...

0 William J Buchanan, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/28/2020

TRUSTD: Combat Fake Content using Blockchain and Collective Signature Technologies

The growing trend of sharing news/contents, through social media platfor...

0 Zakwan Jaroucheh, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/15/2020

SklCoin: Toward a Scalable Proof-of-Stake and Collective Signature Based Consensus Protocol for Strong Consistency in Blockchain

The proof-of-work consensus protocol suffers from two main limitations: ...

0 Zakwan Jaroucheh, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/14/2020

Privacy Preserving Passive DNS

The Domain Name System (DNS) was created to resolve the IP addresses of ...

0 Pavlos Papadopoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/10/2020

Decentralized Accessibility of e-commerce Products through Blockchain Technology

A distributed and transparent ledger system is considered for various e-...

0 Gulshan Kumara, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/26/2020

Trust-by-Design: Evaluating Issues and Perceptions within Clinical Passporting

A substantial administrative burden is placed on healthcare professional...

0 Will Abramson, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/03/2020

A Distributed Trust Framework for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

When training a machine learning model, it is standard procedure for the...

0 Will Abramson, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/01/2020

Fast Probabilistic Consensus with Weighted Votes

The fast probabilistic consensus (FPC) is a voting consensus protocol th...

1 Sebastian Müller, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/13/2020

Phishing URL Detection Through Top-level Domain Analysis: A Descriptive Approach

Phishing is considered to be one of the most prevalent cyber-attacks bec...

0 Orestis Christou, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/12/2020

Wi-Fi Channel Saturation as a Mechanism to Improve Passive Capture of Bluetooth Through Channel Usage Restriction

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology that provides audio and d...

0 Ian Lowe, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/22/2020

An authentication protocol based on chaos and zero knowledge proof

Port Knocking is a method for authenticating clients through a closed st...

0 Will Major, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/29/2019

The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime

We increasingly live in a world where there is a balance between the rig...

0 Simon Dyson, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/27/2019

Discovering Encrypted Bot and Ransomware Payloads Through Memory Inspection Without A Priori Knowledge

Malware writers frequently try to hide the activities of their agents wi...

0 Peter McLaren, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/27/2019

Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis

There can be performance and vulnerability concerns with block ciphers, ...

0 Peter McLaren, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/26/2019

Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus (PARSEC) Version 2.0

In this paper we present an open source, fully asynchronous, leaderless ...

0 Pierre Chevalier, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/25/2019

Machine learning and semantic analysis of in-game chat for cyberbullying

One major problem with cyberbullying research is the lack of data, since...

0 Shane Murnion, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/25/2019

Decrypting live SSH traffic in virtual environments

Decrypting and inspecting encrypted malicious communications may assist ...

0 Peter McLaren, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/24/2019

Privacy Parameter Variation Using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset

Stricter data protection regulations and the poor application of privacy...

0 Peter Aaby, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/24/2019

A Forensic Audit of the Tor Browser Bundle

The increasing use of encrypted data within file storage and in network ...

0 Matt Muir, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/24/2019

Predicting Malicious Insider Threat Scenarios Using Organizational Data and a Heterogeneous Stack-Classifier

Insider threats continue to present a major challenge for the informatio...

0 Adam James Hall, et al. ∙

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