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Password, Authentication and Cryptography.- A Quantum Physics approach for enabling Informationtheoretic Secure Communication Channels.- Learning framework for guessing alphanumeric passwords on mobile phones based on user context and fragment semantics.- Password Managers and Vault Application Security and Forensics: Research Challenges and Future Opportunities.- Lattice-based Secret Sharing Scheme (Chinese Remainder Theorem).- A PUF based Audio Fingerprint Based for Device Authentication and Tamper Location.- SHIELD: a Specialized Dataset for Hybrid Blind Forensics of World Leaders.- Vulnerabilities.- Optir-SBERT: Cross-architecture binary code similarity detection based on optimized LLVM IR.- SdShield: Effectively Ensuring Heap Security via Shadow Page Table.- Unraveling Network-based Pivoting Maneuvers: Empirical Insights and Challenges.- XSS vulnerability test enhancement for Progressive Web Applications.- Detection of Targeted Attacks using Medium-Interaction Honeypot for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.- Power Analysis Attack Based on BS-XGboost Scheme.- Security Analysis of Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, and Authy.- Cybersecurity and forensics.- APTBert: Abstract Generation and Event Extraction from APT Reports.- Assessing the Effectiveness of Deception-Based Cyber Defense with CyberBattleSim.- DynVMDroid: Android App Protection via Code Disorder and Dynamic Recovery.- Improvement of An Identity-Based Aggregate Signature Protocol From Lattice.- A Measurement Study on Interprocess Code Propagation of Malicious Software.- An Android Malware Detection Method Based on Optimized Feature Extraction Using Graph Convolutional Network.- ForensiQ: A Knowledge Graph Question Answering System for IoT Forensics.- I've Got You, Under MySkin: Biohacking Augmentation Implant Forensics.- Quantum Computing Challenges and Impact on Cyber Security.

This book journeys through the labyrinth of usable privacy, a place where the interplay of privacy and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) reveals a myriad of challenges, solutions, and new possibilities. Establishing a solid understanding of usable privacy research, practices, and challenges, the book illuminates for readers the often shadowy corridors of such a multifaceted domain and offers guidelines and solutions to successfully traverse the challenging maze. The book does not simply focus on data protection or legislative frameworks but also on what it takes for privacy to be safeguarded, understood, embraced, and easily practiced by all. It begins with a thorough exploration of the background of privacy tools and technologies, the evolution of privacy rules and regulations, and the backdrop upon which this narrative unfolds. After establishing this context, its next important focus is the current state and future directions of the field, including thefrontiers of usable privacy research in relation to the Internet of Things (IoT), usability of PETs, and usable privacy for UX and software developers. The book also considers the often-overlooked privacy narratives of marginalized communities and delves into the complexities of user-centric privacy. Readers are provided with a blueprint for addressing these hurdles and establishing pathways for a more privacy-conscious world. The text will be of interest to students studying Computer Science, Information Systems, or Law, as well as researchers and practitioners working in the fields of usable privacy, privacy by design, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), or HCI. All will benefit from the book's central deliberation of a question that echoes through time and technological advancements: why does usable privacy matter?

The 9 volume set LNCS 15484-15492 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2024, which took place in Kolkata, India, during December 9-13, 2024.The 127 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 433 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Advances Primitives; homomorphic encryption; digital signatures; public-key cryptography; pairing-based cryptography, threshold cryptography; isogeny-based cryptography; post-quantum cryptography; secure data structures; lattice-based cryptography; lattice assumptions; key exchange protocols; succinct arguments; verifiable computation, zero-knowledge protocols; secure multiparty computation; blockchain protocols; information theoretic cryptography; secret sharing; security against physical attacks; cryptanalysis on symmetric-key schemes; cryptanalysis on public-key schemes; fault attacks and side-channel analysis; cryptanalysis on various problems; quantum cryptanalysis; quantum cryptography; symmetric-key cryptography.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2024, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2024, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during November 16-19, 2024.The 6 full papers and 2 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 10 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: research track; application track; and short paper track.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Emerging Networking Architecture and Technologies, ICENAT 2022, held in Shenzhen, China, in October 2022.The 50 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 106 submissions. The volume focuses on the latest achievements in the field of emerging network technologies, covering the topics of emerging networking architecture, network frontier technologies, industry network applications and so on.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2023, which was held in October/November 2023 in Augusta, GA, USA.The 25 papers presented were thoroughly revised and selected from the 54 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Schemes I; Basic Primitives; Security; MPC with Cards; Blockchain; MPC and Secret Sharing; Schemes II.

This book teaches readers how wireless networks work, why some of their properties impact wireless network performance at the application level, and what both network engineers and application developers can do to cope with these challenges. Internet users increasingly rely on wireless access links for diverse tasks such as web browsing, video conferencing, interactive games, and data sharing. Irrespective of how they access the Internet, they expect good performance and a high quality of experience. Unfortunately, wireless access networks are much more challenging to build than wired networks. In wired networks, signals used for communication are contained in a carefully engineered transmission medium. In contrast, wireless signals travel in our physical environment, where the presence of obstacles, interference, and mobility can affect communication. In addition, network performance can differ significantly across physical environments. As a result, the performance of wireless links is often lower and less predictable than that of wired links. The author structured the book according to the layers in the Internet protocol stack, similar to traditional network books. However, rather than presenting a general description of each layer, the focus is on wireless networks and how they differ from wired networks.

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This book deals with analysis techniques for TCP, UDP, Web, and SOAP data transmission performance on the IoT cloud side, CSMA-type, and multi-hop data transmission performance on the IoT edge side, as well as gateway receives buffer and transmit packet assembly data transmission performance.As mathematical tools for the analysis of communication performance, universal analysis methods such as stochastic processes, queues, Markov processes, and communication traffic simulators are applied to actual examples, and their usage is described in detail. This book aims to provide lifelong skills for analyzing communication performance that will serve as the basis for the future evolution of the IoT.

Perfectly-secure cryptography is a branch of information-theoretic cryptography. A perfectly-secure cryptosystem guarantees that the malicious third party cannot guess anything regarding the plain text or the key, even in the case of full access to the cipher text. Despite this advantage, there are only a few real-world implementations of perfect secrecy due to some well-known limitations. Any simple, straightforward modeling can pave the way for further advancements in the implementation, especially in environments with time and resource constraints such as IoT. This book takes one step towards this goal via presenting a hybrid combinatorial-Boolean model for perfectly-secure cryptography in IoT. In this book, we first present an introduction to information-theoretic cryptography as well as perfect secrecy and its real-world implementations. Then we take a systematic approach to highlight information-theoretic cryptography as a convergence point for existing trends in research on cryptography in IoT. Then we investigate combinatorial and Boolean cryptography and show how they are seen almost everywhere in the ecosystem and the life cycle of information-theoretic IoT cryptography. We finally model perfect secrecy in IoT using Boolean functions, and map the Boolean functions to simple, well-studied combinatorial designs like Latin squares.This book is organized in two parts. The first part studie s information-theoretic cryptography and the promise it holds for cryptography in IoT. The second part separately discusses combinatorial and Boolean cryptography, and then presents the hybrid combinatorial-Boolean model for perfect secrecy in IoT.

This book covers selected research works presented at the fifth International Conference on Networking, Information Systems and Security (NISS 2022), organized by the Research Center for Data and Information Sciences at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Republic of Indonesia, and Moroccan Mediterranean Association of Sciences and Sustainable Development, Morocco, during March 30-31, 2022, hosted in online mode in Bandung, Indonesia. Building on the successful history of the conference series in the recent four years, this book aims to present the paramount role of connecting researchers around the world to disseminate and share new ideas in intelligent information systems, cyber-security, and networking technologies. The 49 chapters presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. They focus on delivering intelligent solutions through leveraging advanced information systems, networking, and security for competitive advantage and cost savings in modern industrial sectors as well as public, business, and education sectors. Authors are eminent academicians, scientists, researchers, and scholars in their respective fields from across the world.

1 Describes the latest work on the attribution problem to help identify culprits of cyber-attacks 2 Describes how a variety of subfields of computer science are applied to cyber-security including artificial intelligence, game theory, programming languages, and graph theory 3 Fully referenced4 Features chapters by leading scientists in the field

The book explores how modern technologies, including artificial intelligence and neural networks, are being used to enhance cybersecurity. In today's world, the development of the Internet is nothing short of transformative, affecting every aspect of our lives. Ensuring the safety of its users is a paramount concern, and it requires a diverse set of disciplines to address. Researchers from various fields, including IT, mathematics, psychology, and medicine, are collectively working to tackle this interdisciplinary challenge. The significance of this issue has been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many aspects of our lives into the digital realm, from online payments to remote work and education. This shift brought new security challenges, with data privacy and system integrity taking center stage. It delves into the intricacies of Big Data by having to analyze an immense volume of network traffic data that can only be effectively analyzed with specialized tools. Real-time threat detection is critical, and the book sheds light on cutting-edge approaches to achieving this goal. The content of the book covers a broad spectrum of topics related to IT system security, from user and system profiling to preventing data leaks and defending against phishing attacks. Additionally, innovative concepts such as "glial networks" are introduced, offering new ways to interpret knowledge stored in convolutional networks. These solutions are not limited to security alone; they have applications across various domains. The book highlights the advantages of these cutting-edge approaches over existing methods, demonstrating their relevance to large corporations, public institutions, schools, small businesses, and households. In a world where security threats are constantly evolving, this book is a valuable resource for understanding the dynamic landscape of network security and the role of artificial intelligence in safeguarding our digital ecosystems.

The proposed book will provide a comprehensive picture of the journey from 5G networks towards 6G. Different aspects, ranging from theoretical foundations to existing platforms and technologies will be presented and analysed, by critically highlighting the real opportunities and the challenges. The first chapters are to describe the general "transitioning" aspects from 5G to 6G. After that, an overview on the different technologies is provided, to present at the end the security aspects, the new applications and an analysis of the electromagnetic exposure, above all in terms of comparative in respect of 5G. Security and Application will be straightforward better explained after the big picture on the different technologies is detailed in the previous chapters. 6G is an emerging complex paradigm, with some important new concepts, that would enable an extremely high reliability and low latency. The main purpose is to provide the reader a thorough vision of the enabling technologies, their potential and what is still needed to fill the gap in terms of sustainability and coexistence of the different technologies. Since different emerging technologies will be considered and detailed in the book, it will be interesting for the reader to infer the major opportunities of each and the main limitations. This kind of information will mainly boost the potential interactions of different technologies to provide a more reliable system.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic exploration of next-generation Edge Intelligence (EI) Networks. It delves deep into the critical design considerations within this context, emphasizing the necessity for functional and dependable interactions between networking strategies and the diverse application scenarios. This should help assist to encompass a wide range of environments.This book also discusses topics such as resource optimization, incentive mechanisms, channel prediction and cutting-edge technologies, which includes digital twins and advanced machine learning techniques. It underscores the importance of functional integration to facilitate meaningful collaborations between networks and systems, while operating across heterogeneous environments aiming support novel and disruptive human-oriented services and applications. Valuable insights into the stringent requirements for intelligence capabilities, communication latency and real-time response are discussed. This characterizes the new EI era, driving the creation of comprehensive cross-domain architectural ecosystems that infuse human-like intelligence into every aspect of emerging EI systems.This book primarily targets advanced-level students as well as postdoctoral researchers, who are new to this field and are searching for a comprehensive understanding of emerging EI systems. Practitioners seeking guidance in the development and implementation of EI systems in practical contexts will also benefit from this book.

The three-volume proceedings set LNCS 14997-14999 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2024, held in Qindao, China, during June 21-23, 2024.The 98 full papers and 10 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 301 submissions. They focus on cutting-edge ideas, research findings, and innovative solutions in the dynamic intersection of wireless technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) computing systems.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 19th EAI International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2023, held in October 2023.The 78 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. They are organized in these topical sections: Part I: E-Health networks; transportation networks; reliability and scalability; E-Health networks II; artificial intelligence and machine learning I; networks and applications.Part II: Robustness; Network Security and Privacy; Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE); Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning II; Autonomous Vehicles.

The 9 volume set LNCS 15484-15492 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2024, which took place in Kolkata, India, during December 9-13, 2024.The 127 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 433 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Advances Primitives; homomorphic encryption; digital signatures; public-key cryptography; pairing-based cryptography, threshold cryptography; isogeny-based cryptography; post-quantum cryptography; secure data structures; lattice-based cryptography; lattice assumptions; key exchange protocols; succinct arguments; verifiable computation, zero-knowledge protocols; secure multiparty computation; blockchain protocols; information theoretic cryptography; secret sharing; security against physical attacks; cryptanalysis on symmetric-key schemes; cryptanalysis on public-key schemes; fault attacks and side-channel analysis; cryptanalysis on various problems; quantum cryptanalysis; quantum cryptography; symmetric-key cryptography.

Introduction.- Background on Machine Learning Techniques.- Security Policy earning.- Software Security Analysis.- Hardware Security Analysis.- Detection.- Attack Management.- Case Studies.- Main Challenges in the Use of ML for Security.- Concluding Remarks.

This textbook describes the theory and methodology of digital forensic examinations, presenting examples developed in collaboration with police authorities to ensure relevance to real-world practice. The coverage includes discussions on forensic artifacts and constraints, as well as forensic tools used for law enforcement and in the corporate sector. Emphasis is placed on reinforcing sound forensic thinking, and gaining experience in common tasks through hands-on exercises.This enhanced third edition describes practical digital forensics with open-source tools and includes an outline of current challenges and research directions.Topics and features:Outlines what computer forensics is, and what it can do, as well as what its limitations areDiscusses both the theoretical foundations and the fundamentals of forensic methodologyReviews broad principles that are applicable worldwideExplains how to find and interpret several important artifactsDescribes free and open-source software toolsFeatures content on corporate forensics, ethics, SQLite databases, triage, and memory analysisIncludes new supporting video lectures on YouTubeThis easy-to-follow primer is an essential resource for students of computer forensics, and will also serve as a valuable reference for practitioners seeking instruction on performing forensic examinations.