Peter Aaby
Peter Aaby

Peter Aaby

Research Student

Biography

Peter has 6 years of experience setting up corporate and campus network infrastructure, during employment as an IT technician prior to his academic career. He then progressed to an IT Networking HND degree at Business Academy Aarhus in Denmark, where he was rewarded for his good fellowship amongst students, together with excellent grades for his final internship project at Bankdata 2014. Following this, Peter was accepted into 3rd year of the BEng (Hons) degree in Computer Security and Forensics at Edinburgh Napier University. Alongside his studies he has been simultaneously working on projects around the university’s Cyber Academy and cooperating on innovative ideas with SME’s. In early 2015 he displayed excellent understanding within Cipher-cracking while representing the university, by winning the “2015 Universally Challenge Cyber Security Competition”. Later Peter also appeared as an expert on the BBC Panorama’s episode “How Hackers Steal your Identity”, helping to devise a British Broadband website as a challenge to former criminal hackers. Peter is also the co-founder of ENU Cyber Security Society, with the core role of engaging students socially around academic topics such as penetration testing, hardware security and digital forensics.

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PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework

Journal Article
Mckeown, S., Aaby, P., & Steyven, A. (2024)
PHASER: Perceptual Hashing Algorithms Evaluation and Results -an Open Source Forensic Framework. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 48(Supplement), Article 301680
The automated comparison of visual content is a contemporary solution to scale the detection of illegal media and extremist material, both for detection on individual devices ...

Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour

Conference Proceeding
Aaby, P., Giuffrida, M. V., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2020)
Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour. In 2020 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech49142.2020.00023
In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of 30 features used in touch-based continuous authentication. It is essential to identify the most significant features for e...

Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset

Conference Proceeding
Aaby, P., Mata De Acuña, J. J., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018)
Privacy Parameter Variation using RAPPOR on a Malware Dataset. In Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-18), (8). https://doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00133
Stricter data protection regulations and the poor application of privacy protection techniques have resulted in a requirement for data-driven companies to adopt new methods of...

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