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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...

WaterLeakage: A Stealthy Malware for Data Exfiltration on Industrial Control Systems Using Visual Channels

Conference Proceeding
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., & Russell, G. (2019)
WaterLeakage: A Stealthy Malware for Data Exfiltration on Industrial Control Systems Using Visual Channels. In Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA)https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCA.2019.8899564
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) have faced a growing number of threats over the past few years. Reliance on isolated controls networks or air-gapped computers is no longer a ...

PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System

Journal Article
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Maneru-Marin, I. (2019)
PLC Memory Attack Detection and Response in a Clean Water Supply System. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 26, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcip.2019.05.003
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are frequently used in manufacturing and critical infrastructures like water treatment, chemical plants, and transportation schemes. Citizens ...

A supervised energy monitoring-based machine learning approach for anomaly detection in a clean water supply system

Conference Proceeding
Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., & Russell, G. (2018)
A supervised energy monitoring-based machine learning approach for anomaly detection in a clean water supply system. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security 2018)https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberSecPODS.2018.8560683
Industrial Control Systems are part of our daily life in industries such as transportation, water, gas, oil, smart cities, and telecommunications. Technological development ov...

Two Communities, One Topic: Exploring the British Reddit community split based on perceived biases

Conference Proceeding
Clavie, B., & Moradpoor, N. (in press)
Two Communities, One Topic: Exploring the British Reddit community split based on perceived biases. In Proceedings of posters presented at 10th ACM Conference on Web Science
This article explores a perceived bias between two British reddit communities dedicated to discussing British politics.We analyse the popular sources favoured by each communit...

Employing machine learning techniques for detection and classification of phishing emails

Conference Proceeding
Moradpoor, N., Clavie, B., & Buchanan, B. (2018)
Employing machine learning techniques for detection and classification of phishing emails. In Proceedings of the IEEE Technically Sponsored Computing Conference 2017https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2017.8252096
A phishing email is a legitimate-looking email which is designed to fool the recipient into believing that it is a genuine email, and either reveals sensitive information or d...

A Learning-based Neural Network Model for the Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks

Journal Article
Sheykhkanloo, N. M. (2017)
A Learning-based Neural Network Model for the Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks. International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 7(2), 16-41. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijcwt.2017040102
Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) attack is a code injection technique where hackers inject SQL commands into a database via a vulnerable web application. Injected SQ...

A survey of Intrusion Detection System technologies

Conference Proceeding
Heenan, R., & Moradpoor, N. (2016)
A survey of Intrusion Detection System technologies. In PGCS 2016: The First Post Graduate Cyber Security Symposium – The Cyber Academy
This paper provides an overview of IDS types and how they work as well as configuration considerations and issues that affect them. Advanced methods of increasing the performa...

Introduction to Security Onion

Presentation / Conference
Heenan, R., & Moradpoor, N. (2016, May)
Introduction to Security Onion. Paper presented at Post Graduate Cyber Security (PGCS) symposium, Edinburgh
Security Onion is a Network Security Manager (NSM) platform that provides multiple Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) including Host IDS (HIDS) and Network IDS (NIDS). Many typ...

A Pattern Recognition Neural Network Model for Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks

Journal Article
Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo, N. (2015)
A Pattern Recognition Neural Network Model for Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks. International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, 9(6), 1443-1453
Thousands of organisations store important and confidential information related to them, their customers, and their business partners in databases all across the world. The st...