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Prof Bill Buchanan

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School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

B.Buchanan@napier.ac.uk

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Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode

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Buchanan, W., Grierson, S., & Uribe, D. (2024)

Privacy-Aware Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Using Bilinear Group Accumulators in Batch Mode. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (226-233). https://doi.org/10.5220/0012454300003648

Biometric data is often highly sensitive, and a leak of this data can lead to serious privacy breaches. Some of the most sensitive of this type of data relates to the usage of...

Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Bhatti, D. S., Saleem, S., Ali, Z., Park, T., Suh, B., Kamran, A., …Kim, K. (2024)

Design and Evaluation of Memory Efficient Data Structure Scheme for Energy Drainage Attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Access, 12, 41499-41516. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3377144

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are deployed on a large scale and require protection from malicious energy drainage attacks, particularly those directed at the routing layer. T...

SkipGateNet: A Lightweight CNN-LSTM Hybrid Model with Learnable Skip Connections for Efficient Botnet Attack Detection in IoT

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Alshehri, M. S., Ahmad, J., Almakdi, S., Qathrady, M. A., Ghadi, Y. Y., & Buchanan, W. J. (2024)

SkipGateNet: A Lightweight CNN-LSTM Hybrid Model with Learnable Skip Connections for Efficient Botnet Attack Detection in IoT. IEEE Access, 12, https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3371992

The rise of Internet of Things (IoT) has led to increased security risks, particularly from botnet attacks that exploit IoT device vulnerabilities. This situation necessitates...

Start thinking in graphs: using graphs to address critical attack paths in a Microsoft cloud tenant

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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...

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

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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

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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

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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...

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Fragment Finder

Fragment Finder (FF) enables a new, high-speed approach to digital forensics. It is unique in that it will build a more efficient technical architecture for the creation, storage and use of hash signa...

Funder: Scottish Enterprise | Value: £228,757

Kulio Education Characters - online platform

Kulio Ltd and Edinburgh Napier University are planning to collaborate to create a new innovative application consisting of Kulio education characters. Children throughout local authorities are already...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Project Quaisten

To develop a question generator API to pull information from the web, based on defined questions types, confirming correct answers and implementing a process of question difficulty based on metrics ab...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,945

IMP

The collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Silver IMP aims to apply existing patent pending technology for targeted marketing, into secure working, where documents can only be access...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,983

Trust and Governance Integration into Living It Up (Sitekit)

Funder: Scottish Funding Council

Payfont, innovation voucher

SMART Grant proposal.

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,930

CM2000

The integration and analytics of data feeds from social care visiting, in order to improve health and social care.

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

First August - Real-time Cyber Tracking and Risk Assessment Tool

Prototype software and business case.

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

MiiCard

The project has resulted in a software prototype which demonstrates miiCard tags.

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

SHEDFINDERS

The development of an integrated product which scans data on remote sites, and then integrates into a central data site.

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,934

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Ransomware detection techniques using file-based analysis

Simon Davies | Director of Studies: Rich Macfarlane | Second Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity

Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos | Director of Studies: Dr Nick Pitropakis | Second Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Electromagnetic side-channel resilience against lightweight cryptography

Dr Nilupulee Gunathilake | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Identity and identification in an information society: Augmenting formal systems of identification with technological artefacts

Mr Will Abramson | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Dr Owen Lo

Advancing touch-based continuous authentication by automatically extracting user behaviours

Peter Aaby | Director of Studies: Dr Thomas Tan | Second Supervisor: Prof Ben Paechter

Utilising reduced file representations to facilitate fast contraband detection

The field of Digital Forensics has been facing scalability issues for the last 10 years, resulting in huge backlogs for la...

Dr Sean McKeown | Director of Studies: Dr Gordon Russell | Second Supervisor: Dr Petra Leimich

RESCUE: Evaluation of a fragmented secret share system in distributed cloud architecture

This work aims to address current problems of security within Cloud-based systems, as the risks in moving data i...

Dr Elo Ukwandu | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Dr Gordon Russell

Test-bed and evaluation of a home-based adverse event prediction infrastructure

The "Frailty Framework" is the development of a next generation health assessment and predictive analysis system. It will...

Adrian Smales | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

Forensic analysis of large capacity digital storage devices

Triage of large capacity digital devices

Philip Penrose | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Rich Macfarlane

Framework for evaluation of e-health platform and services

Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. This research proposes an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to pro...

Dr Owen Lo | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Prof Christoph Thuemmler

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Promising cyber security project supported by new Scottish Enterprise funding

20 September 2022

TrueDeploy, an exciting project from the School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment (SCEBE) at Edinburgh Napier University (ENU), has secured £199,952 in additional support from Scottish...

Double funding success for School of Computing

Two projects from Edinburgh Napier’s acclaimed School of Computing have won funding from a programme which develops innovative cyber security ideas for the commercial market. TrueDeploy and Trustd ar...

How working together delivered the key to unlocking the value of health data to European citizens

2 December 2019

Symphonic integrated into the EU Shield project, and which aims to share health care information across Europe, in a trusted way. Symphonic integrated a consent module which allows patient consent dat...

University Spin-out - Cyan Forensics - Wins at GovTech Summit 2019

18 November 2019

The third Cybersecurity spin-out from The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University was the winner at PitchGovTech as part of the GovTech Summit 2019.

University Spin-out Partners with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Cyan Forensics - the third Cybersecurity spin-out from The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University - is partnering with America’s National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Edinburgh Napier University has the greatest representation at the prestigious Scottish Cyber Awards

10 October 2018

Edinburgh Napier University has once more a great presence in the Scottish Cyber Awards, with six (direct and indirect finalists) in five categories.

Professor Opens Up on His Love of Edinburgh, Cryptography and Innovation

In an interview with Inspired Edinburgh in The Victorian Townhouse, Professor Bill Buchanan outlined his career and his university, along with his love of his home city, cryptography and innovation. T...

Professor Gives Evidence on Cyber Security and Health Care at Scottish Parliament

Professor Bill Buchanan was invited to present evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee at the Scottish Parliament on Cyber Security risks within Health Care in Scotland.

Judy Murray among Scots on honours list

Prof Bill Buchanan, head of Edinburgh Napier University's Cyber Academy, is made an OBE. He was recognised for his services to cyber security and innovation.

Distinguished Fellow To Talk on Real-Time Human Action Recognition

ICSA DVF Professor Nasser Kehtarnavaz will be speaking about “Real-Time Human Action Recognition via Simultaneous Utilization of Depth Images and Inertial Signals” on Monday 19 June at 10am at Edinbur...

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Cyber Security Master Class

Monday 11 April 12.00 - 15.00pm

Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) to provide Keynote Talk at Big Data in Cyber Security Conference

17 February 2016

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