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

Conference Proceeding
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

Journal Article
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...

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 ...

A Probability Mapping-Based Privacy Preservation Method for Social Networks

Conference Proceeding
Li, Q., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Tan, Z., & Wang, C. (2024)
A Probability Mapping-Based Privacy Preservation Method for Social Networks. . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8_19
The mining and analysis of social networks can bring significant economic and social benefits. However, it also poses a risk of privacy leakages. Differential privacy is a de ...

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

Journal Article
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...

Reliable and Fair Trustworthiness Evaluation Protocol for Platoon Service Recommendation System

Journal Article
Cheng, H., Tan, Z., Zhang, X., & Liu, Y. (in press)
Reliable and Fair Trustworthiness Evaluation Protocol for Platoon Service Recommendation System. Chinese Journal of Electronics,
Aiming at the problems of the communication inefficiency and high energy consumption in vehicular networks, the platoon service recommendation systems (PSRS) are presented. Ma...

STIDNet: Identity-Aware Face Forgery Detection with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Distillation

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Fang, M., Yu, L., Xie, H., Tan, Q., Tan, Z., Hussain, A., …Tian, Z. (in press)
STIDNet: Identity-Aware Face Forgery Detection with Spatiotemporal Knowledge Distillation. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/tcss.2024.3356549
The impressive development of facial manipulation techniques has raised severe public concerns. Identity-aware methods, especially suitable for protecting celebrities, are see...

Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?

Conference Proceeding
Tahir, A., Tan, Z., & Babaagba, K. O. (2024)
Can Federated Models Be Rectified Through Learning Negative Gradients?. In Big Data Technologies and Applications (18-32). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52265-9_2
Federated Learning (FL) is a method to train machine learning (ML) models in a decentralised manner, while preserving the privacy of data from multiple clients. However, FL is...

Machine Un-learning: An Overview of Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions

Journal Article
Sai, S., Mittal, U., Chamola, V., Huang, K., Spinelli, I., Scardapane, S., …Hussain, A. (2024)
Machine Un-learning: An Overview of Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions. Cognitive Computation, 16, 482-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-023-10219-3
ML applications proliferate across various sectors. Large internet firms employ ML to train intelligent models using vast datasets, including sensitive user information. Howev...

Hybrid Threats, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare

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Ferrag, M. A., Kantzavelou, I., Maglaras, L., & Janicke, H. (Eds.)
(2024). Hybrid Threats, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003314721
Nowadays in cyberspace, there is a burst of information to which everyone has access. However, apart from the advantages the internet offers, it also hides numerous dangers fo...

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TruElect

2023 - 2025
This KTP project aims to building a trustworthy infrastructure for the voting process, including using trusted methods of citizen identity, voting sustation, and privacy preserving methods.
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £202,937

PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption)

2023 - 2026
This PhD studentship will be funded at £10k per year for a period of three years, and focus on homomorphic encryption in 5G / 6G network slices and strategies to foster and enhance federated structure...
Funder: 6G Health Institute GmbH | Value: £35,082

Evaluation of Federated Machine Unlearning using Membership Inference Attacks

2023 - 2026
Federated Learning (FL) is a type of distributed Machine Learning (ML) training technique that allows for accurate predictions without sharing sensitive data. This is possible, as FL allows everyone t...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £73,564

False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic

2023 - 2025
Fake news (inaccurate information) peaked during the pandemic with around 46 000 daily Twitter posts containing false information (Lupi, 2020). In Europe over 70% people regularly encounter fake news ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £19,931

TrueDeploy - Enterprise Fellowship

2023 - 2024
TrueDeploy is committed to providing secure and cost-effective software solutions by simplifying the development, supply, and security processes. Our solution offers tracking and accounting of each so...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £75,000

Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning

2023 - 2025
Speech enhancement and separation techniques are often used to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by background distractions, including speech and non-speech noises. We aim to ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £12,000

TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers

2023 - 2024
Organisations are facing an increasing number of cyber threats, which is making it evident that relying solely on security tools and technologies may fail to identify emerging threats, malware, and ot...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £31,386

TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1

2023 - 2023
The way in which we develop, supply, and secure software is often weak and lacks digital trust. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has r...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £31,818

Entrepreneur-in-Residence -John Innes 23/24 (SCEBE)

2023 - 2024
This is an EIR application for John Innes -this is for 1d a week from Jan 1st 2023 for 12 months. The money flows directly to the EIR.
Funder: Royal Society

TruElect

2022 - 2023
Democracy Counts is a market-leading organization that address the needs of global elections. With a deep understanding of international electoral systems, the company already provides international c...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £27,225

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Cryptography Artifact and Behavioural Analysis for Malware Detection

2021 - date
Leigh Turnbull | Director of Studies: Rich Macfarlane | Second Supervisor: Dr Gordon Russell

Ransomware detection techniques using file-based analysis

2020 - date
Simon Davies | Director of Studies: Rich Macfarlane | Second Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Privacy-preserving systems around security, trust and identity

2019 - 2022
Dr Pavlos Papadopoulos | Director of Studies: Dr Nick Pitropakis | Second Supervisor: Prof Bill Buchanan

Evaluation of engagement with hyperlocal e-participation systems by citizens and representatives

2019 - 2021
This work is concerned with the information practices associated with hyperlocal representation. The fin...
Dr Peter Cruickshank | Director of Studies: Prof Hazel Hall | Second Supervisor: Dr Kendall Richards

Electromagnetic side-channel resilience against lightweight cryptography

2018 - date
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

2018 - date
Mr Will Abramson | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Dr Owen Lo

Industrial control systems cybersecurity analysis and countermeasures

2017 - 2021
Andres Santiago Robles Durazno | Director of Studies: Dr Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo | Second Supervisor: James McWhinnie

Application of evolutionary machine learning in metamorphic malware analysis and detection

2017 - 2021
Dr Kehinde Babaagba | Director of Studies: Dr Thomas Tan | Second Supervisor: Prof Emma Hart

Efficient algorithms for MAC layer duty cycling and frame delivery in wireless sensor network

2016 - 2021
Dr Craig Thomson | Director of Studies: Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai | Second Supervisor: Dr Thomas Tan

Advancing touch-based continuous authentication by automatically extracting user behaviours

2016 - date
Peter Aaby | Director of Studies: Dr Thomas Tan | Second Supervisor: Prof Ben Paechter
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A Perform Storm Conference: Cyber Security and Law

16 May 2017
The Cyber Academy and MBM Commercial hosted a highly successful conference event with over 120 delegates which outlined some of the current issues of law and cyber security.

Hutchinson Networks Partnership Changing The World Through Innovation

2 February 2017
A partnership between Hutchinson Networks and The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh has been showcased in the application of SDN (Software Defined Networks) into health and social care, and in innovative Cyb...

International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security

19 December 2016
The Cyber Academy are to host the 2nd International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security on 10 May 2017 and this time the event will scale around the World, with an international collaboration acr...

Edinburgh Napier spin-out heads for London showcase

3 December 2016
Edinburgh is becoming one of the best cities in the World to be into tech, and this week one of Edinburgh Napier University's spin-outs - Cyan Forensics - represents the booming tech industry in the c...

Researchers Find New Ways To Investigate Big Data Infrastructures With Minimal Disruption

4 August 2016
Researchers, including Dr Petra Leimich, Prof Bill Buchanan and Josh Harrison, in The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier, have created a new way of analysing the traces of evidence left in the memory o...

Exciting New Collaboration with Hutchinson Networks

29 June 2016
Exciting New Collaboration with Hutchinson Networks Aims To Build A Virtual Bank For Advanced Security Operations Training

FBI to present on Big Data in Cyber Security at International Conference

31 March 2016
FBI to present on Big Data in Cyber Security at International Conference

Two out of Four Predictions for the Next Skyscanner Are Spin-outs from Edinburgh Napier

5 February 2016
Two out of Four Predictions for the Next Skyscanner Are Spin-outs from Edinburgh Napier