Crime risk evaluation within information sharing between the Police and community partners.
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Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Lawson, A., Scott, R., Schafer, B., & Fan, L. (2011)
Crime risk evaluation within information sharing between the Police and community partners. Information and Communications Technology Law, 20, 57-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2011.578922
The aim of this paper is to provide profiles for crimes which can be used to model the context for information sharing between the police and community partner organisations. ...
Performance and student perception evaluation of cloud-based virtualised security and digital forensics labs.
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Buchanan, W. J., Graves, J., Bose, N., Macfarlane, R., Davison, B., & Ludwiniak, R. (2011)
Performance and student perception evaluation of cloud-based virtualised security and digital forensics labs. HEA ICS Conference,
This paper focuses on the integration of virtualised environments within the teaching of computer security and digital forensics, and includes three case studies. The first ca...
An authentication protocol based on chaos and zero knowledge proof
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Major, W., Buchanan, W. J., & Ahmad, J. (2020)
An authentication protocol based on chaos and zero knowledge proof. Nonlinear Dynamics, 99, 3065-3087. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-020-05463-3
Port Knocking is a method for authenticating clients through a closed stance firewall, and authorising their requested actions, enabling severs to offer services to authentica...
Review and Critical Analysis of Privacy-preserving Infection Tracking and Contact Tracing
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Buchanan, W. J., Imran, M. A., Ur-Rehman, M., Zhang, L., Abbasi, Q. H., Chrysoulas, C., …Papadopoulos, P. (2020)
Review and Critical Analysis of Privacy-preserving Infection Tracking and Contact Tracing. Frontiers in Communications and Networks, https://doi.org/10.3389/frcmn.2020.583376
The outbreak of viruses have necessitated contact tracing and infection tracking methods. Despite various efforts, there is currently no standard scheme for the tracing and tr...
DNA and Plaintext Dependent Chaotic Visual Selective Image Encryption
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Khan, J. S., Boulila, W., Ahmad, J., Rubaiee, S., Rehman, A. U., Alroobaea, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2020)
DNA and Plaintext Dependent Chaotic Visual Selective Image Encryption. IEEE Access, 8, 159732-159744. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3020917
Visual selective image encryption can both improve the efficiency of the image encryption algorithm and reduce the frequency and severity of attacks against data. In this artic...
A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect
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Kim, T., Kumar, G., Saha, R., Rai, M. K., Buchanan, W. J., Thomas, R., & Alazab, M. (2020)
A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect. IEEE Access, 8, 96455-96467. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2995481
Blockchain is a technology used with the series of users in peer-to-peer transactions to utilize the usability properties of the immutable data records. The distributed nature...
Approaches to the classification of high entropy file fragments.
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Penrose, P., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2013)
Approaches to the classification of high entropy file fragments. Digital Investigation, 10(4), 372-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2013.08.004
In this paper we propose novel approaches to the problem of classifying high entropy file fragments. We achieve 97% correct classification for encrypted fragments and 78% for ...
Will quantum computers be the end of public key encryption?
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Buchanan, W., & Woodward, A. (2016)
Will quantum computers be the end of public key encryption?. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2016.1226650
The emergence of practical quantum computers poses a significant threat to the most popular public key cryptographic schemes in current use. While we know that the well-unders...
Launching Adversarial Attacks against Network Intrusion Detection Systems for IoT
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Papadopoulos, P., Thornewill Von Essen, O., Pitropakis, N., Chrysoulas, C., Mylonas, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021)
Launching Adversarial Attacks against Network Intrusion Detection Systems for IoT. Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 1(2), 252-273. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcp1020014
As the internet continues to be populated with new devices and emerging technologies, the attack surface grows exponentially. Technology is shifting towards a profit-driven In...
Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications
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Li, S., Romdhani, I., & Buchanan, W. (2016)
Password Pattern and Vulnerability Analysis for Web and Mobile Applications. ZTE Communications, 14, 32-36. https://doi.org/10.3969/j.issn.1673-5188.2016.S0.006
Text⁃based passwords are heavily used to defense for many web and mobile applications. In this paper, we investigated the patterns and vulnerabilities for both web and mobile ...