NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data
Journal Article
Buchanan, W., Munoz, J., Abimbola, A., Abimbola, A., Munoz, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2006)
NetHost-Sensor: Investigating the capture of end-to-end encrypted intrusive data. Computers and Security, 25(6), 445-451. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2006.04.001
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are systems that protect against violation of data integrity, confidentiality and availability of resources. In the past 20 years, these sys...
Lightweighted and energy-aware MIKEY-Ticket for e-health applications in the context of internet of things
Journal Article
Abdmeziem, M. R., Tandjaoui, D., & Romdhani, I. (2018)
Lightweighted and energy-aware MIKEY-Ticket for e-health applications in the context of internet of things. International Journal of Sensor Networks, 26(4), 227. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijsnet.2018.090462
E-health applications have emerged as a promising approach to provide unobtrusive and customizable support to elderly and frail people based on their situation and circumstanc...
A scalable broadcast algorithm for multiport meshes with minimum communication steps
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2003)
A scalable broadcast algorithm for multiport meshes with minimum communication steps. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS’02), 203-208. doi:10.1109/icpads.2002.1183400
Many broadcast algorithms have been proposed for the mesh over the past decade. However, most of these algorithms do not exhibit good scalability properties as the network siz...
Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services
Journal Article
McDonald, G., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Ahmad, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022)
Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services. Sensors, 22(3), Article 953. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030953
Ransomware has become an increasingly popular type of malware across the past decade and continues to rise in popularity due to its high profitability. Organisations and enter...
Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis
Journal Article
McLaren, P., Buchanan, W. J., Russell, G., & Tan, Z. (2019)
Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102372
There can be performance and vulnerability concerns with block ciphers, thus stream ciphers can used as an alternative. Although many symmetric key stream ciphers are fairly r...
Migration of mobile agents in ad-hoc wireless networks.
Conference Proceeding
Migas, N., Buchanan, W. J., & McArtney, K. (2004)
Migration of mobile agents in ad-hoc wireless networks. In Proceeding of the 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-based systems, 530-535. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECBS.2004.1316743
This paper focuses on the design and development of a novel architecture called MARIAN, which utilises static agents, mobile agents, and also a hybrid approach, in order to pe...
Creating engaging and stimulating Web based material
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J. (2014, January)
Creating engaging and stimulating Web based material. Presented at LTT 2014, Holyrood, Edinburgh
This presentation outlines the collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Bright Red Publishing
Ethical assessment in e-Health
Conference Proceeding
Gonzalez-Pinto, A., Ruiz de Azua, S., Mival, O. H., Thuernmler, C., Jumelle, A. K. L., Ispas, I., …González-Pinto, A. (2015)
Ethical assessment in e-Health. In 2014 IEEE 16th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom), 262-268. https://doi.org/10.1109/healthcom.2014.7001852
While innovative e-Health and m-Health technologies and solutions will eventually change the way health and social care are delivered, it raises many challenges regarding what...
Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching
Journal Article
Lin, C., Lu, W., Huang, X., Liu, K., Sun, W., Lin, H., & Tan, Z. (2019)
Copy-move forgery detection using combined features and transitive matching. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(21), 30081-30096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-018-6922-4
Recently, the research of Internet of Things (IoT) and Multimedia Big Data (MBD) has been growing tremendously. Both IoT and MBD have a lot of multimedia data, which can be ta...
The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime
Journal Article
Dyson, S., Buchanan, W., & Bell, L. (2018)
The Challenges of Investigating Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Related Crime. The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, 1(2), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.31585/jbba-1-2-%288%292018
We increasingly live in a world where there is a balance between the rights to privacy and the requirements for consent, and the rights of society to protect itself. Within th...