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Recent research has made great strides in the field of detecting botnets. However, botnets of all kinds continue to plague the Internet, as many ISPs and organizations do not deploy these techniques. We aim to mitigate this state by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Amir Houmansadr , Nikita Borisov

The increased adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents an opportunity to solve many socio-economic and environmental challenges; however, this cannot happen without securing AI-enabled technologies. In recent years, most AI models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ayodeji Oseni , Nour Moustafa , Helge Janicke , Peng Liu , Zahir Tari , Athanasios Vasilakos

Nowadays, cyber threats are considered among the most dangerous risks by top management of enterprises. One way to deal with these risks is to insure them, but cyber insurance is still quite expensive. The insurance fee can be reduced if…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ganbayar Uuganbayar , Artsiom Yautsiukhin , Fabio Martinelli , Fabio Massacci

The paper aims to present a new apparatus for managing of the information security of the digital economy with using of social networks. A general problem for optimization of the information security management for participants in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-01-12 Anatolii A. Shyian

Financing high-tech projects always entails a great deal of risk. The lack of a systematic method to pinpoint the risk of such projects has been recognized as one of the most salient barriers for evaluating them. So, in order to develop a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Hossein Sabzian , Ehsan Kamrani , Seyyed Mostafa Seyyed Hashemi

Vessels cybersecurity is recently gaining momentum, as a result of a few recent attacks to vessels at sea. These recent attacks have shacked the maritime domain, which was thought to be relatively immune to cyber threats. The cited belief…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Maurantonio Caprolu , Roberto Di Pietro , Simone Raponi , Savio Sciancalepore , Pietro Tedeschi

Enterprises are constantly under attack from sophisticated adversaries. These adversaries use a variety of techniques to first gain access to the enterprise, then spread laterally inside its networks, establish persistence, and finally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sumanth Rao

Pricing insurance for risks associated with information technology systems presents a complex modelling challenge, combining the disciplines of operations management, security, and economics. This work proposes a socioeconomic modelling…

General Economics · Economics 2023-10-05 Henry Skeoch , David Pym

Web emerged as an antidote to the rapidly increasing quantity of accumulated knowledge and become successful because it facilitates massive participation and communication with minimum costs. Today, its enormous impact, scale and dynamism…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Michalis Vafopoulos

As deep learning applications, especially programs of computer vision, are increasingly deployed in our lives, we have to think more urgently about the security of these applications.One effective way to improve the security of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Xiao Tan , Jingbo Gao , Ruolin Li

Modeling and simulation are widely used in cybersecurity research to assess cyber threats, evaluate defense mechanisms, and analyze vulnerabilities. However, the diversity of application areas, the variety of cyberattacks scenarios, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Luca Serena , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

Cybersecurity lessons have not been learnt from the dawn of other technological industries. In robotics, the existing insecurity landscape needs to be addressed immediately. Several manufacturers profiting from the lack of general awareness…

Communities are an important feature of social networks. In fact, it seems that communities are necessary for a social network to be efficient. However, there exist very few formal studies of the actual role of communities in social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Peter Marbach

The IoT is a network of interconnected everyday objects called things that have been augmented with a small measure of computing capabilities. Lately, the IoT has been affected by a variety of different botnet activities. As botnets have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Nickolaos Koroniotis , Nour Moustafa , Elena Sitnikova , Jill Slay

The security pitfalls of IoT devices make it easy for the attackers to exploit the IoT devices and make them a part of a botnet. Once hundreds of thousands of IoT devices are compromised and become the part of a botnet, the attackers use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Faisal Hussain , Syed Ghazanfar Abbas , Ubaid U. Fayyaz , Ghalib A. Shah , Abdullah Toqeer , Ahmad Ali

Cyber security threats to the payment and banking system have become a worldwide menace. The phenomenon has forced financial institutions to take risks as part of their business model. Hence, deliberate investment in sophisticated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Williams Haruna , Toyin Ajiboro Aremu , Yetunde Ajao Modupe

Over the last decade botnets survived by adopting a sequence of increasingly sophisticated strategies to evade detection and take overs, and to monetize their infrastructure. At the same time, the success of privacy infrastructures such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-15 Amirali Sanatinia , Guevara Noubir

Botnet detection based on machine learning have witnessed significant leaps in recent years, with the availability of large and reliable datasets that are extracted from real-life scenarios. Consequently, adversarial attacks on machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mohammed M. Alani , Atefeh Mashatan , Ali Miri

In the contemporary digital landscape, cybersecurity has become a critical issue due to the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyber attacks. This study utilizes a non-zero-sum game theoretical framework to model the strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Dongyoung Park , Gaby G. Dagher

Most of the grand challenges of humanity today involve complex agent-based systems, such as epidemiology, economics or ecology. However, remains as a pending task the challenge of identifying the general principles underlying their…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-10-19 Martin Jaraiz