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Protecting Internet of things (IoT) devices against cyber attacks is imperative owing to inherent security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can include a spectrum of sophisticated attacks that pose significant damage to both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Afrah Gueriani , Hamza Kheddar , Ahmed Cherif Mazari

The augmentation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices transformed both automation and connectivity but revealed major security vulnerabilities in networks. We address these challenges by designing a robust intrusion detection system (IDS) to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Karma Gurung , Ashutosh Ghimire , Fathi Amsaad

As the number of connected IoT devices continues to grow, securing these systems against cyber threats remains a major challenge, especially in environments with limited computational and energy resources. This paper presents an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Saeid Jamshidi , Amin Nikanjam , Negar Shahabi , Kawser Wazed Nafi , Foutse Khomh , Samira Keivanpour , Rolando Herrero

In IT system operations, shell commands are common command line tools used by site reliability engineers (SREs) for daily tasks, such as system configuration, package deployment, and performance optimization. The efficiency in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Andrea Tonon , Bora Caglayan , MingXue Wang , Peng Hu , Fei Shen , Puchao Zhang

With the ever-increasing reliance on digital networks for various aspects of modern life, ensuring their security has become a critical challenge. Intrusion Detection Systems play a crucial role in ensuring network security, actively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Hamdi Friji , Ioannis Mavromatis , Adrian Sanchez-Mompo , Pietro Carnelli , Alexis Olivereau , Aftab Khan

Internet of Things (IoT) is a whole new ecosystem comprised of heterogeneous connected devices -i.e. computers, laptops, smart-phones and tablets as well as embedded devices and sensors-that communicate to deliver capabilities making our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis , Emanuele Bellini

The proliferation of IoT devices which can be more easily compromised than desktop computers has led to an increase in the occurrence of IoT based botnet attacks. In order to mitigate this new threat there is a need to develop new methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yair Meidan , Michael Bohadana , Yael Mathov , Yisroel Mirsky , Dominik Breitenbacher , Asaf Shabtai , Yuval Elovici

Recent high-profile attacks on the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought to the forefront the vulnerability of "smart" devices, and have resulted in numerous IoT-focused security analyses. Many of the attacks had weak device configuration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Pallavi Sivakumaran , Jorge Blasco

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and the increasing use of application-based processors, security infrastructure needs to be examined on some widely-used IoT hardware architectures. Applications in today's world are moving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Praneet Singh , Kedar Deshpande

We analyze the prandom pseudo random number generator (PRNG) in use in the Linux kernel (which is the kernel of the Linux operating system, as well as of Android) and demonstrate that this PRNG is weak. The prandom PRNG is in use by many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Amit Klein

A promising avenue for improving the effectiveness of behavioral-based malware detectors would be to combine fast traditional machine learning detectors with high-accuracy, but time-consuming deep learning models. The main idea would be to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ruimin Sun , Marcus Botacin , Nikolaos Sapountzis , Xiaoyong Yuan , Matt Bishop , Donald E Porter , Xiaolin Li , Andre Gregio , Daniela Oliveira

The rapid evolution of malware attacks calls for the development of innovative detection methods, especially in resource-constrained edge computing. Traditional detection techniques struggle to keep up with modern malware's sophistication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Christian Rondanini , Barbara Carminati , Elena Ferrari , Antonio Gaudiano , Ashish Kundu

Securing the Internet of Things (IoT) is a necessary milestone toward expediting the deployment of its applications and services. In particular, the functionality of the IoT devices is extremely dependent on the reliability of their message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

Internet of Things and its applications are becoming commonplace with more devices, but always at risk of network security. It is therefore crucial for an IoT network design to identify attackers accurately, quickly and promptly. Many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Truong Thu Huong , Ta Phuong Bac , Dao M. Long , Bui D. Thang , Nguyen T. Binh , Tran D. Luong , Tran Kim Phuc

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly important. These devices are often resource-limited, hindering rigorous enforcement of security policies. Assessing the vulnerability of IoT devices is an important problem, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Davino Mauro Junior , Luis Melo , Harvey Lu , Marcelo d'Amorim , Atul Prakash

The number of IoT devices in use is increasing rapidly and so is the number of IoT applications. As in any new technology, the rapid development means rapid increase in security threats and attack surfaces. IoT security has proven to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Mohammed M. Alani

The present thesis addresses the topic of denial of service capabilities detection at malware binary level, with the aim of designing a framework that integrate results from different binary analysis methods and decide on the DDoS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mounir Baammi

Random numbers are an essential input to many functions on the Internet of Things (IoT). Common use cases of randomness range from low-level packet transmission to advanced algorithms of artificial intelligence as well as security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Peter Kietzmann , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Through the generalization of deep learning, the research community has addressed critical challenges in the network security domain, like malware identification and anomaly detection. However, they have yet to discuss deploying them on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Arshiya Khan , Chase Cotton

Context: The IoT system infrastructure platform facility vulnerability attack has become the main battlefield of network security attacks. Most of the traditional vulnerability mining methods rely on vulnerability detection tools to realize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wen Zhou