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Phishing attacks remain a persistent cybersecurity threat, and the widespread adoption of TLS certificates has unintentionally enabled malicious websites to appear trustworthy to users. This study examines whether certificate metadata and…

The Internet and cyberspace are inseparable aspects of everyone's life. Cyberspace is a concept that describes widespread, interconnected, and online digital technology. Cyberspace refers to the online world that is separate from everyday…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Sarah Sharifi

One of the most common causes of lack of continuity of online systems stems from a widely popular Cyber Attack known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), in which a network of infected devices (botnet) gets exploited to flood the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio

The "Darkverse" could be the negative harmful area of the Metaverse; a new virtual immersive environment for the facilitation of illicit activity such as misinformation, fraud, harassment, and illegal marketplaces. This paper explores the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Raymond Chan , Benjamin W. J. Kwok , Adriel Yeo , Kan Chen , Jeannie S. Lee

A drive by download is a download that occurs without users action or knowledge. It usually triggers an exploit of vulnerability in a browser to downloads an unknown file. The malicious program in the downloaded file installs itself on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Saeed Ibrahim , Nawwaf Al Herami , Ebrahim Al Naqbi , Monther Aldwairi

Abuse on the Internet represents an important societal problem of our time. Millions of Internet users face harassment, racism, personal attacks, and other types of abuse on online platforms. The psychological effects of such abuse on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Cryptographic algorithm agility is an important property for DNSSEC: it allows easy deployment of new algorithms if the existing ones are no longer secure. In this work we show that the cryptographic agility in DNSSEC, although critical for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Elias Heftrig , Haya Shulman , Michael Waidner

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) offer a protection layer for enhancing the security of websites. However, a significant security flaw named Absence of Domain Verification (DVA) has become emerging recently. Although this threat is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ziyu Lin , Zhiwei Lin , Run Guo , Jianjun Chen , Mingming Zhang , Ximeng Liu , Tianhao Yang , Zhuoran Cao , Robert H. Deng

Software-Defined Networks have seen an increasing in their deployment because they offer better network manageability compared to traditional networks. Despite their immense success and popularity, various security issues in SDN remain open…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Bilal Karim Mughal , Sufian Hameed , Ghulam Muhammad Shaikh

This paper deals with denial of service attack. Overview of the existing attacks and methods is proposed. Classification scheme is presented for a different denial of service attacks. There is considered agent-based intrusion detection…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-30 O. Ignatenko

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to produce humongous traffic within a network by overwhelming a targeted server or its neighboring infrastructure with a flood of service requests ceaselessly coming from multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Mohammad Arafat Ullah , Arthy Anjum , Rashedul Amin Tuhin , Shamim Akhter

Considering computer systems, security is the major concern with usability. Security policies need to be developed to protect information from unauthorized access. Passwords and secrete codes used between users and information systems for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Sharayu A. Aghav , RajneeshKaur Bedi

Anomalies in online social networks can signify irregular, and often illegal behaviour. Anomalies in online social networks can signify irregular, and often illegal behaviour. Detection of such anomalies has been used to identify malicious…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-02 David Savage , Xiuzhen Zhang , Xinghuo Yu , Pauline Chou , Qingmai Wang

Availability is a major concern in the design of DNSSEC. To ensure availability, DNSSEC follows Postel's Law [RFC1123]: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." Hence, nameservers should send not just one matching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Elias Heftrig , Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

Automated Decision-Making Systems (ADS) have become pervasive across various fields, activities, and occupations, to enhance performance. However, this widespread adoption introduces potential risks, including the misuse of ADS. Such misuse…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Marcelino Cabrera , Carlos Cruz , Pavel Novoa-Hernández , David A. Pelta , José Luis Verdegay

Domain Name System (DNS), one of the important infrastructure in the Internet, was vulnerable to attacks, for the DNS designer didn't take security issues into consideration at the beginning. The defects of DNS may lead to users' failure of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Caiyun Huang , Peng Zhang , Junpeng Liu , Yong Sun , Xueqiang Zou

Nowadays, malware campaigns have reached a high level of sophistication, thanks to the use of cryptography and covert communication channels over traditional protocols and services. In this regard, a typical approach to evade botnet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Constantinos Patsakis , Fran Casino

Web spam refers to some techniques, which try to manipulate search engine ranking algorithms in order to raise web page position in search engine results. In the best case, spammers encourage viewers to visit their sites, and provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Shekoofeh Ghiam , Alireza Nemaney Pour

Search engine is main access to the largest information source in this world, Internet. Now Internet is changing every aspect of our life. Information retrieval service may be its most important services. But for common user, internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wang Liang , Guo Yi-Ping , Fang Ming

DDoS attacks, also known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, have emerged as one of the most serious and fastest-growing threats on the Internet. Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are an example of cyber attacks that target a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Anupama Mishra