Outputs (372)

HDL-IDS: A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Vehicles (2022)
Journal Article
Ullah, S., Khan, M. A., Ahmad, J., Jamal, S. S., e Huma, Z., Hassan, M. T., …Buchanan, W. J. (2022). HDL-IDS: A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Vehicles. Sensors, 22(4), Article 1340. https://doi.org/10.3390/

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is an application of the Internet of Things (IoT) network that connects smart vehicles to the internet, and vehicles with each other. With the emergence of IoV technology, customers have placed great attention on smart vehi... Read More about HDL-IDS: A Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture for Intrusion Detection in the Internet of Vehicles.

Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abubakar, M., McCarron, P., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, B. (2022). Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates. In 2021 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN).

The COVID-19 pandemic has recently emerged as a worldwide health emergency that necessitates coordinated international measures. To contain the virus's spread, governments and health organisations raced to develop vaccines that would lower Covid-19 m... Read More about Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates.

GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chrysoulas, C., Thomson, A., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., Domalis, G., Karacapilidis, N., Tsakalidis, D., & Tsolis, D. (2021, October). GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS. Presented at 7th

The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bureaucratic problems faced by eGovernance services. This innovation led them to an era of automation, broadened the attack surface and made them a popular target for cyber attacks.... Read More about GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS.

A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Barati, M., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., & Rana, O. (2022). A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports. In UCC '21: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion. https://doi.or

Digital vaccination passports are being proposed by various governments internationally. Trust, scalability and security are all key challenges in implementing an online vaccine passport. Initial approaches attempt to solve this problem by using cent... Read More about A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports.

Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services (2022)
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 enterprises have become prime targets for ransomware as they are more likely to... Read More about Ransomware: Analysing the Impact on Windows Active Directory Domain Services.

NapierOne: A modern mixed file data set alternative to Govdocs1 (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). NapierOne: A modern mixed file data set alternative to Govdocs1. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 40, Article 301330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2021.301330

It was found when reviewing the ransomware detection research literature that almost no proposal provided enough detail on how the test data set was created, or sufficient description of its actual content, to allow it to be recreated by other resear... Read More about NapierOne: A modern mixed file data set alternative to Govdocs1.

Exploring the Need For an Updated Mixed File Research Data Set (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, October). Exploring the Need For an Updated Mixed File Research Data Set. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), Istanbul, Turkey

Mixed file data sets are used in a variety of research areas, including Digital Forensics, Malware analysis and Ransomware detection. Researchers recently seem to either have to create their own custom data sets or well-known data sets are used, but... Read More about Exploring the Need For an Updated Mixed File Research Data Set.

Review of Current Ransomware Detection Techniques (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, October). Review of Current Ransomware Detection Techniques. Presented at 2021 International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies (ICEET), Istanbul, Turkey

A review of proposed ransomware detection tools and techniques. The tools are described, compared and contrasted and possible short comings in their approaches are discussed.

Decentralised Privacy: A Distributed Ledger Approach (2021)
Book Chapter
Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). Decentralised Privacy: A Distributed Ledger Approach. In C. Mustansar Hussain, & P. Di Sia (Eds.), Handbook of Smart Materials, Technologies, and Devices (1-26). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/1

Our world due to the technological progress became fast-paced and is constantly evolving, thus changing every single day. Consequently, the most valuable asset on earth is not gold or oil anymore but data. Big data companies try to take advantage of... Read More about Decentralised Privacy: A Distributed Ledger Approach.

Browsers’ Private Mode: Is It What We Were Promised? (2021)
Journal Article
Hughes, K., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., Smales, A., Ahmad, J., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). Browsers’ Private Mode: Is It What We Were Promised?. Computers, 10(12), Article 165. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers10120165

Web browsers are one of the most used applications on every computational device in our days. Hence, they play a pivotal role in any forensic investigation and help determine if nefarious or suspicious activity has occurred on that device. Our study... Read More about Browsers’ Private Mode: Is It What We Were Promised?.