Outputs (42)

Exploring Dataset Diversity For GenAI Image Inpainting Localisation In Digital Forensics (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomson, M., McKeown, S., Macfarlane, R., & Leimich, P. (2025, April). Exploring Dataset Diversity For GenAI Image Inpainting Localisation In Digital Forensics. Presented at The Digital Forensics Research Conference Europe (DFRWS EU 2025) Digital Forensics Doctoral Symposium (DFDS), Brno, Czech Republic

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has significantly increased the sophistication and ease of image tampering techniques, posing challenges for digital forensics in identifying manipulated images. A lack of dataset standardisation hinders the... Read More about Exploring Dataset Diversity For GenAI Image Inpainting Localisation In Digital Forensics.

BOAZ, Yet Another Layered Evasion Tool: Evasion Tool Evaluations and AV Testing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, R., & Xuan Meng, T. (2024, August). BOAZ, Yet Another Layered Evasion Tool: Evasion Tool Evaluations and AV Testing. Presented at blackhat USA 2024, Las Vegas, US

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cybersecurity, there has been an increasing deployment of evasion techniques in organizational vulnerability assessments and found post-discovery of security incidents, owing to the more sophisticated defense mech... Read More about BOAZ, Yet Another Layered Evasion Tool: Evasion Tool Evaluations and AV Testing.

Majority Voting Ransomware Detection System (2023)
Journal Article
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2023). Majority Voting Ransomware Detection System. Journal of Information Security, 14(4), 264-293. https://doi.org/10.4236/jis.2023.144016

Crypto-ransomware remains a significant threat to governments and companies alike, with high-profile cyber security incidents regularly making headlines. Many different detection systems have been proposed as solutions to the ever-changing dynamic la... Read More about Majority Voting Ransomware Detection System.

Improved ICS Honeypot Techniques (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McColm, D., & Macfarlane, R. (2023, June). Improved ICS Honeypot Techniques. Paper presented at International Conference on Computer Security in the Nuclear World: Security for Safety, Vienna, Austria

As work continues to advance the security posture of ICS systems across the UKNDA estate, opportunities arise to consider the deployment of deception technologies. With high-profile attacks on ICS occurring more frequently, and increasing numbers of... Read More about Improved ICS Honeypot Techniques.

Evaluation of live forensic techniques, towards Salsa20-Based cryptographic ransomware mitigation (2023)
Journal Article
Fernandez de Loaysa Babiano, L., Macfarlane, R., & Davies, S. R. (2023). Evaluation of live forensic techniques, towards Salsa20-Based cryptographic ransomware mitigation. Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 46, Article 301572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2023.301572

Ransomware has been established as one of the largest current threats to organisations, small businesses, governments, and individuals alike. The appearance of cryptocurrencies and the enhancement of encryption key management schemes increased the ca... Read More about Evaluation of live forensic techniques, towards Salsa20-Based cryptographic ransomware mitigation.

Vascular mechanisms of post-COVID-19 conditions: rho-kinase is a novel target for therapy (2023)
Journal Article
Sykes, R. A., Neves, K. B., Alves-Lopes, R., Caputo, I., Fallon, K., Jamieson, N. B., Kamdar, A., Legrini, A., Leslie, H., McIntosh, A., McConnachie, A., Morrow, A., McFarlane, R. W., Mangion, K., McAbney, J., Montezano, A. C., Touyz, R. M., Wood, C., & Berry, C. (2023). Vascular mechanisms of post-COVID-19 conditions: rho-kinase is a novel target for therapy. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, 9(4), 371-386. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvad025

Background
In post-COVID-19 conditions (Long COVID), systemic vascular dysfunction is implicated but the mechanisms are uncertain, and treatment is imprecise.

Methods
Patients convalescing after hospitalisation for COVID-19 and risk-factor match... Read More about Vascular mechanisms of post-COVID-19 conditions: rho-kinase is a novel target for therapy.

Comparison Of Common Mathematical Techniques Used In The Calculation Of File Entropy (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, S. R., & Macfarlane, R. (2022, November). Comparison Of Common Mathematical Techniques Used In The Calculation Of File Entropy. Presented at 2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), Maldives

The research described in this paper focuses on the use of mathematical techniques to identify high entropy encrypted files generated during the execution of ransomware. A common approach used by many ransomware detection techniques is to monitor fil... Read More about Comparison Of Common Mathematical Techniques Used In The Calculation Of File Entropy.

Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification (2022)
Journal Article
Davies, S. R., Macfarlane, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification. Entropy, 24(10), Article 1503. https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101503

Ransomware is a malicious class of software that utilises encryption to implement an attack on system availability. The target’s data remains encrypted and is held captive by the attacker until a ransom demand is met. A common approach used by many c... Read More about Comparison of Entropy Calculation Methods for Ransomware Encrypted File Identification.

Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeships: A feasibility study into development of an MSc programme based on review of current undergraduate provision (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leitch, K., Bernal-Sanchez, J., & Macfarlane, R. (2022, September). Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeships: A feasibility study into development of an MSc programme based on review of current undergraduate provision. Presented at 8th International Symposium for Engineering Education, Glasgow

This paper details the findings of a study undertaken at Edinburgh Napier University to assess the feasibility of developing an existing Graduate Apprentice programme in Civil Engineering to a MSc level. Using a mixed methods approach, data from a se... Read More about Civil Engineering Graduate Apprenticeships: A feasibility study into development of an MSc programme based on review of current undergraduate provision.

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.