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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.

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.

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.

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?.

Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Young, E. H., Chrysoulas, C., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021, October). Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure. Paper presented at International Conference on Data Analyt

Little or no research has been directed to analysis and researching forensic analysis of the Bitcoin mixing or 'tumbling' service themselves. This work is intended to examine effective tooling and methodology for recovering forensic artifacts from tw... Read More about Evaluating Tooling and Methodology when Analysing Bitcoin Mixing Services After Forensic Seizure.

A Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for MQTT Enabled IoT (2021)
Journal Article
Almas Khan, M., Khan, M. A., Ullah Jan, S., Ahmad, J., Jamal, S. S., Shah, A. A., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., Alonistioti, N., Panagiotakis, S., & Markakis, E. K. (2021). A Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for MQTT Enabled IoT. Sensors,

A large number of smart devices in Internet of Things (IoT) environments communicate via different messaging protocols. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a widely used publish–subscribe-based protocol for the communication of sensor or ev... Read More about A Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for MQTT Enabled IoT.

Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Marchand, B., Pitropakis, N., Buchanan, W. J., & Lambrinoudakis, C. (2021). Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection. In Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business: 18th International Conference, TrustBus 20

Web addresses, or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), represent a vector by which attackers are able to deliver a multitude of unwanted and potentially harmful effects to users through malicious software. The ability to detect and block access to such... Read More about Launching Adversarial Label Contamination Attacks Against Malicious URL Detection.

PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform (2021)
Journal Article
Abramson, W., Papadopoulos, P., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform. Software Impacts, 9, Article 100101. https://doi.org/10.1016

PyDentity lowers the entry barrier for parties interested in experimenting with the Hyperledger’s verifiable information exchange platform. It enables educators, developers and researchers to configure and initialise a set of actors easily as associa... Read More about PyDentity: A playground for education and experimentation with the hyperledger verifiable information exchange platform.

Towards Lightweight URL-Based Phishing Detection (2021)
Journal Article
Butnaru, A., Mylonas, A., & Pitropakis, N. (2021). Towards Lightweight URL-Based Phishing Detection. Future Internet, 13(6), Article 154. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13060154

Nowadays, the majority of everyday computing devices, irrespective of their size and operating system, allow access to information and online services through web browsers. However, the pervasiveness of web browsing in our daily life does not come wi... Read More about Towards Lightweight URL-Based Phishing Detection.