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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
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Evaluation on the Impact of Cache Parameter Selection in Access-Driven Cache Attacks

  • Pengfei Guo,
  • Yingjian Yan,
  • Bin Ye,
  • Chunsheng Zhu and ,
  • Lichao Zhang,
  • Ting Shen and
  • Lin Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Cache attacks exploit the hardware vulnerabilities inherent to modern processors and pose a new threat to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Intuitively, different cache parameter configurations directly impact the attack effectiveness, but the curren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Detection of Hardware Attacks and Security-Oriented Design in IoT Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
16,745 Views
20 Pages

Rowhammer Attacks in Dynamic Random-Access Memory and Defense Methods

  • Dayeon Kim,
  • Hyungdong Park,
  • Inguk Yeo,
  • Youn Kyu Lee and ,
  • Youngmin Kim,
  • Hyung-Min Lee and
  • Kon-Woo Kwon
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 January 2024

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the security vulnerability known as rowhammer in Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM). While DRAM offers many desirable advantages, including low latency, high density, and cost-effectiveness, rowhammer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security, Cryptography and Privacy-Preserving Computation Architectures for Wireless Sensors Networks and Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,701 Views
16 Pages

14 February 2025

We investigate the cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (CNOMA) transmission through a full-duplex (FD) decode-and-forward (DaF) mode relay and propose two sub-optimal beamforming schemes for this CNOMA FD relay channel. For the optimization me...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,553 Views
21 Pages

Countermeasuring MITM Attacks in Solar-Powered PON-Based FiWi Access Networks

  • Polyxeni Tsompanoglou,
  • Antonios Iliadis,
  • Konstantinos Kantelis,
  • Sophia Petridou and
  • Petros Nicopolitidis

20 February 2023

Solar power (SP) passive optical network (PON)-based fiber-wireless (FiWi) access systems are becoming increasingly popular as they provide coverage to rural and urban areas where no power grid exists. Secure operation of such networks which includes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,431 Views
28 Pages

CBAM: A Contextual Model for Network Anomaly Detection

  • Henry Clausen,
  • Gudmund Grov and
  • David Aspinall

Anomaly-based intrusion detection methods aim to combat the increasing rate of zero-day attacks, however, their success is currently restricted to the detection of high-volume attacks using aggregated traffic features. Recent evaluations show that th...

(This article belongs to the Section Cloud Continuum and Enabled Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
9,066 Views
24 Pages

Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption for Cloud Storage: Toward Data Privacy and Authentication in AI-Enabled IoT System

  • P. Chinnasamy,
  • P. Deepalakshmi,
  • Ashit Kumar Dutta,
  • Jinsang You and
  • Gyanendra Prasad Joshi

26 December 2021

People can store their data on servers in cloud computing and allow public users to access data via data centers. One of the most difficult tasks is to provide security for the access policy of data, which is also needed to be stored at cloud servers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Frameworks and Methods for Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,313 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2023

Data stored in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) face problems with ease of tampering, easy disclosure and single access control. Based on this problem, we propose an access control scheme for the IoV based on blockchain, trust values and weighted attri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Distributed Computing and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,879 Views
21 Pages

A Delay-Based Machine Learning Model for DMA Attack Mitigation

  • Yutian Gui,
  • Chaitanya Bhure,
  • Marcus Hughes and
  • Fareena Saqib

Direct Memory Access (DMA) is a state-of-the-art technique to optimize the speed of memory access and to efficiently use processing power during data transfers between the main system and a peripheral device. However, this advanced feature opens secu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,220 Views
27 Pages

Interleaved Honeypot-Framing Model with Secure MAC Policies for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Rajasoundaran Soundararajan,
  • Maheswar Rajagopal,
  • Akila Muthuramalingam,
  • Eklas Hossain and
  • Jaime Lloret

21 October 2022

The Wireless Medium Access Control (WMAC) protocol functions by handling various data frames in order to forward them to neighbor sensor nodes. Under this circumstance, WMAC policies need secure data communication rules and intrusion detection proced...

(This article belongs to the Collection Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms for Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,721 Views
20 Pages

AHAC: Advanced Network-Hiding Access Control Framework

  • Mudi Xu,
  • Benfeng Chen,
  • Zhizhong Tan,
  • Shan Chen and ,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Tai Io San,
  • Sou Wang Fong,
  • Wenyong Wang and
  • Jing Feng
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

27 June 2024

In the current context of rapid Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing technology development, the Single Packet Authorization (SPA) protocol faces increasing challenges, such as security threats from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cloud Computing: Privacy Protection and Data Security)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
780 Views
17 Pages

6 August 2026

This study proposes a machine learning and deep learning framework to detect application layer DDoS attacks using web server access logs. A realistic dataset was generated using eight DDoS tools, along with benign traffic. Multiple ML models, includi...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 15th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2026—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
603 Views
24 Pages

Sybil attacks remain a primary challenge for Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain systems, as low-cost identity creation can distort validator participation and limit consensus reliability. This study proposes a hybrid participation–governance frame...

(This article belongs to the Topic Security and Privacy in Distributed and Trustless Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,009 Views
18 Pages

16 December 2022

Billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors are expected to be supported by fifth-generation (5G) wireless cellular networks. This highly connected structure is predicted to attract different and unseen types of attacks on devices, senso...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Next Generation Wireless Sensor and Mesh Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,272 Views
15 Pages

Current proxy signature schemes are mostly identity-based proxy signatures that distinguish users by identity. This signature method faces some problems, such as identity information leakage and single access control. Attribute-based proxy signature...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,074 Views
36 Pages

Blockchain-Based Access Control Scheme for Secure Shared Personal Health Records over Decentralised Storage

  • Hassan Mansur Hussien,
  • Sharifah Md Yasin,
  • Nur Izura Udzir and
  • Mohd Izuan Hafez Ninggal

2 April 2021

Blockchain technology provides a tremendous opportunity to transform current personal health record (PHR) systems into a decentralised network infrastructure. However, such technology possesses some drawbacks, such as issues in privacy and storage ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy, Security, and Trust in New Technological Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,445 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient Encryption Scheme with Fully Hidden Access Policy for Medical Data

  • Moli Zhang,
  • Feijiao Shao,
  • Ruijuan Zheng,
  • Muhua Liu and
  • Zhihang Ji

With the development of informatization, patient medical data are generally stored in the form of electronic medical records. Hospitals store a large amount of medical data on cloud servers, which can ensure the integrity and sharing of medical data....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,082 Views
19 Pages

22 January 2025

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized various industries by enabling seamless connectivity and data exchange among devices. However, the security and privacy of outsourced IoT data remain critical challenges, especially given the resource c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements and Challenges in IoT Communication Technologies for a Connected World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,344 Views
34 Pages

Cloud computing has witnessed rapid growth and notable technological progress in recent years. Nevertheless, it is still regarded as being in its early developmental phase, with substantial potential remaining to be explored—particularly throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
14,235 Views
35 Pages

Security Requirements for the Internet of Things: A Systematic Approach

  • Shantanu Pal,
  • Michael Hitchens,
  • Tahiry Rabehaja and
  • Subhas Mukhopadhyay

19 October 2020

There has been a tremendous growth in the number of smart devices and their applications (e.g., smart sensors, wearable devices, smart phones, smart cars, etc.) in use in our everyday lives. This is accompanied by a new form of interconnection betwee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing Techniques for Smart Sensor Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,563 Views
19 Pages

An Access Control Model for Preventing Virtual Machine Escape Attack

  • Jiang Wu,
  • Zhou Lei,
  • Shengbo Chen and
  • Wenfeng Shen

With the rapid development of Internet, the traditional computing environment is making a big migration to the cloud-computing environment. However, cloud computing introduces a set of new security problems. Aiming at the virtual machine (VM) escape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,397 Views
21 Pages

As a new type of service computing model, cloud computing provides various services through the Internet. Virtual machine (VM) hopping is a security issue often encountered in the virtualization layer. Once it occurs, it directly affects the reliabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,694 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2021

Standalone Name Resolution (SNR) is an essential component of many Information-Centric Networking (ICN) infrastructures that maps and stores the mappings of IDs and locators. The delivery of data can be realized only when the name resolution process...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,002 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2017

In this paper, we model and investigate the random access (RA) performance of sensor nodes (SN) in a wireless sensor network (WSN). In the WSN, a central head sensor (HS) collects the information from distributed SNs, and jammers disturb the informat...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,028 Views
15 Pages

1 October 2025

Low-Earth-Orbit Satellite Internet (LEO SI), with its capability for seamless global coverage, is a key solution for connecting IoT devices in areas beyond terrestrial network reach, playing a vital role in building a future ubiquitous IoT system. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
876 Views
23 Pages

Industrial control systems (ICSs) increasingly rely on legacy communication protocols such as ModbusTCP, which lack built-in security mechanisms and remain widely exposed to network-based attacks. This paper investigates the security limitations of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adversarial Attacks and Cyber Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
220 Views
26 Pages

15 October 2026

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) determine whether a sample was used to train a target model. Existing attacks often require abundant auxiliary data or many reference models, which may be unavailable in restricted services. We propose a meta-learn...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,552 Views
5 Pages

Background: Transient Ischaemic Attacks (TIA) should be treated as a medical emergency. While high-risk TIAs have higher stroke risks than low-risk patients, there is an inherent limitation to this risk stratification, as some low-risk patients may h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,265 Views
22 Pages

Dynamic Adaptation Attack Detection Model for a Distributed Multi-Access Edge Computing Smart City

  • Nouf Saeed Alotaibi,
  • Hassan Ibrahim Ahmed and
  • Samah Osama M. Kamel

12 August 2023

The internet of things (IoT) technology presents an intelligent way to improve our lives and contributes to many fields such as industry, communications, agriculture, etc. Unfortunately, IoT networks are exposed to many attacks that may destroy the e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Sensor Data Analysis)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
20,473 Views
37 Pages

10 July 2023

The number of devices connected within organisational networks through ”Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) initiatives has steadily increased. BYOD security risks have resulted in significant privacy and security issues impacting organisationa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Cybersecurity: Challenges and Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
9,782 Views
52 Pages

Towards Secure Fog Computing: A Survey on Trust Management, Privacy, Authentication, Threats and Access Control

  • Abdullah Al-Noman Patwary,
  • Ranesh Kumar Naha,
  • Saurabh Garg,
  • Sudheer Kumar Battula and ,
  • Md Anwarul Kaium Patwary,
  • Erfan Aghasian,
  • Muhammad Bilal Amin,
  • Aniket Mahanti and
  • Mingwei Gong
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Fog computing is an emerging computing paradigm that has come into consideration for the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) applications amongst researchers and technology industries over the last few years. Fog is highly distributed and consists...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded IoT: System Design and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,504 Views
19 Pages

The rollout of 5G Standalone networks introduces unprecedented flexibility and performance through service-based architecture (SBA), virtualization, open APIs, and network slicing, while simultaneously expanding the attack surface across control, use...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intrusion/Malware Detection and Prevention in Networks—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,205 Views
21 Pages

How Can We Achieve Query Keyword Frequency Analysis in Privacy-Preserving Situations?

  • Yiming Zhu,
  • Dehua Zhou,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Beibei Song and
  • Chuansheng Wang

Recently, significant progress has been made in the field of public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS), with a focus on optimizing search methods and improving the security and efficiency of schemes. Keyword frequency analysis is a powerful to...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,089 Views
13 Pages

7 April 2021

Recently, damages such as internal system intrusion, network and device vulnerability attacks, malicious code infection, and information leakage due to security attacks are increasing within the smart grid environment. Detailed and dynamic access con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Centric Urban Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,205 Views
24 Pages

Cache Misses and the Recovery of the Full AES 256 Key

  • Samira Briongos,
  • Pedro Malagón,
  • Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche and
  • Jose M. Moya

6 March 2019

The CPU cache is a hardware element that leaks significant information about the software running on the CPU. Particularly, any application performing sequences of memory access that depend on sensitive information, such as private keys, is susceptib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Side Channel Attacks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,201 Views
12 Pages

8 January 2022

Cache side channel attacks, as a type of cryptanalysis, seriously threaten the security of the cryptosystem. These attacks continuously monitor the memory addresses associated with the victim’s secret information, which cause frequent memory access o...

(This article belongs to the Section Cybersecurity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,643 Views
17 Pages

26 November 2019

A denial of service (DoS) attack in a computer network is an attack on the availability of computer resources to prevent users from having access to those resources over the network. Denial of service attacks can be costly, capable of reaching $100,0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,069 Views
18 Pages

A Secure Architecture to Protect the Network from Replay Attacks during Client-to-Client Data Transmission

  • Muhammad Nadeem,
  • Ali Arshad,
  • Saman Riaz,
  • Syeda Wajiha Zahra and ,
  • Ashit Kumar Dutta and
  • Sultan Almotairi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 August 2022

Cloud computing is an online data storage system that can be easily accessed anywhere. Various algorithms and techniques have been developed to secure cloud data, which, if used correctly, can detect cloud attacks. These algorithms can only detect cl...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,486 Views
16 Pages

23 August 2021

Attackers’ intrusion into the Enterprise LAN is increasing every year, and the method is becoming more intelligent and crafty. Various security measures against external network intrusions, such as firewalls, are being studied and applied to protect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simulation and Modelling in Natural Sciences, Economics, Biomedicine and Engineering II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
271 Views
24 Pages

8 October 2026

The basis for this work is the growing prevalence of the Evil Twin attack on IEEE 802.11 networks, as it is the initial link in downgrade attacks that force the security protocol from WPA3 to WPA2 in transition mode, enabling handshake interception a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Cybersecurity for Next-Generation Wireless Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,094 Views
19 Pages

22 October 2020

Because of the popularity of wireless technology, jamming attack is one of the most critical issues in wireless networks. Wireless jamming attack is one type of denial-of-service attacks where attackers send malicious messages or signal on a legitima...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,452 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2022

Intel SGX (Software Guard Extensions) is a hardware-based security solution that provides a trusted computing environment. SGX creates an isolated memory area called enclave and prevents any illegal access from outside of the enclave. SGX only allows...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cybersecurity and Computer Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,727 Views
16 Pages

10 November 2022

A consortium system can leverage information to improve workflows, accountability, and transparency through setting up a backbone for these cross-company and cross-discipline solutions, which make it become a hot spot of market application. Users of...

(This article belongs to the Topic Secure Applications with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,829 Views
18 Pages

GANBA: Generative Adversarial Network for Biometric Anti-Spoofing

  • Alejandro Gomez-Alanis,
  • Jose A. Gonzalez-Lopez and
  • Antonio M. Peinado

29 January 2022

Automatic speaker verification (ASV) is a voice biometric technology whose security might be compromised by spoofing attacks. To increase the robustness against spoofing attacks, presentation attack detection (PAD) or anti-spoofing systems for detect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IberSPEECH 2020: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,186 Views
16 Pages

Development of a Model for Spoofing Attacks in Internet of Things

  • Faheem Khan,
  • Abdullah A. Al-Atawi,
  • Abdullah Alomari,
  • Amjad Alsirhani and ,
  • Mohammed Mujib Alshahrani,
  • Jawad Khan and
  • Youngmoon Lee
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 October 2022

Internet of Things (IoT) allows the integration of the physical world with network devices for proper privacy and security in a healthcare system. IoT in a healthcare system is vulnerable to spoofing attacks that can easily represent themselves as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,945 Views
19 Pages

Data Mining Approach for Evil Twin Attack Identification in Wi-Fi Networks

  • Roman Banakh,
  • Elena Nyemkova,
  • Connie Justice,
  • Andrian Piskozub and
  • Yuriy Lakh

14 October 2024

Recent cyber security solutions for wireless networks during internet open access have become critically important for personal data security. The newest WPA3 network security protocol has been used to maximize this protection; however, attackers can...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems and Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,887 Views
14 Pages

30 April 2024

Existing textual attacks mostly perturb keywords in sentences to generate adversarial examples by relying on the prediction confidence of victim models. In practice, attackers can only access the prediction label, meaning that the victim model can ea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Multidisciplinary Sciences: Latest Advances and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,381 Views
30 Pages

Grid Cyber-Security Strategy in an Attacker-Defender Model

  • Yu-Cheng Chen,
  • Vincent John Mooney and
  • Santiago Grijalva

The progression of cyber-attacks on the cyber-physical system is analyzed by the Probabilistic, Learning Attacker, and Dynamic Defender (PLADD) model. Although our research does apply to all cyber-physical systems, we focus on power grid infrastructu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Hardware Security)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
30,664 Views
28 Pages

The presence of wireless communication grows undeniably more prevalent each year. Since the introduction of the IEEE 802.11 standard for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) in 1997, technologies have progressed to provide wireless accessibility to in...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,179 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2021

Cloud computing is a widely used technology that has changed the way people and organizations store and access information. This technology is versatile, and extensive amounts of data can be stored in the cloud. Businesses can access various services...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,600 Views
20 Pages

Popular Large Language Models (LLMs) access uses website browsing and also faces website fingerprinting attacks. Website fingerprinting attacks have increasingly threatened website users to the leakage of browsing privacy. In addition to the often-us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI in Cybersecurity, 2nd Edition)

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