Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are being used more and more in a variety of fields, including the environment, energy efficiency, smart transportation, intelligent agriculture, and in Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. They are also anticipated to...
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network (VANET), a vital component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology, relies on communication between dynamically connected vehicles and static Road Side Units (RSU) to offer various applications (e.g., collision...
Recently, the process control network (PCN) of oil and gas installation has been subjected to amorphous cyber-attacks. Examples include the denial-of-service (DoS), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, and this...
As technology advances, the services provided by domain servers require new innovative techniques that can be optimized for frequent changes. Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on Domain Name Servers (DNS) pose a security threat, enabling attackers to...
We address a class of authentication protocols called “HB” ones and the man-in-the-middle (MIM) attack, reported at the ASIACRYPT conference, called OOV-MIM (Ouafi-Overbeck-Vaudenay MIM). Analysis of the considered attack and its systemat...
With the widespread adoption of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) in smart substations, the real-time data transmission and interoperability features of the IEC 61850 communication standard play a crucial role in ensuring seamless automation syst...
An application of quantum communications is the transmission of qubits to create shared symmetric encryption keys in a process called quantum key distribution (QKD). Contrary to public-private key encryption, symmetric encryption is considered safe f...
One of the main vulnerabilities in robotic systems lies in the communication buses that enable low-level controllers to interact with the actuators responsible for the robot’s movements. In this context, hardware attacks represent a significant...
The low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies, which enable cost and energy-efficient wireless connectivity for massive deployments of autonomous machines, have enabled and boosted the development of many new Internet of things (IoT) applications; howe...
The Internet of Things (IoT) necessitates secure and lightweight firmware over-the-air (FOTA) update mechanisms for remote device management and timely mitigation of security vulnerabilities. This study introduces an FOTA update method to mitigate ma...
This paper reconsiders a powerful man-in-the-middle attack against Random-HB# and HB# authentication protocols, two prominent representatives of the HB family of protocols, which are built based on the Learning Parity in Noise (LPN) problem. A recent...
The trend in self-tracking devices has remained unabated for years. Even if they record a large quantity of sensitive data, most users are not concerned about their data being transmitted and stored in a secure way from the device via the companion a...
Internet of Things (IoT) is a developing technology that provides the simplicity and benefits of exchanging data with other devices using the cloud or wireless networks. However, the changes and developments in the IoT environment are making IoT syst...
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and big data has catalyzed the emergence of data markets. Regulatory and technological frameworks such as International Data Spaces (IDS) have been developed to facilitate secure data exchange whi...
Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs) play a critical role in Industry 4.0 environments, enabling real-time monitoring and control of industrial processes. However, existing lightweight authentication protocols for IWSNs remain vulnerable to so...
The Extensible Authentication Protocol–Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) is a critical authentication protocol for wireless networks and secure IoT communications. However, it faces significant challenges from man-in-the-middle attacks, includ...
Recently, smart cities have increasingly been experiencing an evolution to improve the lifestyle of citizens and society. These emerge from the innovation of information and communication technologies (ICT) which are able to create a new economic and...
Device-to-Device (D2D) is a major part of 5G that will facilitate deployments with extended coverage where devices can act as users or relays. These relays normally act as decode and forward relays (semi-intelligent devices) with limited computationa...
We consider a man-in-the-middle attack on two-way quantum key distribution ping-pong and LM05 protocols in which an eavesdropper copies all messages in the message mode, while being undetectable in the mode. Under the attack there is therefore no dis...
In recent years, the combination of wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) and the Internet ofc Medical Things (IoMT) marked a transformative era in healthcare technology. This combination allowed for the smooth communication between medical devices t...
Smart grids are becoming increasingly popular thanks to their ability to operate with higher precision and smaller margins. Dynamic operation control in smart grids can be achieved with phasor measurement unit (PMU) based wide area monitoring and con...
Due to the prevalence and constantly increasing risk of cyber-attacks, new and evolving security mechanisms are required to protect information and networks and ensure the basic security principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability&mdas...
Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning technique where clients exchange only local model updates with a central server that combines them to create a global model after local training. While FL offers privacy benefits through local training, p...
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a widely used protocol that provides a mapping of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to Media Access Control (MAC) addresses in local area networks. This protocol suffers from many spoofing attacks because of its st...
Across the globe, wireless devices with Internet facilities such as smartphones and tablets have become essential assets for communication and entertainment alike for everyday life for millions of people, which increases the network traffic and the d...
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are equipped with numerous sensors, and data is transmitted through networks. Attackers may remotely compromise unmanned surface vehicle (USV) systems and commit criminal acts via networks, causing USVs to deviate fro...
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, SSL, are important cryptographic protocol suites on the Internet. They both implement public key certificates and rely on a group of trusted certificate authorities (i.e., CAs) for peer authenticati...
The networks on a centralized cloud architecture that interconnect Internet of Things (IoT) gadgets are not limited by national or jurisdictional borders. To ensure the secure sharing of sensitive user data among IoT gadgets, it is imperative to main...
With the rapid growth of network technologies, users are used to accessing various services with their mobile devices. To ensure security and privacy in mobility networks, proper mechanisms to authenticate the mobile user are essential. In this paper...
With the rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world, thousands of mobile users share many data with each other daily. IoT communication has been developed in the past few years to ensure direct connection among mobile users. Ho...
One of the main sources of entertainment is live video streaming platforms, which allow viewers to watch video streams in real time. However, because of the increasing demand for high quality content, the vulnerability of streaming systems against cy...
OT (operational technology) protocols such as DNP3/TCP, commonly used in the electrical utility sector, have become a focal point for security researchers. We assess the applicability of attacks previously published from theoretical and practical poi...
Adversarial attacks targeting industrial control systems, such as the Maroochy wastewater system attack and the Stuxnet worm attack, have caused significant damage to related facilities. To enhance the security of industrial control systems, recent r...
In 2019, Zhou et al. proposed semi-quantum identification (also known as semi-quantum authentication, SQA), which proceeds under a measure-resend and measurement-free environment. However, Zhou et al.’s SQA protocol suffers from severe informat...
The widespread use of GPS tracking devices has made them an indispensable solution in various sectors such as transportation, logistics, and security. However, the complexity of cyber attacks such as denial of service (DoS) attacks have made these de...
In the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), impersonation, eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle and other attacks occur in the process of communication between entities through public channels, which will lead to the leakage of user privacy or the inc...
In this paper, we have proposed a two-party authenticated key establishment (AKE), and authenticated key transport protocols based on lattice-based cryptography, aiming to provide security against quantum attacks for secure communication. This protoc...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) has recently gained popularity in several military, commercial, and civilian applications due to its unique characteristics, such as high mobility, three-dimensional (3D) movement, and ease of deployment. Drones, on the o...
Control-flow attestation (CFA) is a mechanism that securely logs software execution paths running on remote devices. It can detect whether a device is being control-flow hijacked by launching a challenge–response process. In the growing landsca...
In the context of increasing demand for secure and efficient communication networks, addressing the issue of mutual authentication in ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) has become both valuable and practically significant. This paper proposes...
Single sign-on (SSO) techniques allow access control for multiple systems with a single login. The aim of our study is to construct an authentication algorithm that provides the authentication information of a user to a requester without requiring an...
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITSs) are essential for secure and privacy-preserving communications in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and enhance facilities like connectivity and roadside assistance. Earlier research models used for traffic management com...
With the development of vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) and Internet of vehicles (IoVs), a large amount of useful information is generated for vehicle drivers and traffic management systems. The amount of vehicle and traffic information is as larg...
Recently, Zhao et al. proposed a semi-quantum bi-signature (SQBS) scheme based on W states with two quantum signers and just one classical verifier. In this study, we highlight three security issues with Zhao et al.’s SQBS scheme. In Zhao et al...
We propose an entanglement-based quantum bit string commitment protocol whose composability is proven in the random oracle model. This protocol has the additional property of preserving the privacy of the committed message. Even though this property...
In 2010, Yeh et al. proposed two robust remote user authentication schemes using smart cards; their claims were such that their schemes defended against ID-theft attacks, reply attacks, undetectable on-line password guessing attacks, off-line passwor...
Users encounter various threats, such as cross-site scripting attacks and session hijacking, when they perform login operations in the browser. These attacks pose significant risks to the integrity and confidentiality of personal data. The browser fi...
In the current 5G vehicle network system, there are security issues such as wireless intrusion, privacy leakage, and remote control. To address these challenges, an improved lightweight anonymous authentication key negotiation scheme based on certifi...
This work presents an efficient and effective system allowing hospitals to share patients’ private information while ensuring that each hospital database’s medical records will not be leaked; moreover, the privacy of patients who access t...
Distributed digital identity is an emerging identity management technology aimed at achieving comprehensive interconnectivity between digital objects. However, there is still the problem of privacy leakage in distributed identities, and selective dis...
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