Smartphone devices have become an essential part of our daily activities for performing various essential applications containing very confidential information. For this reason, the security of the device and the transactions is required to ensure th...
Mobility of sensor node in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) brings security issues such as re-authentication and tracing the node movement. However, current security researches on WSN are insufficient to support such environments since their designs on...
Mobile devices have become integral to daily life, necessitating robust user authentication methods to safeguard personal information. In this study, we present a new approach to mobile user authentication utilizing ear-touch interactions. Our novel...
Cybersecurity, complimenting authentication, has become the backbone of the Internet of Things. In the authentication process, the word authentication is of the utmost importance, as it is the door through which both Mr. Right Guy and Mr. Wrong Guy c...
Current state of the art authentication systems for mobile devices primarily rely on single point of entry authentication which imposes several flaws. For example, an attacker obtaining an unlocked device can potentially use and exploit it until the...
This paper proposes an image authentication scheme for mobile devices. The proposed scheme generates an image watermark by using discrete cosine transform (DCT) and hides the watermark in the spatial pixels for image authentication and tamper detecti...
The proliferation of digital financial innovations like mobile money has led to the rise in mobile subscriptions and transactions. It has also increased the security challenges associated with the current two-factor authentication (2FA) scheme for mo...
This paper presents a text independent speaker authentication method adapted to mobile devices. Special attention was placed on delivering a fully operational application, which admits a sufficient reliability level and an efficient functioning. To t...
Wireless, satellite, and mobile networks are increasingly used in application scenarios to provide advanced services to mobile or nomadic devices. For example, to authenticate mobile users while obtaining access to remote services, a two-factor authe...
Mobile banking, shopping, and in-app purchases utilize persistent authentication states for access to sensitive data. One-shot authentication permits access for a fixed time period. For instance, a username/password-based authentication allows a user...
With the expansion of smartphone and financial technologies (FinTech), mobile money emerged to improve financial inclusion in many developing nations. The majority of the mobile money schemes used in these nations implement two-factor authentication...
Emerging Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) technologies offer a new world of promise by leveraging the quality of mobile services. With MCC, resource-constrained mobile devices could capitalize on the computation/storage resources of cloud servers via com...
Smartphones are an integral cog of the IoT environment and a fundamental bloc of any related security solution, given that IoT mobile applications allow users not only to get information, but also to influence the environment. This paper presents a m...
Continuous authentication systems for mobile devices focus on identifying users according to their behaviour patterns when they interact with mobile devices. Among the benefits provided by these systems, we highlight the enhancement of the system sec...
During the last few years, smart mobile devices have constituted an indispensable part of our lives, being a main element for many daily activities. However, it is well known that several security and privacy concerns still occur, especially taking i...
With the advent of smart mobile devices, end users get used to transmitting and storing their individual privacy in them, which, however, has aroused prominent security concerns inevitably. In recent years, numerous researchers have primarily propose...
Facial authentication has gained widespread adoption as a biometric authentication method, offering a convenient alternative to traditional password-based systems, particularly on mobile devices equipped with front-facing cameras. While this technolo...
The rapid development of intelligent vehicle networking technology has posed new requirements for in-vehicle gateway authentication security in the heterogeneous Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The current research on network layer authentication mechani...
Currently, the use of biometric systems is increasing following the increase in the non-face-to-face security transactions in the Health Care sector, where smart devices are extensively used. Additionally, hospital patients or their guardians had to...
The Internet has become the main transmission media in modern information systems due to the popularization of information technology and the rapid development of network technology. To use the Internet, we need complete security mechanisms which inc...
In today’s society, Global Mobile Networks (GLOMONETs) have become an important network infrastructure that provides seamless roaming service for mobile users when they leave their home network. Authentication is an essential mechanism for secu...
The rapid growth of mobile payment systems has positioned Near Field Communication (NFC) as a core enabling technology. However, conventional NFC protocols primarily emphasize transmission efficiency rather than robust authentication and privacy prot...
Smartphones are context-aware devices that provide a compelling platform for ubiquitous computing and assist users in accomplishing many of their routine tasks anytime and anywhere, such as sending and receiving emails. The nature of tasks conducted...
Continuous authentication (CA) is the process to verify the user’s identity regularly without their active participation. CA is becoming increasingly important in the mobile environment in which traditional one-time authentication methods are suscept...
We introduce a two-stream model to use reflexive eye movements for smart mobile device authentication. Our model is based on two pre-trained neural networks, iTracker and PredNet, targeting two independent tasks: (i) gaze tracking and (ii) future fra...
The rapid development of mobile computing (e.g., mobile health, mobile payments, and smart homes) has brought great convenience to our lives. It is well-known that the security and privacy of user information from these applications and services is c...
Authentication and authorization constitute the essential security component, access control, for preventing unauthorized access to cloud services in mobile cloud computing (MCC) environments. Traditional centralized access control models relying on...
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a system for authenticating an individual’s identity using two or more pieces of data (known as factors). The reason for using more than two factors is to further strengthen security through the use of addit...
Static, one-time authentication mechanisms such as passwords and PINs are increasingly inadequate for protecting mobile devices throughout an active session. Behavioral biometric continuous authentication (BBCA) addresses this gap by passively monito...
Smart mobile phones are widely popularized and advanced mobile communication services are provided increasingly often, such that ubiquitous computing environments will soon be a reality. However, there are many security threats to mobile networks and...
With the popularity of smartphones and the development of hardware, mobile devices are widely used by people. To ensure availability and security, how to protect private data in mobile devices without disturbing users has become a key issue. Mobile u...
In an era of tremendous development in information technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), security plays a key role in safety devices connected with the Internet. Authentication is vital in the security field, and to achieve a strong authentica...
In this paper, a light-weight radio frequency fingerprinting identification (RFFID) scheme that combines with a two-layer model is proposed to realize authentications for a large number of resource-constrained terminals under the mobile edge computin...
As the number of European Union (EU) visitors grows, implementing novel border control solutions, such as mobile devices for passenger identification for land and sea border control, becomes paramount to ensure the convenience and safety of passenger...
Smartphones as ubiquitous gadgets are rapidly becoming more intelligent and context-aware as sensing, networking, and processing capabilities advance. These devices provide users with a comprehensive platform to undertake activities such as socializi...
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 rate at which smartphones are currently evolving, more and more of human life will be contained in these devices. At a time when data privacy is extremely important, it is crucial to protect one’s mobile device. In this paper, we propo...
With the developments in communication and mobile technologies, mobile users can access roaming services by utilizing a mobile device at any time and any place in the global mobility networks. However, these require several security requirements, suc...
As smart devices have become commonly used to access internet banking applications, these devices constitute appealing targets for fraudsters. Impersonation attacks are an essential concern for internet banking providers. Therefore, user authenticati...
Traditional authentication methods (e.g., password, PIN) often do not scale well to the context of mobile devices in terms of security and usability. However, the adoption of Near Field Communication (NFC) on a broad range of smartphones enables the...
The rapid growth of smartphone financial services raises the need for secure mobile authentication. Continuous authentication is a user-friendly way to strengthen the security of smartphones by implicitly monitoring a user’s identity through se...
A three-party Authenticated Key Agreement (AKA) protocol in the distributed computing environment is a client that requests services from an application server through an authentication server. The authentication server is responsible for authenticat...
The roaming service enables a remote user to get desired services, while roaming in a foreign network through the help of his home network. The authentication is a pre-requisite for secure communication between a foreign network and the roaming user,...
The design and implementation of two-factor schemes designed for roaming mobile users for global mobility networks in smart cities requires attention to protect the scheme from various security attacks, such as the replay attack, impersonation attack...
Many novel, effective, and efficient applications and networking services are being developed for the Social Internet of Things. Recently, Li proposed a more secure and efficient authentication scheme with roaming service and user anonymity for mobil...
Access management of IoT devices is extremely important, and a secure login authentication scheme can effectively protect users’ privacy. However, traditional authentication schemes are threatened by shoulder-surfing attacks, and biometric-base...
Implicit authentication mechanisms are expected to prevent security and privacy threats for mobile devices using behavior modeling. However, recently, researchers have demonstrated that the performance of behavioral biometrics is insufficiently accur...
Throughout the past several decades, mobile devices have evolved in capability and popularity at growing rates while improvement in security has fallen behind. As smartphones now hold mass quantities of sensitive information from millions of people a...
Personal mobile devices currently have access to a significant portion of their user’s private sensitive data and are increasingly used for processing mobile payments. Consequently, securing access to these mobile devices is a requirement for securin...
Physical-layer authentication can address physical layer vulnerabilities and security threats in wireless sensor networks, and has been considered as an effective complementary enhancement to existing upper-layer authentication mechanisms. In this pa...
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