Security identification solutions against WLAN network attacks according to straightforward digital detectors, such as SSID, IP addresses, and MAC addresses, are not efficient in identifying such hacking or router impersonation. These detectors can b...
Communications between nodes in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) are inherently vulnerable to security attacks, which may mean disruption to the system. Therefore, the security and privacy issues in VANETs are entitled to be the most important. To...
In a distributed wireless sensor network (DWSN), sensors continuously perceive the environment, collect data, and transmit it to remote users through the network so as to realize real-time monitoring of the environment or specific targets. However, g...
We consider authenticating multicast messages in the case of extremely narrow communication channels, such as underwater acoustic communication, with devices such as mobile sensors creating a self-organizing autonomous network. Channel characteristic...
This article examines authority impersonation as a structured mechanism of digital victimization through an in-depth qualitative case study of a Vietnamese transnational cyber fraud network. Drawing on a pseudonymized criminal judgment concerning the...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are networks of small devices with limited resources which are able to collect different information for a variety of purposes. Energy and security play a key role in these networks and MAC aspects are fundamental in t...
Vinoth et al. proposed an authenticated key agreement scheme for industrial IoT (Internet of Things) applications. Vinoth et al.’s scheme aimed to protect the remote sensing data of industrial IoT devices under hostile environments. The scheme is int...
User authentication in wireless sensor networks is more difficult than in traditional networks owing to sensor network characteristics such as unreliable communication, limited resources, and unattended operation. For these reasons, various authentic...
Impersonation-based attacks on wireless networks are easy to perform and can significantly impact network security. Their detection is problematic due to the attacks utilizing legitimate functions. This paper proposes a novel algorithm based on Obser...
As an essential part of Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have touched every aspect of our lives, such as health monitoring, environmental monitoring and traffic monitoring. However, due to its openness, wireless sensor networ...
This manuscript presents a novel mechanism (at the physical layer) for authentication and transmitter identification in a body-centric nanoscale communication system operating in the terahertz (THz) band. The unique characteristics of the propagation...
Internet of Things (IoT) environments such as smart homes, smart factories, and smart buildings have become a part of our lives. The services of IoT environments are provided through wireless networks to legal users. However, the wireless network is...
This study proposes a two-stage Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for Controller Area Networks (CAN) that leverages protocol-specific timing characteristics. Modern vehicular networks are vulnerable to injection attacks due to the CAN protocol’s...
Authentication protocols are often used in smart grids to deliver the necessary level of security. A huge number of clients in such a system, however, provides the attacker with the ability to clone them, for example. Device fingerprints, or Physical...
Impersonation attacks causing online fraud are a growing challenge for digital services, demanding the integration of biometric and behavioral factors into traditional authentication methods. Behavioral impersonation detection during online sessions...
Key agreements that use only password authentication are convenient in communication networks, but these key agreement schemes often fail to resist possible attacks, and therefore provide poor security compared with some other authentication schemes....
To provide secure communication, the authentication-and-key-agreement scheme plays a vital role in multi-server environments, Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), etc. This scheme enables users and servers to negotiate for a com...
With the advancement of the Internet of Things, the LoRa Alliance produced the Long-Range Wide-Area Network (LoRaWAN) Specification, allowing end-devices to transit through a gateway and join the LoRa network after completing a join procedure. When a...
The advancement of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) have led to significant progress in medical and health care systems. However, such networks still suffer from major security and privacy threats, especially for the data collected in medical or he...
With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), maintaining data confidentiality and protecting user privacy have become increasingly challenging. End devices in the IoT are often deployed in unattended environments and connected to open networks, mak...
Phishing, especially brand impersonation attacks, is a critical cybersecurity threat that harms user trust and organization security. This paper establishes a lightweight model for real-time detection that relies on URL-only sequences, addressing lim...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are of prominent use in unmanned surveillance applications. This peculiar trait of WSNs is actually the underlying technology of various applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) such as smart homes, smart cities, s...
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications face a critical security threat from impersonation attacks, where adversaries impersonate legitimate entities to infiltrate networks to obtain private data...
Many biometric systems based on physiological traits such as ones facial characteristics, iris, and fingerprint have been developed for authentication purposes. Such security systems, however, commonly suffer from impersonation attacks such as obfusc...
To improve the quality of service and reduce the possibility of security attacks, a secure and efficient user authentication mechanism is required for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT). Session key establishment between...
Wireless medical sensor networks (WMSNs) have evolved alongside the development of communication systems, and the integration of cloud computing has enabled scalable and efficient medical data management. However, since the messages in WMSNs are tran...
The importance of network security has increased with the emergence of networked systems in contemporary computing, making it an essential aspect of protecting digital assets and safeguarding against cyber threats. The current security mechanisms, wh...
Wireless sensor networks are widely used in many applications such as environmental monitoring, health care, smart grid and surveillance. Many security protocols have been proposed and intensively studied due to the inherent nature of wireless networ...
The current advances in cloud-based services have significantly enhanced individual satisfaction in numerous modern life areas. Particularly, the recent spectacular innovations in the wireless body area networks (WBAN) domain have made e-Care service...
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...
Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) formed by cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) require formally proven secure and resource-efficient authentication because open wireless channels allow active adversaries to inject commands, replay traffic, and...
Continuous authentication allows devices to keep checking that the active user is still the rightful owner instead of relying on a single login. However, current methods can be tricked by forging faces, revealing personal data, or draining the batter...
In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), location-based applications have introduced new challenges in terms of location spoofing. With an open and shared wireless medium, a malicious spoofer can impersonate active devices, gain access to the...
Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET) are also known as intelligent transportation systems. VANET ensures timely and accurate communications between vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) to improve road safety and enhance the effic...
Online Behavioural Advertising (OBA) enables promotion companies to effectively target users with ads that best satisfy their purchasing needs. This is highly beneficial for both vendors and publishers who are the owners of the advertising platforms,...
Robust security is highly coveted in real wireless sensor network (WSN) applications since wireless sensors’ sense critical data from the application environment. This article presents an efficient and adaptive mutual authentication framework that s...
The rapid deployment of the Internet of Drones (IoD) across different fields has brought forth enormous security threats in real-time data communication. To overcome authentication vulnerabilities, this paper introduces a secure lightweight framework...
With the increasing number of users and the emergence of different types of network services, a multi-server architecture has emerged in recent years. In order to ensure the secure communication of Internet participants in an open network environment...
The World Wide Web is evolving rapidly, and the Internet is now accessible to millions of users, providing them with the means to access a wealth of information, entertainment and e-commerce opportunities. Web browsing is largely impersonal and anony...
In the era of digital communication and social networking, the authenticity and integrity of personal social network profiles have become crucial for establishing trust and ensuring secure interactions. Existing methods often suffer from vulnerabilit...
Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) are employed in many real-time applications, such as Internet of sensors (IoS), Internet of vehicles (IoV), healthcare monitoring, and so on. As wireless sensor nodes have constrained computing, storage...
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is used in the medical ecosystem through medical IoT sensors, such as blood glucose, heart rate, temperature, and pulse sensors. To maintain a secure sensor network and a stable IoMT environment, it is important...
User authentication and key management are two important security issues in WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks). In WSNs, for some applications, the user needs to obtain real-time data directly from sensors and several user authentication schemes have be...
Phishing is an online threat where an attacker impersonates an authentic and trustworthy organization to obtain sensitive information from a victim. One example of such is trolling, which has long been considered a problem. However, recent advances i...
A distinct security protocol is necessary for the exponential growth in intelligent edge devices. In particular, the autonomous devices need to address significant security concern to function smoothly in the high market demand. Nevertheless, exponen...
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...
In recent years, the proliferation of forged videos, known as deepfakes, has escalated significantly, primarily due to advancements in technologies such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), diffusion models, and Vision Language Models (VLMs). T...
Visual dialog demonstrates several important aspects of multimodal artificial intelligence; however, it is hindered by visual grounding and visual coreference resolution problems. To overcome these problems, we propose the novel neural module network...
The edge devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures are increasingly susceptible to piracy. These pirated edge devices pose a serious threat to security, as an adversary can get access to the private network through these non-a...
There are many security challenges in IoT, especially related to the authentication of restricted devices in long-distance and low-throughput networks. Problems such as impersonation, privacy issues, and excessive battery usage are some of the existi...
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