As COVID-19 became a pandemic worldwide, contact tracing technologies and information systems were developed for quick control of infectious diseases in both the private and public sectors. This study aims to strengthen the data subject’s secur...
The role of geodata technologies in humanitarian action is arguably indispensable in determining when, where, and who needs aid before, during, and after a disaster. However, despite the advantages of using geodata technologies in humanitarianism (i....
With the advent of smart devices, smartphones, and smart everything, the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged with an incredible impact on the industries and human life. The IoT consists of millions of clients that exchange massive amounts of critica...
Cloud-native architecture is becoming increasingly popular in today’s digital environment, driving the demand for robust security precautions to protect infrastructure and applications. This paper examines a variety of privacy-enhancing and tru...
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...
Email continues to serve as a primary vector for cyber-attacks, with phishing, spoofing, and polymorphic malware evolving rapidly to evade traditional defences. Conventional email security systems, often reliant on static, signature-based detection s...
Insider threats remain one of the most challenging security risks in modern enterprises due to their subtle behavioral patterns and the difficulty of distinguishing malicious intent from legitimate activity. This paper presents a unified and adaptive...
Instilling good privacy practices to developers and users appears to be a difficult and daunting task. The World Wide Web encompasses a panspermia of different technologies, commercial and open source apis, evolving security standards and protocols t...
The rapid evolution of cyber threats requires intelligence sharing between organizations while ensuring data privacy and contributor credibility. Existing centralized cyber threat intelligence (CTI) systems suffer from single points of failure, priva...
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem has transformed industries but also exposed significant cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Traditional centralized methods for securing IoT networks struggle to balance privacy preservation wi...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has experienced constant growth in the number of devices deployed and the range of applications in which such devices are used. They vary widely in size, computational power, capacity storage, and energy. The explosive gr...
Inference attacks and protection measures are two sides of the same coin. Although the former aims to reveal information while the latter aims to hide it, they both increase awareness regarding the risks and threats from social media apps. On the one...
Extended Reality (XR), encompassing Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR), enables immersive experiences across various fields, including entertainment, healthcare, and education. However, its data-intensive and interac...
Recent advances in signal processing and AI-based inference enable the exploitation of wireless communication signals to collect information on devices, people, actions, and the environment in general, i.e., to perform Integrated Sensing And Communic...
It has been proven in research literature that the analysis of encrypted traffic with statistical analysis and machine learning can reveal the type of activities performed by a user accessing the network, thus leading to privacy risks. In particular,...
With the global energy crisis, increasing demand, and a national-level emphasis on electric vehicles (EVs), numerous innovations are being witnessed throughout the EV industry. EVs are equipped with sensors that maintain a sustainable environment for...
Improvements in technology have led to further enhancements in cyber security threats. Additionally, the mass application of IoT technology and networks has made the ecosystem vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Thus, this study focuses on analysing methods...
The increasing integration of digital technologies in healthcare has expanded the attack surface for privacy violations in critical systems such as electronic health records (EHRs), telehealth platforms, and medical device software. However, current...
The Internet of Things (IoT) makes our lives much easier, more valuable, and less stressful due to the development of many applications around us including smart cities, smart cars, and smart grids, offering endless services and solutions. Protecting...
The internet of things (IoT) is one of the growing platforms of the current era that has encircled a large population into its domain, and life appears to be useless without adopting this technology. A significant amount of data is generated from an...
The smart grid (SG) plays a seminal role in the modern energy landscape by integrating digital technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to enable bidirectional energy flow, real-time monitoring, and enhan...
Smart homes promise to improve the quality of life of residents. However, they collect vasts amounts of personal and sensitive data, making privacy protection critically important. We propose a framework, called PRASH, for modeling and analyzing the...
Permissionless blockchains have evolved beyond cryptocurrency into foundations for Web3 applications, decentralized finance (DeFi), and digital asset ownership, yet this rapid expansion has intensified privacy vulnerabilities. This study provides a c...
The hype of the Internet of Things as an enabler for intelligent applications and related promise for ushering accessibility, efficiency, and quality of service is met with hindering security and data privacy concerns. It follows that such IoT system...
Network traffic analysis can raise privacy concerns due to its ability to reveal sensitive information about individuals and organizations. This paper proposes a privacy-preserving Block-chained AutoML Network Traffic Analyzer (BANTA). The system sec...
The insider threats have always been one of the most severe challenges to cybersecurity. It can lead to the destruction of the organisation’s internal network system and information leakage, which seriously threaten the confidentiality, integri...
In recent years, privacy concerns have become a serious issue for companies wishing to protect economic models and comply with end-user expectations. In the same vein, some countries now impose, by law, constraints on data use and protection. Such co...
The increasing adoption of smart home devices has raised significant concerns regarding privacy, security, and vulnerability to cyber threats. This study addresses these challenges by presenting a federated learning framework enhanced with blockchain...
Ensuring the safe, reliable, and energy-efficient provision of electricity is a complex task for smart grid (SG) management applications. Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing-based SG applications have been proposed for time-responsive monitor...
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is transforming industrial operations through connected devices and real-time automation but also introduces significant cybersecurity risks. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is critical for detecting and mitig...
With the ability to analyze data, artificial intelligence technology and its offshoots have made difficult tasks easier. The tools of these technologies are now used in almost every aspect of life. For example, Machine Learning (ML), an offshoot of a...
Point-of-care systems are generally used in healthcare to respond rapidly and prevent critical health conditions. Hence, POC systems often handle personal health information; and consequently, their cybersecurity and privacy requirements are of cruci...
There is a growing interest in using social robots in public spaces for indoor and outdoor applications. The threat landscape is an important research area being investigated and debated by various stakeholders. Objectives: This study aims to identif...
Determining how to balance data utilities and data privacy when datasets are released to be utilized outside the scope of data-collecting organizations constitutes a major challenge. To achieve this aim in data collection (datasets), several privacy...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized various industries, but the increased dependence on all kinds of IoT devices and the sensitive nature of the data accumulated by them pose a formidable threat to privacy and security. While traditional...
As technologies are rapidly evolving and becoming a crucial part of our lives, security and privacy issues have been increasing significantly. Public and private organizations have highly confidential data, such as bank accounts, military and busines...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has redefined several aspects of our daily lives, including automation and control of the living environment, innovative healthcare services, and much more. Digital IoT devices and sensors, when integrated with home appli...
Historically, threat information sharing has relied on manual modelling and centralised network systems, which can be inefficient, insecure, and prone to errors. Alternatively, private blockchains are now widely used to address these issues and impro...
The increasing reliance on computer networks and blockchain technology has led to a growing concern for cybersecurity and privacy. The emergence of zero-day vulnerabilities and unexpected exploits has highlighted the need for innovative solutions to...
The Metaverse brings together components of parallel processing computing platforms, the digital development of physical systems, cutting-edge machine learning, and virtual identity to uncover a fully digitalized environment with equal properties to...
An Internet of Things (IoT) network is prone to many ways of threatening individuals. IoT sensors are lightweight, lack complicated security protocols, and face threats to privacy and confidentiality. Hackers can attack the IoT network and access per...
The Internet of Things (IoT) plays a vital role in interconnecting physical and virtual objects that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies intending to connect and exchange data with devices and systems around the globe over the...
The IoE forms the foundation of the modern digital ecosystem by enabling seamless connectivity and data exchange among smart devices, sensors, and systems. However, the inherent nature of this structure, characterized by high heterogeneity, distribut...
As the discussions on sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks progress at a rapid pace, various approaches have emerged over the last few years regarding new architectural concepts that can support the 6G vision. Therefore, the goal of this work is t...
This paper identifies and discusses the benefits, threats, and vulnerabilities related to the digital revolution. It aims to motivate research and its funding regarding digital threats and vulnerabilities related, in particular, to anticipating unint...
As Internet of Things (IoT) involvement increases in our daily lives, several security and privacy concerns like linkability, unauthorized conversations, and side-channel attacks are raised. If they are left untouched, such issues may threaten the ex...
The rapid advancements in technology have given rise to groundbreaking solutions and practical applications in the field of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). These advancements have had a profound impact on the structures of numerous industri...
In recent years, the rapid growth of cryptocurrency markets has highlighted the urgent need for advanced security solutions capable of addressing a spectrum of unique threats, from phishing and wallet hacks to complex blockchain vulnerabilities. This...
The advent of online social networks (OSN) has transformed a common passive reader into a content contributor. It has allowed users to share information and exchange opinions, and also express themselves in online virtual communities to interact with...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become deeply embedded in modern society, enabling applications across smart homes, healthcare, industrial automation, and environmental monitoring. However, as billions of interconnected devices continuously collect...
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