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A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of UAVs
Yassine Mekdad, Ahmet Aris, Leonardo Babun +4
In the 21st century, the industry of drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has witnessed a rapid increase with its large number of airspace users. The tremendous b…
A Survey of Honeypots and Honeynets for Internet of Things, Industrial Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems
Javier Franco, Ahmet Aris, Berk Canberk +1
The Internet of Things (IoT), the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have become essential for our daily lives in contexts such as our homes, bu…
SoK: Cryptojacking Malware
Ege Tekiner, Abbas Acar, A. Selcuk Uluagac +2
Emerging blockchain and cryptocurrency-based technologies are redefining the way we conduct business in cyberspace. Today, a myriad of blockchain and cryptocurrency systems, applic…
Survey on Enterprise Internet-of-Things Systems (E-IoT): A Security Perspective
Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Ahmet Aris +2
As technology becomes more widely available, millions of users worldwide have installed some form of smart device in their homes or workplaces. These devices are often off-the-shel…
A Survey on Ransomware: Evolution, Taxonomy, and Defense Solutions
Harun Oz, Ahmet Aris, Albert Levi +1
In recent years, ransomware has been one of the most notorious malware targeting end users, governments, and business organizations. It has become a very profitable business for cy…
PoisonIvy: (In)secure Practices of Enterprise IoT Systems in Smart Buildings
Luis Puche Rondon, Leonardo Babun, Ahmet Aris +2
The rise of IoT devices has led to the proliferation of smart buildings, offices, and homes worldwide. Although commodity IoT devices are employed by ordinary end-users, complex en…
Adversarial Attacks to Machine Learning-Based Smart Healthcare Systems
AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Nur Imtiazul Haque, Amit Kumar Sikder +2
The increasing availability of healthcare data requires accurate analysis of disease diagnosis, progression, and realtime monitoring to provide improved treatments to the patients.…
A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues in Modern Healthcare Systems: Attacks and Defenses
AKM Iqridar Newaz, Amit Kumar Sikder, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman +1
The recent advancements in computing systems and wireless communications have made healthcare systems more efficient than before. Modern healthcare devices can monitor and manage d…
A System-level Behavioral Detection Framework for Compromised CPS Devices: Smart-Grid Case
Leonardo Babun, Hidayet Aksu, A. Selcuk Uluagac
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) play a significant role in our critical infrastructure networks from power-distribution to utility networks. The emerging smart-grid concept is a compe…
Real-time Analysis of Privacy-(un)aware IoT Applications
Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik, Patrick McDaniel +1
Users trust IoT apps to control and automate their smart devices. These apps necessarily have access to sensitive data to implement their functionality. However, users lack visibil…
KRATOS: Multi-User Multi-Device-Aware Access Control System for the Smart Home
Amit Kumar Sikder, Leonardo Babun, Z. Berkay Celik +5
In a smart home system, multiple users have access to multiple devices, typically through a dedicated app installed on a mobile device. Traditional access control mechanisms consid…
A Context-aware Framework for Detecting Sensor-based Threats on Smart Devices
Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, A. Selcuk Uluagac
Sensors (e.g., light, gyroscope, accelerometer) and sensing-enabled applications on a smart device make the applications more user-friendly and efficient. However, the current perm…
An Analysis of Malware Trends in Enterprise Networks
Abbas Acar, Long Lu, A. Selcuk Uluagac +1
We present an empirical and large-scale analysis of malware samples captured from two different enterprises from 2017 to early 2018. Particularly, we perform threat vector, social-…
HealthGuard: A Machine Learning-Based Security Framework for Smart Healthcare Systems
AKM Iqtidar Newaz, Amit Kumar Sikder, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman +1
The integration of Internet-of-Things and pervasive computing in medical devices have made the modern healthcare system "smart". Today, the function of the healthcare system is not…
U-PoT: A Honeypot Framework for UPnP-Based IoT Devices
Muhammad A. Hakim, Hidayet Aksu, A. Selcuk Uluagac +1
The ubiquitous nature of the IoT devices has brought serious security implications to its users. A lot of consumer IoT devices have little to no security implementation at all, thu…
IoTDots: A Digital Forensics Framework for Smart Environments
Leonardo Babun, Amit Kumar Sikder, Abbas Acar +1
IoT devices and sensors have been utilized in a cooperative manner to enable the concept of a smart environment. In these smart settings, abundant data is generated as a result of…
Identification of Wearable Devices with Bluetooth
Hidayet Aksu, A. Selcuk Uluagac, Elizabeth S. Bentley
With wearable devices such as smartwatches on the rise in the consumer electronics market, securing these wearables is vital. However, the current security mechanisms only focus on…
Detection of Compromised Smart Grid Devices with Machine Learning and Convolution Techniques
Cengiz Kaygusuz, Leonardo Babun, Hidayet Aksu +1
The smart grid concept has transformed the traditional power grid into a massive cyber-physical system that depends on advanced two-way communication infrastructure to integrate a…
WACA: Wearable-Assisted Continuous Authentication
Abbas Acar, Hidayet Aksu, A. Selcuk Uluagac +1
One-time login process in conventional authentication systems does not guarantee that the identified user is the actual user throughout the session. However, it is necessary to re-…
Sensitive Information Tracking in Commodity IoT
Z. Berkay Celik, Leonardo Babun, Amit K. Sikder +4
Broadly defined as the Internet of Things (IoT), the growth of commodity devices that integrate physical processes with digital connectivity has had profound effects on society--sm…
A Survey on Sensor-based Threats to Internet-of-Things (IoT) Devices and Applications
Amit Kumar Sikder, Giuseppe Petracca, Hidayet Aksu +2
The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has become more popular in the modern era of technology than ever before. From small household devices to large industrial machines, the vis…
Advertising in the IoT Era: Vision and Challenges
Hidayet Aksu, Leonardo Babun, Mauro Conti +2
The Internet of Things (IoT) extends the idea of interconnecting computers to a plethora of different devices, collectively referred to as smart devices. These are physical items -…
Achieving Secure and Differentially Private Computations in Multiparty Settings
Abbas Acar, Z. Berkay Celik, Hidayet Aksu +2
Sharing and working on sensitive data in distributed settings from healthcare to finance is a major challenge due to security and privacy concerns. Secure multiparty computation (S…
6thSense: A Context-aware Sensor-based Attack Detector for Smart Devices
Amit Kumar Sikder, Hidayet Aksu, A. Selcuk Uluagac
Sensors (e.g., light, gyroscope, accelerotmeter) and sensing enabled applications on a smart device make the applications more user-friendly and efficient. However, the current per…