5 papers
Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders
Yuhui Zhu, Zhenxiang Chen, Qiben Yan +6
One of the innovations brought by Mirai and its derived malware is the adoption of self-contained loaders for infecting IoT devices and recruiting them in botnets. Functionally dec…
A Machine Learning-based Approach to Detect Threats in Bio-Cyber DNA Storage Systems
Federico Tavella, Alberto Giaretta, Mauro Conti +1
Data storage is one of the main computing issues of this century. Not only storage devices are converging to strict physical limits, but also the amount of data generated by users…
Users' Concern for Privacy in Context-Aware Reasoning Systems
Matthias Forstmann, Alberto Giaretta, Jennifer Renoux
Context-aware reasoning systems allow drawing sophisticated inferences about users' behaviour and physiological condition, by aggregating data from seemingly unrelated sources. We…
Cyber-Storms Come from Clouds: Security of Cloud Computing in the IoT Era
Michele De Donno, Juxhino Kavaja, Nicola Dragoni +2
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing our society to a world where every "thing" is connected to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. This tsunami…
Adding Salt to Pepper: A Structured Security Assessment over a Humanoid Robot
Alberto Giaretta, Michele De Donno, Nicola Dragoni
The rise of connectivity, digitalization, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our society and shaping its future development. During this technological a…