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Building Europe's Quantum Shield: The Strategic view for a Continent-Wide Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Infrastructure
Leandros Maglaras, Ilias Papastamatiou, Alexios Aivaliotis +2
The fast growth of quantum computing can lead to amazing scientific breakthroughs while on the same time can be used to break today's security systems, raising new risks for existi…
Ember: A Serverless Peer-to-Peer End-to-End Encrypted Messaging System over an IPv6 Mesh Network
Hamish Alsop, Leandros Maglaras, Naghmeh Moradpoor
A substantial body of research has focused on formalising what constitutes a ``secure'' messaging system, recognising that end-to-end encryption alone is insufficient to capture th…
Everyone Needs AIR: An Agnostic Incident Reporting Framework for Cybersecurity in Operational Technology
Nubio Vidal, Naghmeh Moradpoor, Leandros Maglaras
Operational technology (OT) networks are increasingly coupled with information technology (IT), expanding the attack surface and complicating incident response. Although OT standar…
Reliability and Resilience of AI-Driven Critical Network Infrastructure under Cyber-Physical Threats
Konstantinos A. Lizos, Leandros Maglaras, Elena Petrovik +3
The increasing reliance on AI-driven 5G/6G network infrastructures for mission-critical services highlights the need for reliability and resilience against sophisticated cyber-phys…
JamShield: A Machine Learning Detection System for Over-the-Air Jamming Attacks
Ioannis Panitsas, Yagmur Yigit, Leandros Tassiulas +2
Wireless networks are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to the shared communication medium, which can severely degrade performance and disrupt services. Despite extensive research,…
From Prompt Injections to Protocol Exploits: Threats in LLM-Powered AI Agents Workflows
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Norbert Tihanyi, Djallel Hamouda +3
Autonomous AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) with structured function-calling interfaces enable real-time data retrieval, computation, and multi-step orchestration.…
A novel TLS-based Fingerprinting approach that combines feature expansion and similarity mapping
Amanda Thomson, Leandros Maglaras, Naghmeh Moradpoor
Malicious domains are part of the landscape of the internet but are becoming more prevalent and more dangerous to both companies and individuals. They can be hosted on variety of t…
Alignment of Cybersecurity Incident Prioritisation with Incident Response Management Maturity Capabilities
Abdulaziz Gulay, Leandros Maglaras
The increasing frequency and sophistication of cybersecurity incidents pose significant challenges to organisations, highlighting the critical need for robust incident response cap…
ARSecure: A Novel End-to-End Encryption Messaging System Using Augmented Reality
Hamish Alsop, Douglas Alsop, Joseph Solomon +6
End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) ensures that only the intended recipient(s) can read messages. Popular instant messaging (IM) applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, Apple's iMessage,…
Ransomware: Analysis and Evaluation of Live Forensic Techniques and the Impact on Linux based IoT Systems
Salko Korac, Leandros Maglaras, Naghmeh Moradpoor +2
Ransomware has been predominantly a threat to Windows systems. But, Linux systems became interesting for cybercriminals and this trend is expected to continue. This endangers IoT e…
Review of Generative AI Methods in Cybersecurity
Yagmur Yigit, William J Buchanan, Madjid G Tehrani +1
Over the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become increasingly popular, especially with the use of chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and DALL-E. With this rise, large l…
Cyber-Twin: Digital Twin-boosted Autonomous Attack Detection for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Yagmur Yigit, Ioannis Panitsas, Leandros Maglaras +2
The rapid evolution of Vehicular Ad-hoc NETworks (VANETs) has ushered in a transformative era for intelligent transportation systems (ITS), significantly enhancing road safety and…
Toward a real-time TCP SYN Flood DDoS mitigation using Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy classifier and SDN Assistance in Fog Computing
Radjaa Bensaid, Nabila Labraoui, Ado Adamou Abba Ari +4
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has recently impacted our daily lives in many ways. As a result, a massive volume of data is generated and needs to be processed in a sho…
Distance-Only Task Orchestration Algorithm for Energy Efficiency in Satellite-Based Mist Computing
Messaoud Babaghayou, Noureddine Chaib, Leandros Maglaras +2
This paper addresses the challenge of efficiently offloading heavy computing tasks from ground mobile devices to the satellite-based mist computing environment. With ground-based e…
Reliability Analysis of Fault Tolerant Memory Systems
Yagmur Yigit, Leandros Maglaras, Mohamed Amine Ferrag +2
This paper delves into a comprehensive analysis of fault-tolerant memory systems, focusing on recovery techniques modeled using Markov chains to address transient errors. The study…
Scalable Multi-domain Trust Infrastructures for Segmented Networks
Sam Grierson, William J Buchanan, Craig Thomson +3
Within a trust infrastructure, a private key is often used to digitally sign a transaction, which can be verified with an associated public key. Using PKI (Public Key Infrastructur…
Digital Twin-Empowered Smart Attack Detection System for 6G Edge of Things Networks
Yagmur Yigit, Christos Chrysoulas, Gokhan Yurdakul +2
As global Internet of Things (IoT) devices connectivity surges, a significant portion gravitates towards the Edge of Things (EoT) network. This shift prompts businesses to deploy i…
Double Public Key Signing Function Oracle Attack on EdDSA Software Implementations
Sam Grierson, Konstantinos Chalkias, William J Buchanan +1
EdDSA is a standardised elliptic curve digital signature scheme introduced to overcome some of the issues prevalent in the more established ECDSA standard. Due to the EdDSA standar…
A Blockchain-based two Factor Honeytoken Authentication System
Vasilis Papaspirou, Leandros Maglaras, Ioanna Kantzavelou +2
This paper extends and advances our recently introduced two-factor Honeytoken authentication method by incorporating blockchain technology. This novel approach strengthens the auth…
Generative Adversarial Networks-Driven Cyber Threat Intelligence Detection Framework for Securing Internet of Things
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Djallel Hamouda, Merouane Debbah +2
While the benefits of 6G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) are numerous, providing high-speed, low-latency communication that brings new opportunities for innovation and forms the f…
Review of the NIST Light-weight Cryptography Finalists
William J Buchanan, Leandros Maglaras
Since 2016, NIST has been assessing lightweight encryption methods, and, in 2022, NIST published the final 10: ASCON, Elephant, GIFT-COFB, Grain128-AEAD, ISAP, Photon-Beetle, Romul…
Inferring probabilistic Boolean networks from steady-state gene data samples
Vytenis Šliogeris, Leandros Maglaras, Sotiris Moschoyiannis
Probabilistic Boolean Networks have been proposed for estimating the behaviour of dynamical systems as they combine rule-based modelling with uncertainty principles. Inferring PBNs…
A Health Focused Text Classification Tool (HFTCT)
Baadr Suleman M Alwheepy, Leandros Maglaras, Nick Ayres
Due to the high number of users on social media and the massive amounts of queries requested every second to share a new video, picture, or message, social platforms struggle to ma…
Cybersecurity Revisited: Honeytokens meet Google Authenticator
Vasilis Papaspirou, Maria Papathanasaki, Leandros Maglaras +4
Although sufficient authentication mechanisms were enhanced by the use of two or more factors that resulted in new multi factor authentication schemes, more sophisticated and targe…