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33 papers
Digital White Spaces: A Cyberpsychology-Informed Framework to Mobile Phone Addiction
Leandros Maglaras, Christina Kyritsi, Helge Janicke +1
Mobile phone overuse and attention fragmentation have become pressing societal and public health concerns. Cyberpsychology research highlights addictive engagement loops driven by…
Innovating Augmented Reality Security: Recent E2E Encryption Approaches
Hamish Alsop, Leandros Maglaras, Helge Janicke +2
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) has emerged as a fundamental element of modern digital communication, protecting data from unauthorized access during transmission. By design, E2EE ens…
SME-TEAM: Leveraging Trust and Ethics for Secure and Responsible Use of AI and LLMs in SMEs
Iqbal H. Sarker, Helge Janicke, Ahmad Mohsin +1
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing today's business practices; however, their adoption within small and medium-sized enterprises (SME…
Can We Trust Large Language Models Generated Code? A Framework for In-Context Learning, Security Patterns, and Code Evaluations Across Diverse LLMs
Ahmad Mohsin, Helge Janicke, Adrian Wood +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have revolutionized automated code generation in software engineering. However, as these models are increasingly uti…
ExplainableDetector: Exploring Transformer-based Language Modeling Approach for SMS Spam Detection with Explainability Analysis
Mohammad Amaz Uddin, Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Leandros Maglaras +2
SMS, or short messaging service, is a widely used and cost-effective communication medium that has sadly turned into a haven for unwanted messages, commonly known as SMS spam. With…
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Generative AI, Challenges, and Opportunities
Yagmur Yigit, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Iqbal H. Sarker +4
Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) encompasses a nation's essential assets that are fundamental to the operation of society and the economy, ensuring the provision of vital uti…
Data-Driven Intelligence can Revolutionize Today's Cybersecurity World: A Position Paper
Iqbal H. Sarker, Helge Janicke, Leandros Maglaras +1
As cyber threats evolve and grow progressively more sophisticated, cyber security is becoming a more significant concern in today's digital era. Traditional security measures tend…
A novel Two-Factor HoneyToken Authentication Mechanism
Vassilis Papaspirou, Leandros Maglaras, Mohamed Amine Ferrag +3
The majority of systems rely on user authentication on passwords, but passwords have so many weaknesses and widespread use that easily raise significant security concerns, regardle…
Smart Homes: Security Challenges and Privacy Concerns
Fraser Hall, Leandros Maglaras, Theodoros Aivaliotis +2
Development and growth of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has exponentially increased over the course of the last 10 years since its inception, and as a result has directly inf…
From Cyber Terrorism to Cyber Peacekeeping: Are we there yet?
Maria Papathanasaki, Georgios Dimitriou, Leandros Maglaras +2
In Cyberspace nowadays, there is a burst of information that everyone has access. However, apart from the advantages the Internet offers, it also hides numerous dangers for both pe…
A NIS Directive compliant Cybersecurity Maturity Assessment Framework
George Drivas, Argyro Chatzopoulou, Leandros Maglaras +3
The NIS Directive introduces obligations for the security of the network and information systems of operators of essential services and of digital service providers and require fro…
Cooperative Speed Estimation of an RF Jammer in Wireless Vehicular Networks
Dimitrios Kosmanos, Savvas Chatzisavvas, Antonios Argyriou +1
In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of estimating the speed of an RF jammer that moves towards a group/platoon of moving wireless communicating nodes. In our system mo…
Authentication and Authorization for Mobile IoT Devices using Bio-features: Recent Advances and Future Trends
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Leandros Maglaras, Abdelouahid Derhab
Bio-features are fast becoming a key tool to authenticate the IoT devices; in this sense, the purpose of this investigation is to summaries the factors that hinder biometrics model…
Threats, Protection and Attribution of Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructures
Leandros Maglaras, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Abdelouahid Derhab +3
As Critical National Infrastructures are becoming more vulnerable to cyber attacks, their protection becomes a significant issue for any organization as well as a nation. Moreover,…
Developing Cyber Buffer Zones
Michael Robinson, Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke +1
The United Nations conducts peace operations around the world, aiming tomaintain peace and security in conflict torn areas. Whilst early operations werelargely successful, the chan…
RF Jamming Classification using Relative Speed Estimation in Vehicular Wireless Networks
Dimitrios Kosmanos, Dimitrios Karagiannis, Antonios Argyriou +2
Wireless communications are vulnerable against radio frequency (RF) jamming which might be caused either intentionally or unintentionally. A particular subset of wireless networks,…
Estimating the Relative Speed of RF Jammers in VANETs
Dimitrios Kosmanos, Antonios Argyriou, Leandros Maglaras
Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) aim at enhancing road safety and providing a comfortable driving environment by delivering early warning and infotainment messages to the drivers…
A Novel Hierarchical Intrusion Detection System based on Decision Tree and Rules-based Models
Ahmed Ahmim, Leandros Maglaras, Mohamed Amine Ferrag +2
This paper proposes a novel intrusion detection system (IDS) that combines different classifier approaches which are based on decision tree and rules-based concepts, namely, REP Tr…
Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Makhlouf Derdour, Mithun Mukherjee +3
This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the existing blockchain protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) networks. We start by describing the blockchains and summarizing th…
Developing Cyber Peacekeeping: Observation, Monitoring and Reporting
Michael Robinson, Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke +1
Cyber peacekeeping is an emerging and multi-disciplinary field of research, touching upon technical, political and societal domains of thought. In this article we build upon previo…
Authentication schemes for Smart Mobile Devices: Threat Models, Countermeasures, and Open Research Issues
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Leandros Maglaras, Abdelouahid Derhab +1
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation of authentication schemes for smart mobile devices. We start by providing an overview of existing survey articles published in the…
Internet of Cloud: Security and Privacy issues
Allan Cook, Michael Robinson, Mohamed Amine Ferrag +4
The synergy between the cloud and the IoT has emerged largely due to the cloud having attributes which directly benefit the IoT and enable its continued growth. IoT adopting Cloud…
Route Optimization of Electric Vehicles based on Dynamic Wireless Charging
Dimitrios Kosmanos, Leandros Maglaras, Michalis Mavrovouniotis +4
One of the barriers to adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is the anxiety around the limited driving range. Recent proposals have explored charging EVs on the move, using dynamic w…
An Introduction to Cyber Peacekeeping
Michael Robinson, Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke +1
Peacekeeping is a noble and essential activity, helping to bring peace to conflict torn areas and providing security to millions of people around the world. Peacekeepers operate in…