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most citedCyber Security in the Age of COVID-19: A Timeline and Analysis of Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Attacks during the Pandemic

674 citations · 2k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

Cyber-Security Challenges in Aviation Industry: A Review of Current and Future Trends

Elochukwu Ukwandu, Mohamed Amine Ben Farah, Hanan Hindy +4

The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools into mechanical devices found in aviation industry has raised security concerns. The more integrated the sys…

cs.CR2021★ 3 cited

Securing the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Roberto Metere, Myriam Neaimeh, Charles Morisset +3

Electric Vehicles (EVs) can help alleviate our reliance on fossil fuels for transport and electricity systems. However, charging millions of EV batteries requires management to pre…

cs.CR2021★ 4 cited

Utilising Flow Aggregation to Classify Benign Imitating Attacks

Hanan Hindy, Robert Atkinson, Christos Tachtatzis +3

Cyber-attacks continue to grow, both in terms of volume and sophistication. This is aided by an increase in available computational power, expanding attack surfaces, and advancemen…

cs.SE2021

PatrIoT: IoT Automated Interoperability and Integration Testing Framework

Miroslav Bures, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Vaclav Rechtberger +6

With the rapid growth of the contemporary Internet of Things (IoT) market, the established systems raise a number of concerns regarding the reliability and the potential presence o…

cs.CR2021

Review of Specific Features and Challenges in the Current Internet of Things Systems Impacting their Security and Reliability

Miroslav Bures, Matej Klima, Vaclav Rechtberger +3

The current development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology poses significant challenges to researchers and industry practitioners. Among these challenges, security and reli…

cs.SE2020

Quality and Reliability Metrics for IoT Systems: A Consolidated View

Matej Klima, Vaclav Rechtberger, Miroslav Bures +3

Quality and reliability metrics play an important role in the evaluation of the state of a system during the development and testing phases, and serve as tools to optimize the test…

cs.CR2020

A Review of Cyber-Ranges and Test-Beds: Current and Future Trends

Elochukwu Ukwandu, Mohamed Amine Ben Farah, Hanan Hindy +7

Cyber situational awareness has been proven to be of value in forming a comprehensive understanding of threats and vulnerabilities within organisations, as the degree of exposure i…

cs.SE2020

Interoperability and Integration Testing Methods for IoT Systems: a Systematic Mapping Study

Miroslav Bures, Matej Klima, Vaclav Rechtberger +4

The recent active development of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in various domains has led to an increased demand for security, safety, and reliability of these systems. Securi…

cs.CR2020★ 674 cited

Cyber Security in the Age of COVID-19: A Timeline and Analysis of Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Attacks during the Pandemic

Harjinder Singh Lallie, Lynsay A. Shepherd, Jason R. C. Nurse +4

The COVID-19 pandemic was a remarkable unprecedented event which altered the lives of billions of citizens globally resulting in what became commonly referred to as the new-normal…

cs.CR2020★ 226 cited

Utilising Deep Learning Techniques for Effective Zero-Day Attack Detection

Hanan Hindy, Robert Atkinson, Christos Tachtatzis +3

Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) have been used for building Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). The increase in both the number and sheer variety of new cyber-attacks p…

cs.CR2020★ 41 cited

Leveraging Siamese Networks for One-Shot Intrusion Detection Model

Hanan Hindy, Christos Tachtatzis, Robert Atkinson +5

The use of supervised Machine Learning (ML) to enhance Intrusion Detection Systems has been the subject of significant research. Supervised ML is based upon learning by example, de…

cs.CR2020★ 3 cited

Machine Learning Based IoT Intrusion Detection System: An MQTT Case Study (MQTT-IoT-IDS2020 Dataset)

Hanan Hindy, Ethan Bayne, Miroslav Bures +3

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main research fields in the Cybersecurity domain. This is due to (a) the increased dependency on automated device, and (b) the inadequacy…

cs.CR2019

A Security Perspective on Unikernels

Joshua Talbot, Przemek Pikula, Craig Sweetmore +5

Cloud-based infrastructures have grown in popularity over the last decade leveraging virtualisation, server, storage, compute power and network components to develop flexible appli…

cs.CR2019★ 20 cited

Cyber-Security Internals of a Skoda Octavia vRS: A Hands on Approach

Colin Urquhart, Xavier Bellekens, Christos Tachtatzis +3

The convergence of information technology and vehicular technologies are a growing paradigm, allowing information to be sent by and to vehicles. This information can further be pro…

cs.CR2019

From Cyber-Security Deception To Manipulation and Gratification Through Gamification

Xavier Bellekens, Gayan Jayasekara, Hanan Hindy +4

With the ever growing networking capabilities and services offered to users, attack surfaces have been increasing exponentially, additionally, the intricacy of network architecture…

cs.CR2019★ 23 cited

Improving SIEM for Critical SCADA Water Infrastructures Using Machine Learning

Hanan Hindy, David Brosset, Ethan Bayne +2

Network Control Systems (NAC) have been used in many industrial processes. They aim to reduce the human factor burden and efficiently handle the complex process and communication o…

cs.NI2018

A Comprehensive View on Quality Characteristics of the IoT Solutions

Miroslav Bures, Xavier Bellekens, Karel Frajtak +1

Categorization of quality characteristics helps in a more effective structuring of the testing process and in the determination of properties, which can be verified in the system u…

cs.CR2018★ 2 cited

Mayall: A Framework for Desktop JavaScript Auditing and Post-Exploitation Analysis

Adam Rapley, Xavier Bellekens, Lynsay A. Shepherd +1

Writing desktop applications in JavaScript offers developers the opportunity to write cross-platform applications with cutting edge capabilities. However in doing so, they are pote…

cs.CR2018

A Taxonomy of Malicious Traffic for Intrusion Detection Systems

Hanan Hindy, Elike Hodo, Ethan Bayne +3

With the increasing number of network threats it is essential to have a knowledge of existing and new network threats in order to design better intrusion detection systems. In this…

cs.CR2018★ 275 cited

A Taxonomy of Network Threats and the Effect of Current Datasets on Intrusion Detection Systems

Hanan Hindy, David Brosset, Ethan Bayne +4

As the world moves towards being increasingly dependent on computers and automation, building secure applications, systems and networks are some of the main challenges faced in the…

cs.CR2017★ 11 cited

Deep Learning Based Cryptographic Primitive Classification

Gregory D. Hill, Xavier J. A. Bellekens

Cryptovirological augmentations present an immediate, incomparable threat. Over the last decade, the substantial proliferation of crypto-ransomware has had widespread consequences…

cs.CR2017★ 20 cited

Machine Learning Approach for Detection of nonTor Traffic

Elike Hodo, Xavier Bellekens, Ephraim Iorkyase +3

Intrusion detection has attracted a considerable interest from researchers and industries. After many years of research the community still faces the problem of building reliable a…

cs.NE2017★ 444 cited

Threat analysis of IoT networks Using Artificial Neural Network Intrusion Detection System

Elike Hodo, Xavier Bellekens, Andrew Hamilton +4

The Internet of things (IoT) is still in its infancy and has attracted much interest in many industrial sectors including medical fields, logistics tracking, smart cities and autom…

cs.DC2017★ 7 cited

GLoP: Enabling Massively Parallel Incident Response Through GPU Log Processing

Xavier Bellekens, Christos Tachtatzis, Robert Atkinson +2

Large industrial systems that combine services and applications, have become targets for cyber criminals and are challenging from the security, monitoring and auditing perspectives…