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Cybersecurity is a critical concern in society today. One common avenue of attack for malicious hackers is exploiting vulnerable websites. It is estimated that there are over one million websites that are attacked daily. Two emerging targets of such attacks are Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) devices and scientific instruments. Vulnerability assessment tools can help provide owners...
In the last decade, numerous fake websites have been developed on the World Wide Web to mimic trusted websites, with the aim of stealing financial assets from users and organizations. This form of online attack is called phishing, and it has cost the online community and the various stakeholders hundreds of million Dollars. Therefore, effective counter measures that can accurately detect phishing...
Although reflection methods in Android can facilitate developing applications, they will block control flow and data flow in static analysis, making its precision decreased. To solve this problem, we trigger applications to execute reflection methods and record its reflection targets at runtime. Reflection targets may be a method invocation, field setting or instantiating of some classes. Considering...
In recent years, smart phone becomes more and more popular. At the same time, the security threat of smart phone is growing. According to “Motive Security Labs Malware Report-H1 2015” [1] report, the number of Android malware is growing year by year. Many researchers focus on the security of Android applications based on permission. Felt et al. [2] designed the stowaway tool to detect the application's...
As cybercrimes and their data volumes proliferate, business professionals and public servants urgently need new knowledge and skills to address the growing threats. However, curricular materials, pedagogical research, and courses to address the data deluge in cybersecurity are not widely available. This research developed a contextual active learning approach to creating curricular modules for use...
Social media has become an important platform for people to express opinions, share information and communicate with others. Detecting and tracking topics from social media can help people grasp essential information and facilitate many security-related applications. As social media texts are usually short, traditional topic evolution models built based on LDA or HDP often suffer from the data sparsity...
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