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Generalized Discriminant Analysis Algorithm for Feature Reduction in Cyber Attack Detection System
Nov 2009
This Generalized Discriminant Analysis (GDA) has provided an extremely powerful approach to extracting non-linear features. The network traffic data provided for the design of intrusion detection...
Provided by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
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White Papers
Software Vulnerabilities, Banking Threats, Botnets and Malware Self-Protection Technologies
Jan 2011
Nowadays, there is a huge variety of cyber threats that can be quite dangerous not only for big companies but also for an ordinary user, who can be a potential victim for cybercriminals when using...
Provided by King Saud University
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Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems: Security, Timing Analysis and Soft Error Protection
Jan 2011
The power grid represents a distributed cyber-physical system that is essential to the every-day life. Larger-scale black-outs are known to have a severe economic and safety impact, as historical...
Provided by North Carolina State University
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White Papers
Time-Based Intrusion Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
May 2009
Embedded systems, particularly those with temporal constraints known as real-time systems, are increasingly deployed in every day life. Such systems that interact with the physical world are also...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
An Ensemble Approach for Feature Selection of Cyber Attack Dataset
Dec 2009
Feature selection is an indispensable pre-processing step when mining huge datasets that can significantly improve the overall system performance. Therefore in this paper the authors focus on a...
Provided by Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
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Genetic Algorithms, TABU Search and Simulated Annealing: A Comparison Between Three Approaches for the Cryptanalysis of Transposition Cipher
May 2009
Due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks, the demand for effective internet security is increasing. Cryptology is the science and study of systems for secret communication. It consists of two...
Provided by JATIT
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White Papers
ìSETL: A Set Based Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2011
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are poised to play a pivotal role in engineering new solutions to a variety of societal-scale problems, such as energy conservation, climate change, healthcare,...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Distributed Fault Detection for Interconnected Second-Order Systems With Applications to Power Networks
Dec 2010
Observers for distributed fault detection of interconnected second-order linear time invariant systems are studied. Particularly, networked systems under consensus protocols are considered and it...
Provided by Australian National University
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White Papers
Cyber Security Analysis of State Estimators in Electric Power Systems
Dec 2010
In this paper, the authors analyze the cyber security of state estimators in Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems operating in power grids. Safe and reliable operation of these...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Networked Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks With Applications to Power Networks
Jan 2010
Networked control systems under certain cyber attacks are analyzed. The communication network of these control systems make them vulnerable to attacks from malicious outsiders. The authors' paper...
Provided by Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
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White Papers
A Webomatrics Analysis Between Taiwan and China Academic Web by Sitation Analysis
May 2008
The cyberspace is an important part for their academic interflow. The paper is based on the situation analysis and proposes Web Impact Factor (WIF) as an indicator for web space analysis. The...
Provided by National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Modeling the Spread of Mobile Malware
May 2008
The popularity of mobile phones and the Internet makes it more enticing for hackers to write viruses and create malicious code. There are currently over 150 mobile viruses today. As a result, the...
Provided by Howard University
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White Papers
Cyber Security Governance
Sep 2010
Cyber Prep is a conceptual framework, together with a practical methodology, which an organization uses to define and implement its strategy for addressing adversarial threats related to its...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Building Secure, Resilient Architectures for Cyber Mission Assurance
Jan 2011
Today's Information Technology (IT) environments are increasingly subject to escalating cyber attacks. Cyber threats vary widely in sophistication, intent, and the consequences to the targeted...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
How Do You Assess Your Organization's Cyber Threat Level?
Sep 2010
In the Cyber Prep methodology, an organization determines its target level of preparedness against cyber threats, including the advanced persistent threat, based on its assessment of the level of...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Selected MITRE Cyber-Related Research and Initiatives
Apr 2010
Over the past few years, the Advanced Cyber Threat (ACT) has driven them to evolve the authors' perspective of cyber security and information assurance. Advanced cyber adversaries have growing...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration
Jun 2010
Researchers are pursuing methods of securing the cyber aspect of the U.S. power grid, one of the country's most critical infrastructures. An attacker who is able to infiltrate an Energy Management...
Provided by Dartmouth College
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White Papers
Internet Management and Internet Security Software
Jan 2011
Internet access is an undisputed business necessity these days. Managing that access is essential for all businesses - especially with today's increasing regulatory and security requirements. Left...
Provided by AJE Consulting
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White Papers
Lexical Feature Based Phishing URL Detection Using Online Learning
Oct 2010
Phishing is a form of cybercrime where spammed emails and fraudulent websites entice victims to provide sensitive information to the phishes. The acquired sensitive information is subsequently...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Using a Cognitive Architecture to Automate Cyberdefense Reasoning
Apr 2008
The CSISM project is designing and implementing an automated cyberdefense decision-making mechanism with expert-level ability. CSISM interprets alerts and observations and takes defensive actions...
Provided by Pace University
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White Papers
An Abstract Interface for Cyber-Defense Mechanisms
May 2008
Defending a computer system against malicious attack depends on making many different defense mechanisms work together. In addition to protecting against intrusions, these mechanisms should...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Programming Support for Distributed Optimization and Control in Cyber-Physical Systems
Apr 2011
Large-scale actuator control problems in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often expressed within the networked optimization model. While significant advances have taken place in optimization...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: Focus on Smart Buildings
Jun 2010
Operating at the intersection of multiple sensing and control systems designed for occupant comfort, performability and operational efficiency, modern buildings represent a prototypical...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
No Plan Survives Contact: Experience With Cybercrime Measurement
Jul 2011
An important mode of empirical security research involves analyzing the behavior, capabilities, and motives of adversaries. By definition, such measurements cannot be conducted in controlled...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Analyzing the Behavior of Network Attacks at a High Level Using Case-Based Reasoning
Jun 2007
This paper describes an approach, which focuses on the behavior of communication network attacks and the strategies of the entire attacking scenarios. It attempts to analyze cyber-attacks with the...
Provided by Loughborough University
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White Papers
Designing Modular and Redundant Cyber Architectures for Process Control: Lessons Learned
Sep 2008
An architecture was recently proposed to protect the power grid, in the context of an European project. The design of the architecture, guided by an analysis of the evolution of critical...
Provided by FCUL
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White Papers
Monitoring User-Level Functionality and Performance Using Inca
Oct 2010
Inca is a user-level monitoring tool that has been used successfully in cyberinfrastructure projects such as the TeraGrid and other similar projects. Its flexible architecture enables multiple...
Provided by UC Regents
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White Papers
Group-Centric Models for Secure and Agile Information Sharing
Jun 2010
To share information and retain control (share-but-protect) is a classic cyber security problem for which effective solutions continue to be elusive. Where the patterns of sharing are well defined...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Advanced persistent threats: From fear to facts
Aug 2011
Advanced persistent threats (APT) aren't just for huge companies that are attacked and hacked - they affect all organisations. Too much marketing hype and fear, uncertainty and doubt have clouded...
Provided by Websense
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Whitepapers
Secure your website to protect customers and reputation
Aug 2011
The list of online security woes -- online fraud and identity theft worry your customers while intrusion, spoofing, denial of service (DoS), spyware and data theft are concerns for businesses -...
Provided by VeriSign
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Whitepapers
Aanval for Government and Military Agencies: Secure Public Sector Networks, Critical Infrastructures, and Classified Government Records With Continuous Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber security is now at the forefront of national security concerns as cyber criminal organizations and spies are intensifying attacks on government agencies in order to disrupt the country's...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Aanval for Financial Services: Protecting and Defending Financial Institutions From Global Cyber Threats With Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
The financial services industry today is in a difficult position faced with many business and security challenges as more transactions occur via online channels in the global market. The financial...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Protecting the Legal Industry From High-Risk Security Threats With Real-Time Continuous Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber-espionage attacks orchestrated by foreign intelligence services or between competing companies has become a growing and persistent threat to the economic security of many countries and is no...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Improving Network Security to Secure Critical Infrastructures and Reduce Malware Exploits With Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
The world's critical infrastructures are becoming more susceptible to cyber attacks as utility and nuclear power companies increasingly wire their control system and industrial machinery to the...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Protecting and Defending SMBs From High-Risk Cyber Attacks and Malware With Real-Time Continuous Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber attacks are making headlines every day and have evolved into a frequent and costly incident with a significant number of businesses becoming a victim of at least one data breach in the past...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Organizing Software Project Control Practices
Sep 2011
The major challenge for software project control is to adapt to the associated control practices in order to achieve sustainability for the software project. This paper reviews software project...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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Whitepapers
Cyber Terrorism: Issues in Its Interpretation and Enforcement
May 2012
Cyber terrorism is a term which represents an act of terrorising using cyberspace as a medium. This phrase is controversial as there is no exact meaning of it. Generally, it is known as "The...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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Whitepapers
Applying Data Analytics to Development of the Web- Based Information Security Career Systems
Sep 2012
This paper proposes a case to build a Web-based Information/Cyber Security (ICS) career system for smart education using Web data analytical technology. The proposed system will automatically...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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Whitepapers
Embedded Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Smart Meters
Aug 2012
Smart grid security has many facets, ranging over a spectrum from resisting attacks aimed at supervisory and control systems, to end user privacy concerns while monitored by the utility...
Provided by Linköping University
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White Papers
Cyber Social-Networks and Social Movements Case Study: Tehran (2009-10)
Jan 2011
While communication scholars suggest that cyber social networks can serve as an important resource for social movement communication, few studies examine which and how special features of these...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
Botnet Detection Architecture Based on Heterogeneous Multi-sensor Information Fusion
Dec 2011
As technology has been developed rapidly, botnet threats to the global cyber community are also increasing. And the botnet detection has recently become a major research topic in the field of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Data Mining for Security and Crime Detection
Jun 2008
As the internet becomes more pervasive in all areas of human activity, attackers can use the anonymity of the cyberspace to commit crimes and compromise the IT infrastructure. As currently there...
Provided by Fraunhofer IAIS
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White Papers
Defining your data demands in simple steps
Feb 2012
Businesses have seen a deluge of data, with more devices, more platforms and more access -- and, of course, more ways to lose and leak information. By 2020, it's estimated that the world will...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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White Papers
2012 Olympics: Is your business prepared?
Feb 2012
Athletes prepare for all kinds of conditions and problems in competition. With the London-hosted Olympics fast approaching, businesses should be prepared with policies to keep performance high...
Provided by Symantec.cloud
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White Papers
Synthesizing Switching Logic for Safety and Dwell-Time Requirements
Apr 2010
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) can be usefully modeled as hybrid automata combining the physical dynamics within modes with discrete switching behavior between modes. CPS designs must satisfy safety...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Three tips for better remote working
Feb 2012
Remote work is becoming increasingly important for organisations that are attempting to drive down their costs and to become more agile by enabling employees to work from any location - at home,...
Provided by Imation
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White Papers
Data Mining for Security Applications
May 2010
In this paper, the authors discuss various data mining techniques that they have successfully applied for cyber-security. These applications include but are not limited to malicious code detection...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Adapting the Pretty Good Privacy Security Style to Power System Distributed Network Protocol
Sep 2011
Power system modernization with increasing operation automation and integration results in growing computer network access. This facilitates cyber-attackers' capabilities to assume control over...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Mining Writeprints From Anonymous E-mails for Forensic Investigation
Mar 2010
Many criminals exploit the convenience of anonymity in the cyber world to conduct illegal activities. E-mail is the most commonly used medium for such activities. Extracting knowledge and...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
A Novel Approach of Mining Write-Prints for Authorship Attribution in E-mail Forensics
Mar 2011
There is an alarming increase in the number of cybercrime incidents through anonymous e-mails. The problem of e-mail authorship attribution is to identify the most plausible author of an anonymous...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
A Unified Data Mining Solution for Authorship Analysis in Anonymous Textual Communications
Apr 2011
The cyber world provides an anonymous environment for criminals to conduct malicious activities such as spamming, sending ransom e-mails, and spreading botnet malware. Often, these activities...
Provided by Concordia University
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White Papers
A Meta-learning-based Approach for Detecting Profile Injection Attacks in Collaborative Recommender Systems
Jan 2012
Recent research has shown the significant vulnerabilities of collaborative recommender systems in the face of profile injection attacks, in which malicious users insert fake profiles into the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Protecting Data From the Cyber Theft - A Virulent Disease
May 2010
Network security policies are essential elements in Internet security. Network security perimeter devices such as firewalls, IPSec, and IDS/IPS devices operate based on locally configured...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
Politically Motivated Denial of Service Attacks
Jul 2009
Cyberwarfare has been waged for well over a decade, utilizing methods such as website defacement, data leakage, and Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS). This paper focuses on the latter,...
Provided by Arbor Networks
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White Papers
ATM Cyber Threats Come to the Fore
May 2011
Traditional skimming still tops the list and second comes illegal break-ins to bank premises where ATM's are installed and physical removal of the machines. However, cyber attacks are rising while...
Provided by StarForce Technologies
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Podcasts
Interview With Joseph Weiss, Industry Expert on Control Systems and Electronic Security
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker discusses about cyber security within industrial control system environments, SCADA, and NERC. The speaker shares a number of perspectives based upon his decades of...
Provided by Imperva
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Podcasts
Host of the Network Security Blog and Podcast Series, and QSA
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker talks about the recent webcast from Homeland Security titled "Do the Payment card Industry Data Standards Reduce Cyber Crime." The speaker also shares with one of his...
Provided by Imperva
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Podcasts
Insider Threats
Jan 2012
In this podcast, the speaker discusses extensively about insider threats, shares some stories from the trenches, and discusses the nature of cybercrime. The speaker also covers the importance of...
Provided by Imperva
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White Papers
Continuous Multi-Dimensional Top-K Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Mar 2011
Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the new frontier such as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Experimental Challenges in Cyber Security: A Story of Provenance and Lineage for Malware
Aug 2011
Rigorous experiments and empirical studies hold the promise of empowering researchers and practitioners to develop better approaches for cyber security. For example, understanding the provenance...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Human Factors-Aware Service Scheduling in Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems
Mar 2011
It is essential to consider drivers' perceptions and reactions when building Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems (VCPS) since the effectiveness and efficiency of VCPS will largely depend on how...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Long PN Code Based DSSS Watermarking
Mar 2011
Cyber crimes often involve complicated scenes. In this paper, the authors investigate unidentified crimes committed through anonymous communication networks. They developed a long Pseudo-Noise...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Trustworthy and Effective Communication of Cybersecurity Risks: A Review
Jul 2011
Slowly but surely, academia and industry are fully accepting the importance of the human element as it pertains to achieving security and trust. Undoubtedly, one of the main motivations for this...
Provided by University of Warwick
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White Papers
Cyber Security for Smart Grid
Jul 2011
The invention of "Smart grid" promises to improve the efficiency and reliability of the power system. As smart grid is turning out to be one of the most promising technologies, its security...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Experiences In Cyber Security Education: The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Capture-the-Flag Exercise
Jun 2011
Many popular and well-established cyber security Capture The Flag (CTF) exercises are held each year in a variety of settings, including universities and semi-professional security conferences....
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
The Underground Economy of Fake Antivirus Software
May 2011
Fake Anti-Virus (AV) programs have been utilized to defraud millions of computer users into paying as much as one hundred dollars for a phony software license. As a result, fake AV software has...
Provided by University of California
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Webcasts
Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How Cyberattacks Threaten Real-World Peace
Oct 2011
More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons - silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. In this Webcast, the presenter shows how...
Provided by TED Conferences
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Webcasts
Monitoring and Securing SCADA Networks
Oct 2011
SCADA networks are just different. Compared to enterprise IT networks, they have different security objectives, most of the endpoint actors are machines rather than people, their incidents can...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Webcasts
Critical Control System Vulnerabilities Demonstrated - And What to Do About Them
Nov 2011
Control systems are embedded in most industries to automate the production, delivery and safe storage of the food and drinks the people consume, the transportation people take, the chemicals...
Provided by NitroSecurity
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Whitepapers
Protecting the Electric Grid in the Dangerous World
Dec 2011
Today, the widespread use of standard computing platforms and systems linked to the Internet exposes the electric grid to new risks of internal and external compromise and potential disruption. To...
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Cybercriminals Using Marketing-Like Approaches to Target Consumers
Jun 2011
In this podcast, the speakers explain about the latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR v10) which was released by Microsoft. Volume 10 uncovers evolving threat landscape trend information from...
Provided by Microsoft
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Podcasts
Consumerization of IT and Sophistication of Attacks
Jun 2011
In this podcast, the speaker explains how cybercriminals use marketing-like tactics to target consumers, how that can impact an organization, and how one can stay protected.
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
SMB Data Breach White Paper - How to Protect Your Businesses Data From Cyber Criminals
Oct 2011
Data breach is a multifaceted issue that involves many pieces of a business's operations, customer service and data/information security. In a world where data breach attacks against SMB's is on...
Provided by Identity Fraud
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White Papers
A Game Theoretic Approach for Interuser Interference Reduction in Body Sensor Networks
Jun 2011
As a kind of small-scale Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) can provide the pervasive, long-term, and real-time health monitoring. A high degree of Quality-of-Service (QoS)...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Total Least Squares Method for Robust Source Localization in Sensor Networks Using TDOA Measurements
Jun 2011
The TDOA-based source localization problem in sensor networks is considered with sensor node location uncertainty. A Total Least Squares (TLSs) algorithm is developed by a linear closed-form...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Advanced Persistent Threats: A Decade in Review
Jun 2011
This paper defines the term Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) in the context of cyber threats and cyber attack. It presents a timeline and summary of prominent cyber attacks likely attributable to...
Provided by Command Five Pty
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White Papers
Toward Ubiquitous Video-Based Cyber-Physical Systems
Apr 2009
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a new generation of engineered systems that integrate physical systems with the capability of networked computing and control. Real-time video capture and...
Provided by City University
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White Papers
Understanding and Mitigating the Impact of Interference on Wireless Sensor Networks for Cyber-Physical Systems
Nov 2009
Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology suitable for Cyber-Physical Systems. However, the wireless links are vulnerable to other interference from various sources. In this paper, the...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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Whitepapers
Cybercrime risk management helps protect the enterprise
Sep 2011
Organisations need solutions to help protect key business information, whether it's a USB drive full of company information or just being cautious. Today's enterprise needs tools to avoid...
Provided by HP
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White Papers
Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Selected MITRE Cyber-Related Research and Initiatives
Apr 2010
Over the past few years, the Advanced Cyber Threat (ACT) has driven them to evolve the authors' perspective of cyber security and information assurance. Advanced cyber adversaries have growing...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Creating Large Disturbances in the Power Grid: Methods of Attack After Cyber Infiltration
Jun 2010
Researchers are pursuing methods of securing the cyber aspect of the U.S. power grid, one of the country's most critical infrastructures. An attacker who is able to infiltrate an Energy Management...
Provided by Dartmouth College
-
White Papers
Internet Management and Internet Security Software
Jan 2011
Internet access is an undisputed business necessity these days. Managing that access is essential for all businesses - especially with today's increasing regulatory and security requirements. Left...
Provided by AJE Consulting
-
White Papers
Lexical Feature Based Phishing URL Detection Using Online Learning
Oct 2010
Phishing is a form of cybercrime where spammed emails and fraudulent websites entice victims to provide sensitive information to the phishes. The acquired sensitive information is subsequently...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Using a Cognitive Architecture to Automate Cyberdefense Reasoning
Apr 2008
The CSISM project is designing and implementing an automated cyberdefense decision-making mechanism with expert-level ability. CSISM interprets alerts and observations and takes defensive actions...
Provided by Pace University
-
White Papers
An Abstract Interface for Cyber-Defense Mechanisms
May 2008
Defending a computer system against malicious attack depends on making many different defense mechanisms work together. In addition to protecting against intrusions, these mechanisms should...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Programming Support for Distributed Optimization and Control in Cyber-Physical Systems
Apr 2011
Large-scale actuator control problems in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often expressed within the networked optimization model. While significant advances have taken place in optimization...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems: Focus on Smart Buildings
Jun 2010
Operating at the intersection of multiple sensing and control systems designed for occupant comfort, performability and operational efficiency, modern buildings represent a prototypical...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
No Plan Survives Contact: Experience With Cybercrime Measurement
Jul 2011
An important mode of empirical security research involves analyzing the behavior, capabilities, and motives of adversaries. By definition, such measurements cannot be conducted in controlled...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Analyzing the Behavior of Network Attacks at a High Level Using Case-Based Reasoning
Jun 2007
This paper describes an approach, which focuses on the behavior of communication network attacks and the strategies of the entire attacking scenarios. It attempts to analyze cyber-attacks with the...
Provided by Loughborough University
-
White Papers
Designing Modular and Redundant Cyber Architectures for Process Control: Lessons Learned
Sep 2008
An architecture was recently proposed to protect the power grid, in the context of an European project. The design of the architecture, guided by an analysis of the evolution of critical...
Provided by FCUL
-
White Papers
Monitoring User-Level Functionality and Performance Using Inca
Oct 2010
Inca is a user-level monitoring tool that has been used successfully in cyberinfrastructure projects such as the TeraGrid and other similar projects. Its flexible architecture enables multiple...
Provided by UC Regents
-
White Papers
Group-Centric Models for Secure and Agile Information Sharing
Jun 2010
To share information and retain control (share-but-protect) is a classic cyber security problem for which effective solutions continue to be elusive. Where the patterns of sharing are well defined...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
White Papers
Advanced persistent threats: From fear to facts
Aug 2011
Advanced persistent threats (APT) aren't just for huge companies that are attacked and hacked - they affect all organisations. Too much marketing hype and fear, uncertainty and doubt have clouded...
Provided by Websense
-
Whitepapers
Secure your website to protect customers and reputation
Aug 2011
The list of online security woes -- online fraud and identity theft worry your customers while intrusion, spoofing, denial of service (DoS), spyware and data theft are concerns for businesses -...
Provided by VeriSign
-
Whitepapers
Aanval for Government and Military Agencies: Secure Public Sector Networks, Critical Infrastructures, and Classified Government Records With Continuous Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber security is now at the forefront of national security concerns as cyber criminal organizations and spies are intensifying attacks on government agencies in order to disrupt the country's...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
-
Whitepapers
Aanval for Financial Services: Protecting and Defending Financial Institutions From Global Cyber Threats With Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
The financial services industry today is in a difficult position faced with many business and security challenges as more transactions occur via online channels in the global market. The financial...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
-
Whitepapers
Protecting the Legal Industry From High-Risk Security Threats With Real-Time Continuous Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber-espionage attacks orchestrated by foreign intelligence services or between competing companies has become a growing and persistent threat to the economic security of many countries and is no...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
-
Whitepapers
Improving Network Security to Secure Critical Infrastructures and Reduce Malware Exploits With Real-Time Threat Management
Sep 2012
The world's critical infrastructures are becoming more susceptible to cyber attacks as utility and nuclear power companies increasingly wire their control system and industrial machinery to the...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
-
Whitepapers
Protecting and Defending SMBs From High-Risk Cyber Attacks and Malware With Real-Time Continuous Threat Management
Sep 2012
Cyber attacks are making headlines every day and have evolved into a frequent and costly incident with a significant number of businesses becoming a victim of at least one data breach in the past...
Provided by Tactical FLEX, Inc.
-
Whitepapers
Organizing Software Project Control Practices
Sep 2011
The major challenge for software project control is to adapt to the associated control practices in order to achieve sustainability for the software project. This paper reviews software project...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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Whitepapers
Cyber Terrorism: Issues in Its Interpretation and Enforcement
May 2012
Cyber terrorism is a term which represents an act of terrorising using cyberspace as a medium. This phrase is controversial as there is no exact meaning of it. Generally, it is known as "The...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
-
Whitepapers
Applying Data Analytics to Development of the Web- Based Information Security Career Systems
Sep 2012
This paper proposes a case to build a Web-based Information/Cyber Security (ICS) career system for smart education using Web data analytical technology. The proposed system will automatically...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
-
Whitepapers
Embedded Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Smart Meters
Aug 2012
Smart grid security has many facets, ranging over a spectrum from resisting attacks aimed at supervisory and control systems, to end user privacy concerns while monitored by the utility...
Provided by Linköping University
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Whitepapers
Protocol for Mitigating the Risk of Hijacking Social Networking Sites
Oct 2011
The proliferation of social and collaborative media has been accompanied by an increased level of cyber attacks on social networking and collaboration sites. One serious type of attack is session...
Provided by ICST
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Whitepapers
HTTP Botnet Detection Using Frequent Patternset Mining
Jun 2012
Among the diverse forms of malware, Botnet is the most widespread and serious threat which occurs commonly in today's cyber-attacks. A botnet is a group of compromised computers which are remotely...
Provided by INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE & ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
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Whitepapers
Enhanced Resilience Approach on the Security Flimsiness of Critical Infrastructure
Jun 2008
Systems and assets whether physical or virtual are so vital to a nation that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have enormous impact on the nation's security, national...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Bad Data Injection Attack and Defense in Electricity Market Using Game Theory Study
Oct 2012
Applications of cyber technologies improve the quality of monitoring and decision making in smart grid. These cyber technologies are vulnerable to malicious attacks, and compromising them can have...
Provided by University of Hong Kong
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Whitepapers
Grid Computing: The Next Decade
Oct 2012
The evolution of the global scientific Cyber Infrastructure (CI) has, over the last 10+ years, led to a large diversity of CI instances. While specialized, competing and alternative CI building...
Provided by University of Northern Iowa
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Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Personalized Production
Jun 2012
The Internet has facilitated the development of e-businesses using web-based services leveraging back-end database systems, inventory systems and payment processing systems. Online retail...
Provided by University of Miami School of Business Administration
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Automated Sensor Verification Using Outlier Detection in the Internet of Things
Apr 2012
Cyber-physical systems uses sensors, actuators, and computation to solve problems that cross the physical world and computational world. Traditionally, the systems have been designed to be...
Provided by University of Maryland University College
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Scalable Knock Authentication Mechanism (SKAM) for Addressing TCP Vulnerabilities
Jun 2011
Scanning TCP and UDP connections for finding susceptible hosts is one of the most popular techniques used by malicious cyber criminals and hackers to discover and map services that are listening...
Provided by ICT
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Detection, Correlation, and Visualization of Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure Systems
Jun 2010
Digital control systems are essential to the safe and efficient operation of a variety of industrial processes in sectors such as electric power, oil and gas, water treatment, and manufacturing....
Provided by Sri Durga Group
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Handling End User Through Markov Model
Jun 2012
In the cyber crime investigation, log files are an important source of evidence. The importance of event logs, as a source of information in systems and network management cannot be over...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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An Exact Solution to the Power Networks Security Index Problem and Its Generalized Min Cut Formulation
Apr 2012
The resilience of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for electric power networks for certain cyber-attacks is considered. In particular, the authors study the robustness of...
Provided by Cornell University
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How Hard Can It Be to Measure Phishing?
Feb 2010
Measuring cybercrime might be thought to be easy; if only the criminals and victims would cooperate and provide the data. This short paper explains, by reference to 'phishing' criminality, how...
Provided by Harvard University
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Adaptive Energy Forecasting and Information Diffusion for Smart Power Grids
May 2012
Smart Power Grids exemplify an emerging class of Cyber Physical Applications that exhibit Dynamic, Distributed and Data intensive (D3) characteristics along with an always-on paradigm to support...
Provided by University of Southampton
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Improving Safety for Driverless City Vehicles: Real-Time Communication and Decision Making
Mar 2010
This paper elaborates on the Cybercars-2 Wireless Communication Framework for driverless city vehicles, which is used for Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure communication. The...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Novel Architecture Against False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grid
May 2012
Smart Grid is a new type of power grid that will provide reliable, secure, and efficient energy transmission and distribution. Cyber attacks against data readmission system threaten the security...
Provided by Towse Publishing Company
