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The Malware Analysis Body of Knowledge (MABOK)
The ability to forensically analyze malicious software (malware) is becoming an increasingly important discipline in the field of Digital Forensics. This is because malware is becoming stealthier, targeted, profit driven, managed by criminal organizations, harder to detect and much harder to analyze. Malware analysis requires a considerable skill set to ...
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Malware Forensics: Discovery of the Intent of Deception
Malicious software (malware) has a wide variety of analysis avoidance techniques that it can employ to hinder forensic analysis. Although legitimate software can incorporate the same analysis avoidance techniques to provide a measure of protection against reverse engineering and to protect intellectual property, malware invariably makes much greater use of ...
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A Preliminary Investigation of Distributed and Cooperative User Authentication
Smartphones and other highly mobile yet sophisticated technologies are rapidly spreading through society and increasingly finding their way into pockets and handbags. As reliance upon these intensifies and familiarity grows, human nature dictates that more and more personal details and information is now to be found upon such devices. The ...
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A Longitudinal Study of Wi-Fi Access Point Security in the Perth Central Business District
This paper collected data in 2008 and 2011 in relation to the level of apparent security of wireless network access points in the Perth CBD. It also compared this data to a comparable study conducted in 2004. The aim was to determine whether businesses were using an appropriate level of ...
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Are Existing Security Models Suitable for Teleworking?
The availability of high performance broadband services from the home will allow a growing number of organisations to offer teleworking as an employee work practice. Teleworking delivers cost savings, improved productivity and provides a recruitment policy to attract and retain personnel. Information security is one of the management considerations necessary ...
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Modelling Misuse Cases as a Means of Capturing Security Requirements
Use cases as part of requirements engineering are often seen as an essential part of systems development in many methodologies. Given that modern, security-oriented software development methods such as SDL, SQUARE and CLASP place security at the forefront of product initiation, design and implementation, the focus of requirements elicitation must ...
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Security Aspects of Sensor-Based Defence Systems
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has IMAP and JMAP to perform planning prior to the deployment of forces, but there is a knowledge gap for on-ground forces during the execution of an operation. Multi-agent based sensor systems can provide on-ground forces with a significant amount of real-time information that can ...
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Penetration of Zigbee-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks are becoming popular as a simple means of collecting data by public utilities, motor vehicle manufacturers and other organisations. Unfortunately the devices on such networks are often insecure by default, which presents problems in terms of the integrity of the data provided across those networks. This paper ...
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A Proposal for Utilising Active Jamming for the Defence of RFID Systems Against Attack
With a range of documented attacks against RFID systems a majority of the current literature is focused on the encryption of the communication. This paper addresses such attacks by proposing alternative means of protection through utilising some of the same methods that may be used to attack these systems. The ...
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An Investigation Into Darknets and the Content Available Via Anonymous Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Media sites, both technical and non-technical, make references to Darknets as havens for clandestine file sharing. They are often given an aura of mystique; where content of any type is just a mouse click away. However, can Darknets really be easily accessed, and do they provide access to material that ...
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