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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation and Improvement of Generic-Emulating DPA Attacks
At CT-RSA 2014, Whitnall, Oswald and Standaert gave the impossibility result that no generic DPA strategies (i.e., without any a priori knowledge about the leakage characteristics) can recover secret information ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Transient-Steady Effect Attack on Block Ciphers
A new Transient-Steady Effect attack on block ciphers called TSE attack is presented in this paper. The concept of transient-steady effect denotes the phenomenon that the output of a combinational circuit keep...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Result Integrity Verification of Outsourced Frequent Itemset Mining
The data-mining-as-a-service (DMaS) paradigm enables the data owner (client) that lacks expertise or computational resources to outsource its mining tasks to a third-party service provider (server). Outsourcing, ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quantitative Security Risk Assessment of Android Permissions and Applications
The booming of the Android platform in recent years has attracted the attention of malware developers. However, the permissions-based model used in Android system to prevent the spread of malware, has shown to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
TerraCheck: Verification of Dedicated Cloud Storage
When hardware resources are shared between mutually distrustful tenants in the cloud, it may cause information leakage and bring difficulties to regulatory control. To address these concerns, cloud providers a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Traffic Locality in BitTorrent via Shared Trackers
The fast-growing traffic of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, most notably BitTorrent, is putting unprecedented pressure to Internet Service Providers (ISPs). P2P locality has therefore been widely suggested to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Password Protected Smart Card and Memory Stick Authentication against Off-Line Dictionary Attacks
We study the security requirements for remote authentication with password protected smart card. In recent years, several protocols for password-based authenticated key exchange have been proposed. These proto...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Degree and Principal Eigenvectors in Complex Networks
The largest eigenvalue λ 1 of the adjacency matrix powerfully characterizes dynamic processes on networks, such as virus spread and synchronization. The minimization of the spectral radius by remo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Secure Password-Based Remote User Authentication Scheme with Non-tamper Resistant Smart Cards
In DBSec’11, Li et al. showed that Kim and Chung’s password-based remote user authentication scheme is vulnerable to various attacks if the smart card is non-tamper resistant. Consequently, an improved version...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RandHyp: Preventing Attacks via Xen Hypercall Interface
Virtualization plays a key role in constructing cloud environments and providing services. Although the main jobs of the hypervisors are to guarantee proper isolation between domains and provide them services,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modeling Social Engineering Botnet Dynamics across Multiple Social Networks
In recent years, widely spreading botnets in social networks are becoming a major security threat to both social networking services and the privacy of their users. In order to have a better understanding of t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Sign What You Really Care about – Secure BGP AS Paths Efficiently
The inter-domain routing protocol, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), plays a critical role in the reliability of the Internet routing system, but forged routes generated by malicious attacks or mis-configurations...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Routing On Demand: Toward the Energy-Aware Traffic Engineering with OSPF
Energy consumption has already become a major challenge to the current Internet. Most researches aim at lowering energy consumption under certain fixed performance constraints. Since trade-offs exist between n...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Enhancing Peer-to-Peer Traffic Locality through Selective Tracker Blocking
Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, most notably BitTorrent (BT), are generating unprecedented traffic pressure to the Internet Service Providers (ISPs). To mitigate the costly inter-ISP traffic, P2P locality, wh...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BotTrack: Tracking Botnets Using NetFlow and PageRank
With large scale botnets emerging as one of the major current threats, the automatic detection of botnet traffic is of high importance for service providers and large campus network monitoring. Faced with high...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Clustering Recommenders in Collaborative Filtering Using Explicit Trust Information
In this work, we explore the benefits of combining clustering and social trust information for Recommender Systems. We demonstrate the performance advantages of traditional clustering algorithms like k-Means and ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
To Release or Not to Release: Evaluating Information Leaks in Aggregate Human-Genome Data
The rapid progress of human genome studies leads to a strong demand of aggregate human DNA data (e.g, allele frequencies, test statistics, etc.), whose public dissemination, however, has been impeded by privac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Linear Obfuscation to Combat Symbolic Execution
Trigger-based code (malicious in many cases, but not necessarily) only executes when specific inputs are received. Symbolic execution has been one of the most powerful techniques in discovering such malicious ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detecting Spam Bots in Online Social Networking Sites: A Machine Learning Approach
As online social networking sites become more and more popular, they have also attracted the attentions of the spammers. In this paper, Twitter, a popular micro-blogging service, is studied as an example of sp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
End-to-End Throughput with Cooperative Communication in Multi-channel Wireless Networks
Although cooperative communication has been proposed at the physical layer to address multi-path fading effects, how physical layer gains with cooperative communication can translate to tangible performance be...