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Mobile Device Vulnerabilities & Securities, Luke Rondeau
Mobile Device Vulnerabilities & Securities, Luke Rondeau
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
An investigation on current mobile vulnerabilities and research into security. Also, a proof of concept to show the ease of injecting an Android phone with a virus.
A Novel Defense Mechanism Against Web Crawler Intrusion, Alireza Aghamohammadi
A Novel Defense Mechanism Against Web Crawler Intrusion, Alireza Aghamohammadi
Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Web robots also known as crawlers or spiders are used by search engines, hackers and spammers to gather information about web pages. Timely detection and prevention of unwanted crawlers increases privacy and security of websites. In this research, a novel method to identify web crawlers is proposed to prevent unwanted crawler to access websites. The proposed method suggests a five-factor identification process to detect unwanted crawlers. This study provides the pretest and posttest results along with a systematic evaluation of web pages with the proposed identification technique versus web pages without the proposed identification process. An experiment was performed with …