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2016

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A Survey On Future Internet Security Architectures, Wenxiu Ding, Zheng Yan, Robert H. Deng Jul 2016

A Survey On Future Internet Security Architectures, Wenxiu Ding, Zheng Yan, Robert H. Deng

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Current host-centric Internet Protocol (IP) networks are facing unprecedented challenges, such as network attacks and the exhaustion of IP addresses. Motivated by emerging demands for security, mobility, and distributed networking, many research projects have been initiated to design the future Internet from a clean slate. In order to obtain a thorough knowledge of security in future Internet architecture, we review a number of well-known projects, including named data networking, Content Aware Searching Retrieval and sTreaming, MobilityFirst Future Internet Architecture Project (MobilityFirst), eXpressive Internet Architecture, and scalability, control, and isolation on next-generation network. These projects aim to move away from the …


Mobipot: Understanding Mobile Telephony Threats With Honeycards, Marco Balduzzi, Payas Gupta, Lion Gu, Debin Gao, Mustaque Ahamad Jun 2016

Mobipot: Understanding Mobile Telephony Threats With Honeycards, Marco Balduzzi, Payas Gupta, Lion Gu, Debin Gao, Mustaque Ahamad

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Over the past decade, the number of mobile phones has increased dramatically, overtaking the world population in October 2014. In developing countries like India and China, mobile subscribers outnumber traditional landline users and account for over 90% of the active population. At the same time, convergence of telephony with the Internet with technologies like VoIP makes it possible to reach a large number of telephone users at a low or no cost via voice calls or SMS (short message service) messages. As a consequence, cybercriminals are abusing the telephony channel to launch attacks, e.g., scams that offer fraudulent services and …