Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Engineering (80)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (75)
- Law (71)
- Computer Law (67)
- Forensic Science and Technology (64)
-
- Legal Studies (64)
- Computer Engineering (60)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (47)
- Sociology (23)
- OS and Networks (21)
- Other Computer Sciences (20)
- Aviation (18)
- Defense and Security Studies (18)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (18)
- Aviation Safety and Security (17)
- National Security Law (17)
- Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance (17)
- Databases and Information Systems (15)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (11)
- Health Information Technology (8)
- Software Engineering (7)
- Systems Architecture (7)
- Communication (5)
- Theory and Algorithms (5)
- Business (4)
- Programming Languages and Compilers (4)
- Criminology (3)
- Institution
-
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (70)
- Edith Cowan University (44)
- Singapore Management University (37)
- University of New Haven (8)
- Nova Southeastern University (7)
-
- The University of San Francisco (6)
- Maurer School of Law: Indiana University (3)
- San Jose State University (3)
- DePauw University (2)
- Franklin University (2)
- Kennesaw State University (2)
- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2)
- University of Dayton (2)
- Air Force Institute of Technology (1)
- Boise State University (1)
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (1)
- East Tennessee State University (1)
- Eastern Michigan University (1)
- Governors State University (1)
- LSU New Orleans (1)
- Marquette University (1)
- Northern Michigan University (1)
- Parkland College (1)
- Portland State University (1)
- Sacred Heart University (1)
- Syracuse University (1)
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1)
- University of Central Florida (1)
- University of Richmond (1)
- Western University (1)
- Keyword
-
- Digital forensics (18)
- Security (15)
- Big data (8)
- Privacy (7)
- Approximate matching (6)
-
- Mrsh-v2 (6)
- Android (5)
- Authentication (5)
- Computer security (5)
- Cyber security (5)
- Digital evidence (5)
- Forensics (5)
- Bloom filter (4)
- Data privacy (4)
- Encryption (4)
- Information security (4)
- Mobile device forensics (4)
- Network forensics (4)
- Sdhash (4)
- Smartphone (4)
- Social media (4)
- [RSTDPub] (4)
- Analytics (3)
- Cloud forensics (3)
- Communications (3)
- Cybersecurity (3)
- Data protection (3)
- Discrete logarithm (3)
- Hashing (3)
- Healthcare (3)
- Publication
-
- Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (50)
- Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems (36)
- Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law (17)
- Australian Information Security Management Conference (13)
- Australian Digital Forensics Conference (12)
-
- Australian eHealth Informatics and Security Conference (8)
- Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications (8)
- CCAC Theses and Dissertations (7)
- Media Studies (6)
- Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference (4)
- Research outputs 2014 to 2021 (4)
- Articles by Maurer Faculty (3)
- Australian Security and Intelligence Conference (3)
- Master's Projects (3)
- All Faculty and Staff Scholarship (2)
- Computer Science Faculty Publications (2)
- Publications (2)
- A with Honors Projects (1)
- All Capstone Projects (1)
- Annual Student Research Poster Session (1)
- Bookshelf (1)
- College of Arts and Sciences Presentations (1)
- Conference Papers in Published Proceedings (1)
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Daytona Beach (1)
- Dissertations (1934 -) (1)
- Dissertations and Theses (1)
- Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access) (1)
- Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (1)
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship (1)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications (1)
- Publication Type
Articles 121 - 150 of 205
Full-Text Articles in Information Security
The Zombies Strike Back: Towards Client-Side Beef Detection, Maxim Chernyshev, Peter Hannay
The Zombies Strike Back: Towards Client-Side Beef Detection, Maxim Chernyshev, Peter Hannay
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
A web browser is an application that comes bundled with every consumer operating system, including both desktop and mobile platforms. A modern web browser is complex software that has access to system-level features, includes various plugins and requires the availability of an Internet connection. Like any multifaceted software products, web browsers are prone to numerous vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities can result in destructive consequences ranging from identity theft to network infrastructure damage. BeEF, the Browser Exploitation Framework, allows taking advantage of these vulnerabilities to launch a diverse range of readily available attacks from within the browser context. Existing defensive …
A Forensically-Enabled Iaas Cloud Computing Architecture, Saad Alqahtany, Nathan Clarke, Steven Furnell, Christoph Reich
A Forensically-Enabled Iaas Cloud Computing Architecture, Saad Alqahtany, Nathan Clarke, Steven Furnell, Christoph Reich
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
Current cloud architectures do not support digital forensic investigators, nor comply with today’s digital forensics procedures largely due to the dynamic nature of the cloud. Whilst much research has focused upon identifying the problems that are introduced with a cloud-based system, to date there is a significant lack of research on adapting current digital forensic tools and techniques to a cloud environment. Data acquisition is the first and most important process within digital forensics – to ensure data integrity and admissibility. However, access to data and the control of resources in the cloud is still very much provider-dependent and complicated …
Up-Dating Investigation Models For Smart Phone Procedures, Brian Cusack, Raymond Lutui
Up-Dating Investigation Models For Smart Phone Procedures, Brian Cusack, Raymond Lutui
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
The convergence of services in Smart Technologies such as iPhones, Androids and multiple tablet work surfaces challenges the scope of any forensic investigation to include cloud environments, devices and service media. The analysis of current investigation guidelines suggests that each element in an investigation requires an independent procedure to assure the preservation of evidence. However we dispute this view and review the possibility of consolidating current investigation guidelines into a unified best practice guideline. This exploratory research proposes to fill a gap in digital forensic investigation knowledge for smart technologies used in business environments and to propose a better way …
The Impact Of Custom Rom Backups On Android External Storage Erasure, Haydon Hope, Peter Hannay
The Impact Of Custom Rom Backups On Android External Storage Erasure, Haydon Hope, Peter Hannay
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
The Android operating system is the current market leader on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. The core operating system is open source and has a number of developers creating variants of this operating system. These variants, often referred to as custom ROMs are available for a wide number of mobile devices. Custom ROMs provide a number of features, such as enhanced control over the operating system, variation in user interfaces and so on. The process of installing custom ROMs is often accomplished through the use of a ROM manager application. Such applications often provide mechanisms to back …
Rapid Forensic Crime Scene Analysis Using Inexpensive Sensors, Dan Blackman
Rapid Forensic Crime Scene Analysis Using Inexpensive Sensors, Dan Blackman
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
Network forensics and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) have ultimately become so important to corporations that in many cases they have been relied upon to identify the actions of offenders and to provide sufficient details to prosecute them. Unfortunately, as data links on corporate networks have increased to saturation, more information is being missed and even though corporations have spent heavily acquiring loud, power hungry devices to monitor their networks. A more power efficient solution, which consumes less electricity, yet provides the same or better packet inspection is an obvious solution.. This paper discusses a possible solution using a cluster …
I Remember Richelieu: Is Anything Secure Anymore?, Michael G. Crowley, Michael N. Johnstone
I Remember Richelieu: Is Anything Secure Anymore?, Michael G. Crowley, Michael N. Johnstone
Australian Security and Intelligence Conference
Petraeus-gate, hacked nude celebrity photos in the cloud and the recent use of a search and seizure warrant in the United States of America to seek production of customer email contents on an extraterritorial server raises important issues for the supposably safe storage of data on the World Wide Web. Not only may there be nowhere to hide in cyberspace but nothing in cyberspace may be private. This paper explores the legal and technical issues raised by the these matters with emphasis on the courts decision “In the Matter of a Warrant to Search a Certain E-Mail Account Controlled and …
7th Australian Security And Intelligence Conference, 2014, Edith Cowan University: Conference Details, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University
7th Australian Security And Intelligence Conference, 2014, Edith Cowan University: Conference Details, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University
Australian Security and Intelligence Conference
No abstract provided.
On The Security Of Auditing Mechanisms For Secure Cloud Storage, Yong Yu, Lei Niu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo
On The Security Of Auditing Mechanisms For Secure Cloud Storage, Yong Yu, Lei Niu, Guomin Yang, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Cloud computing is a novel computing model that enables convenient and on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. Auditing services are highly essential to make sure that the data is correctly hosted in the cloud. In this paper, we investigate the active adversary attacks in three auditing mechanisms for shared data in the cloud, including two identity privacy-preserving auditing mechanisms called Oruta and Knox, and a distributed storage integrity auditing mechanism.We show that these schemes become insecure when active adversaries are involved in the cloud storage. Specifically, an active adversary can arbitrarily alter the cloud data without …
File Detection On Network Traffic Using Approximate Matching, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili
File Detection On Network Traffic Using Approximate Matching, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili
Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications
In recent years, Internet technologies changed enormously and allow faster Internet connections, higher data rates and mobile usage. Hence, it is possible to send huge amounts of data / files easily which is often used by insiders or attackers to steal intellectual property. As a consequence, data leakage prevention systems (DLPS) have been developed which analyze network traffic and alert in case of a data leak. Although the overall concepts of the detection techniques are known, the systems are mostly closed and commercial. Within this paper we present a new technique for network traffic analysis based on approximate matching (a.k.a …
Quantifying Relevance Of Mobile Digital Evidence As They Relate To Case Types: A Survey And A Guide For Best Practices, Shahzad Saleem, Ibrahim Baggili, Oliver Popov
Quantifying Relevance Of Mobile Digital Evidence As They Relate To Case Types: A Survey And A Guide For Best Practices, Shahzad Saleem, Ibrahim Baggili, Oliver Popov
Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications
In this work, a survey was conducted to help quantify the relevance of nineteen types of evidence (such as SMS) to seven types of digital investigations associated with mobile devices (MD) (such as child pornography). 97 % of the respondents agreed that every type of digital evidence has a different level of relevance to further or solve a particular investigation. From 55 serious participants, a data set of 5,772 responses regarding the relevance of nineteen types of digital evidence for all the seven types of digital investigations was obtained. The results showed that (i) SMS belongs to the most relevant …
Evaluating The Security Vulenerabilities Of The Ip6to4 Tunnelling Mechanism, Brian Cusack, Raymond Lutui
Evaluating The Security Vulenerabilities Of The Ip6to4 Tunnelling Mechanism, Brian Cusack, Raymond Lutui
Australian Information Security Management Conference
The two versions of Internet Protocol (IP) rely on mechanisms that will convert one protocol to the other and vice versa. Version 4 is still prevalent in the Internet backbone and version 6 in most private networks. In this research we focus on the automatic tunnelling mechanism that provides the encapsulation at one end of the transition tunnel and the de-encapsulation at the other end dependant on the direction of transition. In our research we asked: How secure is the automatic tunnelling mechanism? It is a simple question but important given the number of times transition may occur in any …
Attribute-Based Encryption With Encryption And Decryption Outsourcing, Muhammad Asim, Milan Petkovic, Tanya Ignatenko
Attribute-Based Encryption With Encryption And Decryption Outsourcing, Muhammad Asim, Milan Petkovic, Tanya Ignatenko
Australian Information Security Management Conference
In this paper we propose a new scheme for ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption that allows outsourcing of computationally expensive encryption and decryption steps. The scheme constitutes an important building block for mobile applications where both the host and users use mobile devices with limited computational power. In the proposed scheme, during encryption the host involves a semi-trusted proxy to encrypt a partially encrypted (by the host) message according to an access policy provided by the host. The proxy is unable to learn the message from this partially encrypted text. A user can only decrypt the stored ciphertext if he possesses secret …
Securing Identity Information With Image Watermarks, Brian Cusack, Reza Khaleghparas
Securing Identity Information With Image Watermarks, Brian Cusack, Reza Khaleghparas
Australian Information Security Management Conference
In this paper, we describe the requirements for embedding watermarks in images used for identity verification and demonstrate a proof of concept in security sciences. The watermarking application is designed for verifying the rightful ownership of a driving license or similar identity object. The tool we built and tested embeds and extracts watermarks that contain verification information of the rightful owner. We used the human finger print of the rightful owner as the watermark. Such information protection mechanisms add an extra layer of security to the information system and improve verification of identification attributes by providing strong security. The issues …
An Analysis Of Security Issues In Building Automation Systems, Matthew Peacock, Michael N. Johnstone
An Analysis Of Security Issues In Building Automation Systems, Matthew Peacock, Michael N. Johnstone
Australian Information Security Management Conference
The purpose of Building Automation Systems (BAS) is to centralise the management of a wide range of building services, through the use of integrated protocol and communication media. Through the use of IP-based communication and encapsulated protocols, BAS are increasingly being connected to corporate networks and also being remotely accessed for management purposes, both for convenience and emergency purposes. These protocols, however, were not designed with security as a primary requirement, thus the majority of systems operate with sub-standard or non-existent security implementations, relying on security through obscurity. Research has been undertaken into addressing the shortfalls of security implementations in …
Persistent Issues In Encryption Software: A Heuristic And Cognitive Walkthrough, Jad El-Abed, Patryk Szewczyk
Persistent Issues In Encryption Software: A Heuristic And Cognitive Walkthrough, Jad El-Abed, Patryk Szewczyk
Australian Information Security Management Conference
The support information accompanying security software can be difficult to understand by end-users, who have little knowledge in cyber security. One mechanism for ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of information is encryption software. Unfortunately, software usability issues can hinder an end-user’s capability to properly utilise the security features effectively. To date there has been little research in investigating the usability of encryption software and proposing solutions for improving them. This research paper analysed the usability of encryption software targeting end-users. The research identified several issues that could impede the ability of a novice end-user to adequately utilise the encryption software. …
Authentication And Authorisation In Entrusted Unions, Ayed F. Dhouha, Jan Camenisch, Tanya Ignatenko, Michael N. Johnstone, Paul Koster, Brigitta Lange, Milan Petkovic, Dieter Sommer, John Zic
Authentication And Authorisation In Entrusted Unions, Ayed F. Dhouha, Jan Camenisch, Tanya Ignatenko, Michael N. Johnstone, Paul Koster, Brigitta Lange, Milan Petkovic, Dieter Sommer, John Zic
Australian Information Security Management Conference
This paper reports on the status of a project whose aim is to implement and demonstrate in a real-life environment an integrated eAuthentication and eAuthorisation framework to enable trusted collaborations and delivery of services across different organisational/governmental jurisdictions. This aim will be achieved by designing a framework with assurance of claims, trust indicators, policy enforcement mechanisms and processing under encryption to address the security and confidentiality requirements of large distributed infrastructures. The framework supports collaborative secure distributed storage, secure data processing and management in both the cloud and offline scenarios and is intended to be deployed and tested in two …
Taking Stock After Four Years, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
Taking Stock After Four Years, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Measuring Security: A Challenge For The Generation, Janusz Zalewski, Steven Drager, William Mckeever, Andrew J. Kornecki
Measuring Security: A Challenge For The Generation, Janusz Zalewski, Steven Drager, William Mckeever, Andrew J. Kornecki
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Daytona Beach
This paper presents an approach to measuring computer security understood as a system property, in the category of similar properties, such as safety, reliability, dependability, resilience, etc. First, a historical discussion of measurements is presented, beginning with views of Hermann von Helmholtz in his 19th century work “Zählen und Messen”. Then, contemporary approaches related to the principles of measuring software properties are discussed, with emphasis on statistical, physical and software models. A distinction between metrics and measures is made to clarify the concepts. A brief overview of inadequacies of methods and techniques to evaluate computer security is presented, followed by …
Is Your Online Data Really Private?, Nathan Pitchaikani
Is Your Online Data Really Private?, Nathan Pitchaikani
A with Honors Projects
In the present age everyone depends on technology. At least once per day someone uses a machine to help them accomplish their tasks. For example, imagine not using a cell phone for a whole day. These days, machines contain personal information or data about their owner. In most cases this isn’t an issue. However, with technology becoming more advanced day by day, there has become a reason to worry. People are able to illegally enter other people’s computers and steal information. Leading to the point that being able to protect one’s personal data is crucial. Learning how to safeguard one’s …
Suitability Of Lacunarity Measure For Blind Steganalysis, Ahmed Ibrahim
Suitability Of Lacunarity Measure For Blind Steganalysis, Ahmed Ibrahim
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
Blind steganalysis performance is influenced by several factors including the features used for classification. This paper investigates the suitability of using lacunarity measure as a potential feature vectorfor blind steganalysis. Differential Box Counting (DBC) based lacunarity measure has been employed using the traditional sequential grid (SG) and a new radial strip (RS) approach. The performance of the multi-class SVM based classifier was unfortunately not what was expected. However, the findings show that both the SG and RS lacunarity produce enough discriminating features that warrant further research.
Finding Evidence Of Wordlists Being Deployed Against Ssh Honeypots – Implications And Impacts, Priya Rabadia, Craig Valli
Finding Evidence Of Wordlists Being Deployed Against Ssh Honeypots – Implications And Impacts, Priya Rabadia, Craig Valli
Australian Digital Forensics Conference
This paper is an investigation focusing on activities detected by three SSH honeypots that utilise Kippo honeypot software. The honeypots were located on the same /24 IPv4 network and configured as identically as possible. The honeypots used the same base software and hardware configurations. The data from the honeypots were collected during the period 17th July 2012 and 26th November 2013, a total of 497 active day periods. The analysis in this paper focuses on the techniques used to attempt to gain access to these systems by attacking entities. Although all three honeypots are have the same configuration settings and …
Using Internet Artifacts To Profile A Child Pornography Suspect, Marcus K. Rogers, Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar
Using Internet Artifacts To Profile A Child Pornography Suspect, Marcus K. Rogers, Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Digital evidence plays a crucial role in child pornography investigations. However, in the following case study, the authors argue that the behavioral analysis or “profiling” of digital evidence can also play a vital role in child pornography investigations. The following case study assessed the Internet Browsing History (Internet Explorer Bookmarks, Mozilla Bookmarks, and Mozilla History) from a suspected child pornography user’s computer. The suspect in this case claimed to be conducting an ad hoc law enforcement investigation. After the URLs were classified (Neutral; Adult Porn; Child Porn; Adult Dating sites; Pictures from Social Networking Profiles; Chat Sessions; Bestiality; Data Cleaning; …
On Cyber Attacks And Signature Based Intrusion Detection For Modbus Based Industrial Control Systems, Wei Gao, Thomas H. Morris
On Cyber Attacks And Signature Based Intrusion Detection For Modbus Based Industrial Control Systems, Wei Gao, Thomas H. Morris
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Industrial control system communication networks are vulnerable to reconnaissance, response injection, command injection, and denial of service attacks. Such attacks can lead to an inability to monitor and control industrial control systems and can ultimately lead to system failure. This can result in financial loss for control system operators and economic and safety issues for the citizens who use these services. This paper describes a set of 28 cyber attacks against industrial control systems which use the MODBUS application layer network protocol. The paper also describes a set of standalone and state based intrusion detection system rules which can be …
Idiographic Digital Profiling: Behavioral Analysis Based On Digital Forensics, Chad M. Steel
Idiographic Digital Profiling: Behavioral Analysis Based On Digital Forensics, Chad M. Steel
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Idiographic digital profiling (IDP) is the application of behavioral analysis to the field of digital forensics. Previous work in this field takes a nomothetic approach to behavioral analysis by attempting to understand the aggregate behaviors of cybercriminals. This work is the first to take an idiographic approach by examining a particular subject's digital footprints for immediate use in an ongoing investigation. IDP provides a framework for investigators to analyze digital behavioral evidence for the purposes of case planning, subject identification, lead generation, obtaining and executing warrants, and prosecuting offenders.
On Identities In Modern Networks, Libor Polcak, Radek Hranick, Tomas Martınek
On Identities In Modern Networks, Libor Polcak, Radek Hranick, Tomas Martınek
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Communicating parties inside computer networks use different kind of identifiers. Some of these identifiers are stable, e.g., logins used to access a specific service, some are only temporary, e.g., dynamically assigned IP addresses. This paper tackles several challenges of lawful interception that emerged in modern networks. The main contribution is the graph model that links identities learnt from various sources distributed in a network. The inferred identities result into an interception of more detailed data in conformance with the issued court order. The approach deals with network address translation, short-lived identifiers and simultaneous usage of different identities. The approach was …
Exploring Forensic Implications Of The Fusion Drive, Shruti Gupta, Marcus Rogers
Exploring Forensic Implications Of The Fusion Drive, Shruti Gupta, Marcus Rogers
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
This paper explores the forensic implications of Apple’s Fusion Drive. The Fusion Drive is an example of auto-tiered storage. It uses a combination of a flash drive and a magnetic drive. Data is moved between the drives automatically to maximize system performance. This is different from traditional caches because data is moved and not simply copied. The research included understanding the drive structure, populating the drive, and then accessing data in a controlled setting to observe data migration strategies. It was observed that all the data is first written to the flash drive with 4 GB of free space always …
Multi-Stakeholder Case Prioritization In Digital Investigations, Joshua I. James
Multi-Stakeholder Case Prioritization In Digital Investigations, Joshua I. James
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
This work examines the problem of case prioritization in digital investigations for better utilization of limited criminal investigation resources. Current methods of case prioritization, as well as observed prioritization methods used in digital forensic investigation laboratories are examined. After, a multi-stakeholder approach to case prioritization is given that may help reduce reputational risk to digital forensic laboratories while improving resource allocation. A survey is given that shows differing opinions of investigation priority between Law Enforcement and the public that is used in the development of a prioritization model. Finally, an example case is given to demonstrate the practicality of the …
An Efficient Similarity Digests Database Lookup – A Logarithmic Divide & Conquer Approach, Frank Breitinger, Christian Rathgeb, Harald Baier
An Efficient Similarity Digests Database Lookup – A Logarithmic Divide & Conquer Approach, Frank Breitinger, Christian Rathgeb, Harald Baier
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
Investigating seized devices within digital forensics represents a challenging task due to the increasing amount of data. Common procedures utilize automated file identification, which reduces the amount of data an investigator has to examine manually. In the past years the research field of approximate matching arises to detect similar data. However, if n denotes the number of similarity digests in a database, then the lookup for a single similarity digest is of complexity of O(n). This paper presents a concept to extend existing approximate matching algorithms, which reduces the lookup complexity from O(n) to O(log(n)). Our proposed approach is based …
Table Of Contents
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
No abstract provided.
From The Editor, Ibrahim Baggili
From The Editor, Ibrahim Baggili
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law
In this issue we have three papers that have made the cut. The first paper titled “The Cost of Privacy: Riley v. California’s Impact on Cell Phone Searches” is timely. In 2014 there was a unanimous decision that requires a warrant for all cell phone searches. This has some strong implications on the forensic analysis of mobile phones, and to that end, this article discusses and summarizes this legal precedent with its practical implications.