First Amendment Roadblock? Regulating The Misuse Of Generative Ai Technologies: Impersonation And Appropriation Of Likeness Without Permission,
2024
Old Dominion University
First Amendment Roadblock? Regulating The Misuse Of Generative Ai Technologies: Impersonation And Appropriation Of Likeness Without Permission, Muhammad Rabiu
Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase
This paper initially explores the misuse of generative AI technologies, particularly their role in impersonating or appropriating individuals' likeness without consent. It will then analyze technical and legal mitigation strategies and propose recommendations to address this issue in light of the First Amendment’s constitutional Freedom of Speech provision.
From Classroom To Cloud: Why Cybersecurity Education Is Crucial For Tomorrow's Learners,
2024
Old Dominion University
From Classroom To Cloud: Why Cybersecurity Education Is Crucial For Tomorrow's Learners, Kiori Edwards
Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase
This paper examines the transformative impact of cloud computing on education, highlighting how cloud technologies are reshaping teaching and learning environments, making education more accessible, flexible, and collaborative. It also explores the critical importance of incorporating cybersecurity education into school curricula. As digital devices and cloud-based platforms become integral to students' daily lives, they are increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats. This paper argues that early cybersecurity education, starting at the elementary level, is essential for equipping future generations with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the digital world safely, protect their personal information, and avoid cybercrime.
Phishing Emails: An Evolving Cyberattack,
2024
Christopher Newport University
Phishing Emails: An Evolving Cyberattack, Brooke Waltz
Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase
This paper describes the history of phishing attacks and how they turned into cyberattacks, focusing on companies. Over the course of 34 years, phishing has been evolving at an alarming rate, especially with AI now coming into play. As phishing attacks have become more prominent towards companies, there has been an increase in financial loss and data breaches, resulting in a loss of trust in companies. With this loss, companies are trying to find solutions to this problem. Some notable attacks were the RSA breach in 2011, the Texas Energy Company in 2014, and the ILOVEYOU virus in 2000. They …
Hacker, Their Actions, And Fear Appeal: A First Look Through The Lens Of Children,
2024
Utah State University
Hacker, Their Actions, And Fear Appeal: A First Look Through The Lens Of Children, Rizu Paudel, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen
Computer Science Student Research
With the increasing use of computers and smartphones by children, their online safety has become a major concern due to the lack of security awareness. Prior studies pointed to children's poor password habit and vague perceptions on the significance of passwords. While users must be sufficiently motivated to perform a target behavior, a little study to date, focused on understanding how we can encourage children towards strong password creation. As we begin to address this gap, we examined children's perceptions of adversary's actions that instill fear in the context of password compromise. Our semi-structured interviews with 20 children (aged between …
An Evaluation Of The Legal Framework For Seizure And Detention Of Ships For Maritime Law Enforcement In Nigeria,
2024
World Maritime University
An Evaluation Of The Legal Framework For Seizure And Detention Of Ships For Maritime Law Enforcement In Nigeria, Adetayo Yusuf Adesokan
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Human Capital Development : Bridging The Skills Gap In The Maritime Administration Of Namibia,
2024
World Maritime University
Human Capital Development : Bridging The Skills Gap In The Maritime Administration Of Namibia, Agnes Matheus
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Bridging The Protection Gap: Innovative Approaches To Shield Older Adults From Ai-Enhanced Scams,
2024
Dakota State University
Bridging The Protection Gap: Innovative Approaches To Shield Older Adults From Ai-Enhanced Scams, Ld Herrera, London Van Sickle, Ashley L. Podhradsky
Research & Publications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly gaining popularity as individuals, groups, and organizations discover and apply its expanding capabilities. Generative AI creates or alters various content types including text, image, audio, and video that are realistic and challenging to identify as AI-generated constructs. However, guardrails preventing malicious use of AI are easily bypassed. Numerous indications suggest that scammers are already using AI to enhance already successful scams, improving scam effectiveness, speed and credibility, while reducing detectability of scams that target older adults, who are known to be slow to adopt new technologies. Through hypothetical cases analysis of two leading scams, the …
Challenges, Countermeasures, And Forward-Looking Technologies For Cyber Society Governance From System Security Perspective,
2024
MOE Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Challenges, Countermeasures, And Forward-Looking Technologies For Cyber Society Governance From System Security Perspective, Hongbin Pei, Jingxin Hai, Pinghui Wang, Xiaohong Guan
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
With the rapid development and widespread application of artificial intelligence and information technologies, the cyber society has evolved into a new form featuring human-machine integration, mass interaction, and intelligent interconnection. While transforming human life and production, it has also brought security risks such as cyberattacks, privacy breaches, online rumors, and information cocoons, posing serious challenges to social order. Cyber society governance has thus become a key component of national governance modernization. This study proposes the STC governance paradigm from a system security perspective, covering three key dimensions: security (cyber infrastructure security), trustworthiness (credibility of cyber entity identities), and controllability (content …
Bi-Directional Transformers Vs. Word2vec: Discovering Vulnerabilities In Lifted Compiled Code,
2024
Dakota State University
Bi-Directional Transformers Vs. Word2vec: Discovering Vulnerabilities In Lifted Compiled Code, Gary Mccully, John Hastings, Shengjie Xu, Adam Fortier
Research & Publications
Detecting vulnerabilities within compiled binaries is challenging due to lost high-level code structures and other factors such as architectural dependencies, compilers, and optimization options. To address these obstacles, this research explores vulnerability detection using natural language processing (NLP) embedding techniques with word2vec, BERT, and RoBERTa to learn semantics from intermediate representation (LLVM IR) code. Long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks were trained on embeddings from encoders created using approximately 48k LLVM functions from the Juliet dataset. This study is pioneering in its comparison of word2vec models with multiple bidirectional transformers (BERT, RoBERTa) embeddings built using LLVM code to train neural …
The Psychological Impacts Of Algorithmic And Ai-Driven Social Media On Teenagers: A Call To Action,
2024
Dakota State University
The Psychological Impacts Of Algorithmic And Ai-Driven Social Media On Teenagers: A Call To Action, Sunil Arora, Sahil Arora, John Hastings
Research & Publications
This study investigates the meta-issues surrounding social media, which, while theoretically designed to enhance social interactions and improve our social lives by facilitating the sharing of personal experiences and life events, often results in adverse psychological impacts. Our investigation reveals a paradoxical outcome: rather than fostering closer relationships and improving social lives, the algorithms and structures that underlie social media platforms inadvertently contribute to a profound psychological impact on individuals, influencing them in unforeseen ways. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced among teenagers, who are disproportionately affected by curated online personas, peer pressure to present a perfect digital image, and the …
Transforming Information Systems Management: A Reference Model For Digital Engineering Integration,
2024
Dakota State University
Transforming Information Systems Management: A Reference Model For Digital Engineering Integration, John Bonar, John Hastings
Research & Publications
Digital engineering practices offer significant yet underutilized potential for improving information assurance and system lifecycle management. This paper examines how capabilities like model-based engineering, digital threads, and integrated product lifecycles can address gaps in prevailing frameworks. A reference model demonstrates applying digital engineering techniques to a reference information system, exhibiting enhanced traceability, risk visibility, accuracy, and integration. The model links strategic needs to requirements and architecture while reusing authoritative elements across views. Analysis of the model shows digital engineering closes gaps in compliance, monitoring, change management, and risk assessment. Findings indicate purposeful digital engineering adoption could transform cybersecurity, operations, service …
Confronting The Reproducibility Crisis: A Case Study Of Challenges In Cybersecurity Ai,
2024
Dakota State University
Confronting The Reproducibility Crisis: A Case Study Of Challenges In Cybersecurity Ai, Richard H. Moulton, Gary A. Mccully, John D. Hastings
Research & Publications
In the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity, ensuring the reproducibility of AI-driven research is critical to maintaining the reliability and integrity of security systems. This paper addresses the reproducibility crisis within the domain of adversarial robustness—a key area in AI-based cybersecurity that focuses on defending deep neural networks against malicious perturbations. Through a detailed case study, we attempt to validate results from prior work on certified robustness using the VeriGauge toolkit, revealing significant challenges due to software and hardware incompatibilities, version conflicts, and obsolescence. Our findings underscore the urgent need for standardized methodologies, containerization, and comprehensive documentation to ensure the …
Setc: A Vulnerability Telemetry Collection Framework,
2024
Dakota State University
Setc: A Vulnerability Telemetry Collection Framework, Ryan Holeman, John Hastings, Varghese Mathew Vaidyan
Research & Publications
As emerging software vulnerabilities continuously threaten enterprises and Internet services, there is a critical need for improved security research capabilities. This paper introduces the Security Exploit Telemetry Collection (SETC) framework - an automated framework to generate reproducible vulnerability exploit data at scale for robust defensive security research. SETC deploys configurable environments to execute and record rich telemetry of vulnerability exploits within isolated containers. Exploits, vulnerable services, monitoring tools, and logging pipelines are defined via modular JSON configurations and deployed on demand. Compared to current manual processes, SETC enables automated, customizable, and repeatable vulnerability testing to produce diverse security telemetry. This …
A Survey Of Unikernel Security: Insights And Trends From A Quantitative Analysis,
2024
Dakota State University
A Survey Of Unikernel Security: Insights And Trends From A Quantitative Analysis, Alex Wollman, John Hastings
Research & Publications
Unikernels, an evolution of LibOSs, are emerging as a virtualization technology to rival those currently used by cloud providers. Unikernels combine the user and kernel space into one ``uni''fied memory space and omit functionality that is not necessary for its application to run, thus drastically reducing the required resources. The removed functionality is significant however, and includes components that have become common security technologies such as Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR), Data Execution Prevention (DEP), and Non-executable bits (NX bits). This raises questions about the security of unikernels. This research presents a quantitative methodology using TF-IDF to analyze the focus …
A Quantitative Study Assessing The Impact Of Financial Sector Safeguards Rules On Us Publicly Traded Companies' Cybersecurity Breach Frequency And Severity,
2024
Old Dominion University
A Quantitative Study Assessing The Impact Of Financial Sector Safeguards Rules On Us Publicly Traded Companies' Cybersecurity Breach Frequency And Severity, Alan Dinerman
School of Public Service Theses & Dissertations
Cybersecurity failure in the private sector is a growing federal policy priority. Nevertheless, US policy makers struggle with policy instrumentation in this domain. Behavioral public policy theory asserts that a linkage exists between policy target behavioral & cultural attributes and effective policy tool instrumentation. The federal government is now embracing a regulation heavy approach, but little empirical study exists at the nexus of behavioral public policy theory and use of regulatory tools in the cybersecurity policy domain. Since the early 2000s, the financial sector has employed a regulation heavy approach using the Safeguards regulations to facilitate cybersecurity in financial private …
Real Time Pii Scanning,
2024
University of Denver
Real Time Pii Scanning, John David
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The increased amount of web applications and internet software solutions utilizing cloud frameworks has contributed to large data sets of system log messages being generated constantly. These messages may contain sensitive data, creating an additional security risk for the systems and contributing to the need for analysis of such large volumes of data in real time. Large commercial data monitoring systems can solve for these analysis requirements, but they can be costly. We present a solution to analyzing web application log data which ingests it, processes it and visualizes sensitive data found within in real time. Our solution utilizes an …
Evaluation Of Business-Driven Reference Architecture For Big Data Analytics Implementation By Public Sector Organizations In Resource-Constrained Setting: A Case Study Of Uganda,
2024
Department of Information Systems and Technology, The University of Dodoma, Tanzania
Evaluation Of Business-Driven Reference Architecture For Big Data Analytics Implementation By Public Sector Organizations In Resource-Constrained Setting: A Case Study Of Uganda, Matendo Didas
Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)
Big Data Analytics (BDA) is a new area at the nexus of agenda, public sector organizations, and government business. It may satisfy the growing need for trustworthy, cost-effective services in the public sector for better, more informed decision-making processes. BDA has been proposed on the planning schedules of several public sector organizations and the government. Therefore, from the previous work, using Uganda as a case study, specifically the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), Ministry of Health (MoH), and Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), this study aims to evaluate a designed Business-Driven Reference Architecture for Big Data Analytics Implementation (BRABDAI) …
Concept And Development Trend Of Novel E-Infrastructure Platform,
2024
National Science Library (Chengdu), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610299, China; Department of Information Resources Management, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Concept And Development Trend Of Novel E-Infrastructure Platform, Jing Xu, Chuan Tang, Kuangjunyu Yang, Juan Zhang, Ru Huang
Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)
E-infrastructure platform has become a critical strategic asset for driving national scientific and technological innovation, and is the focus of strategic deployment by technologically advanced countries globally. This study, through the analysis of relevant strategy documents in the United States, European Union, and the United Kingdom, the relevant concepts and development changes of the novel E-infrastructure platform have been clarified. It also summarizes the planning process and development stages of e-infrastructure platform in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom, and analyzes that e-infrastructure platform will develop towards a new type of ecological, intelligent, diversified, and full process novel …
Data Communication Over Power-Lines: A Review On Technical, And Applications Challenges,
2024
University of Dar es salaam
Data Communication Over Power-Lines: A Review On Technical, And Applications Challenges, Abdi Abdalla
Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)
This paper presents a review study on the data communication over power-lines, commonly referred to as power-line carrier, power-line communication (PLC), mains communications, or power-line digital subscriber line (PDSL). This study examines the technical and application advantages and challenges associated with adopting PLC as a preferred alternative technology for wideband or broadband data communication. The broader coverage area of the PLC network gives it a distinct advantage over other communication network technologies. Additionally, implementing a communication system using the existing power-line network is more cost-effective and less time-consuming compared to constructing a new network from scratch. However, the primary challenge …
Assessment Of Web Security Vulnerabilities For Common Open Source Virtualization Software,
2024
The Open University of Tanzania
Assessment Of Web Security Vulnerabilities For Common Open Source Virtualization Software, Said Ally
Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)
Open-source hypervisors have emerged as an integral technology for virtualizing server resources in cloud and data center computing. Hypervisor security efficiency is determined by virtual machine isolation, which is a de facto adoption factor in the selection process, as well as its ability to respond to web attacks. This paper assesses the security performance of Proxmox VE and XenServer for type 1 hypervisors, and Kernel Virtual Machine and Oracle Virtual Box for type 2 hypervisors. Security analysis was conducted using common exposures extracted from vulnerability databases and mapped against the OWASP 2013 and 2017 projects. For clarity, experiments were carried …
