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On The Development Of A Digital Forensics Curriculum, Manghui Tu, Dianxiang Xu, Samsuddin Wira, Cristian Balan, Kyle Cronin 2012 Purdue University, Calumet

On The Development Of A Digital Forensics Curriculum, Manghui Tu, Dianxiang Xu, Samsuddin Wira, Cristian Balan, Kyle Cronin

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

Computer Crime and computer related incidents continue their prevalence and frequency, resulting in losses approaching billions of dollars. To fight against these crimes and frauds, it is urgent to develop digital forensics education programs to train a suitable workforce that can effectively investigate computer crimes and incidents. There is presently no standard to guide the design of digital forensics curriculum for an academic program. In this research, previous work on digital forensics curriculum design and existing education programs are thoroughly investigated. Both digital forensics educators and practitioners were surveyed and results were analyzed to determine the industry and law enforcement …


A Method For Securing Online Community Service: A Study Of Selected Western Australian Councils, Sunsern Limwiriyakul 2012 Edith Cowan University

A Method For Securing Online Community Service: A Study Of Selected Western Australian Councils, Sunsern Limwiriyakul

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Since the Internet was made publicly accessible, it has become increasingly popular and its deployment has been broad and global thereby facilitating a range of available online services such as Electronic Mail (email), news or bulletins, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and World Wide Web (WWW). Progressively, other online services such as telephony, video conference, video on demand, Interactive Television (ITV) and Geographic Information System (GIS) have been integrated with the Internet and become publicly available. Presently, Internet broadband communication services incorporating both wired and wireless network technologies has seen the emergence of the concept of a digital community which has …


Novel Techniques Of Using Diversity In Software Security And Information Hiding, Jin HAN 2012 Singapore Management University

Novel Techniques Of Using Diversity In Software Security And Information Hiding, Jin Han

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Diversity is an important and valuable concept that has been adopted in many fields to reduce correlated risks and to increase survivability. In information security, diversity also helps to increase both defense capability and fault tolerance for information systems and communication networks, where diversity can be adopted from many different perspectives. This dissertation, in particular, focuses mainly on two aspects of diversity – the application software diversity and the diversity in data interpretation. Software diversity has many advantages over mono-culture in improving system security. A number of previous researches focused on utilizing existing off-theshelf diverse software for network protection and …


The End Of The Beginning, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson 2012 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

The End Of The Beginning, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Intricacies Of Independence, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantession 2012 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

The Intricacies Of Independence, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantession

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Challenge Of "Big Data" For Data Protection, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson 2012 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

The Challenge Of "Big Data" For Data Protection, Fred H. Cate, Christopher Kuner, Christopher Millard, Dan Jerker B. Svantesson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Systematic Government Access To Private-Sector Data, Fred H. Cate, James X. Dempsey, Ira S. Rubenstein 2012 Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Systematic Government Access To Private-Sector Data, Fred H. Cate, James X. Dempsey, Ira S. Rubenstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Dynamic Secure Cloud Storage With Provenance, Sherman S. M. CHOW, Cheng-Kang CHU, Xinyi HUANG, Jianying ZHOU, Robert H. DENG 2012 University of Waterloo

Dynamic Secure Cloud Storage With Provenance, Sherman S. M. Chow, Cheng-Kang Chu, Xinyi Huang, Jianying Zhou, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

One concern in using cloud storage is that the sensitive data should be confidential to the servers which are outside the trust domain of data owners. Another issue is that the user may want to preserve his/her anonymity in the sharing or accessing of the data (such as in Web 2.0 applications). To fully enjoy the benefits of cloud storage, we need a confidential data sharing mechanism which is fine-grained (one can specify who can access which classes of his/her encrypted files), dynamic (the total number of users is not fixed in the setup, and any new user can decrypt …


A Survey And Analysis Of Solutions To The Oblivious Memory Access Problem, Erin Elizabeth Chapman 2012 Portland State University

A Survey And Analysis Of Solutions To The Oblivious Memory Access Problem, Erin Elizabeth Chapman

Dissertations and Theses

Despite the use of strong encryption schemes, one can still learn information about encrypted data using side channel attacks [2]. Watching what physical memory is being accessed can be such a side channel. One can hide this information by using oblivious simulation - hiding the true access pattern of a program. In this paper we will review the model behind oblivious simulation, attempt to formalize the problem and define a security game. We will review the major solutions pro- posed so far, the square root and hierarchical solutions, as well as propose a new variation on the square root solution. …


Front Matter, 2011 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Front Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Masthead, 2011 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Masthead

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Back Matter, 2011 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Back Matter

Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Automated Removal Of Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities In Web Applications, Lwin Khin SHAR, Hee Beng Kuan TAN 2011 Singapore Management University

Automated Removal Of Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities In Web Applications, Lwin Khin Shar, Hee Beng Kuan Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Context: Cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is among the top web application vulnerabilities according to recent surveys. This vulnerability occurs when a web application uses inputs received from users in web pages without properly checking them. This allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts in web pages via such inputs such that the scripts perform malicious actions when a client visits the exploited web pages. Such an attack may cause serious security violations such as account hijacking and cookie theft. Current approaches to mitigate this problem mainly focus on effective detection of XSS vulnerabilities in the programs or prevention of …


On Two Rfid Privacy Notions And Their Relations, Yingjiu LI, Robert H. DENG, Junzuo LAI, Changshe MA 2011 Singapore Management University

On Two Rfid Privacy Notions And Their Relations, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng, Junzuo Lai, Changshe Ma

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Privacy of RFID systems is receiving increasing attention in the RFID community. Basically, there are two kinds of RFID privacy notions in the literature: one based on the indistinguishability of two tags, denoted as ind-privacy, and the other based on the unpredictability of the output of an RFID protocol, denoted as unp*-privacy. In this article, we first revisit the existing unpredictability-based RFID privacy models and point out their limitations. We then propose a new RFID privacy model, denoted as unp*-privacy, based on the indistinguishability of a real tag and a virtual tag. We formally clarify its relationship with the ind-privacy …


Understanding And Protecting Privacy: Formal Semantics And Principled Audit Mechanisms, Anupam DATTA, Jeremiah BLOCKI, Nicolas CHRISTIN, Henry DeYOUNG, Deepak GARG, Limin JIA, Dilsun KAYNAR, Arunesh SINHA 2011 Singapore Management University

Understanding And Protecting Privacy: Formal Semantics And Principled Audit Mechanisms, Anupam Datta, Jeremiah Blocki, Nicolas Christin, Henry Deyoung, Deepak Garg, Limin Jia, Dilsun Kaynar, Arunesh Sinha

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Privacy has become a significant concern in modern society as personal information about individuals is increasingly collected, used, and shared, often using digital technologies, by a wide range of organizations. Certain information handling practices of organizations that monitor individuals’ activities on the Web, data aggregation companies that compile massive databases of personal information, cell phone companies that collect and use location data about individuals, online social networks and search engines—while enabling useful services—have aroused much indignation and protest in the name of privacy. Similarly, as healthcare organizations are embracing electronic health record systems and patient portals to enable patients, employees, …


Launching Return-Oriented Programming Attacks Against Randomized Relocatable Executables, Limin LIU, JIN Han, Debin GAO, Jiwu JING, Daren ZHA 2011 Singapore Management University

Launching Return-Oriented Programming Attacks Against Randomized Relocatable Executables, Limin Liu, Jin Han, Debin Gao, Jiwu Jing, Daren Zha

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Since the day it was proposed, return-oriented programming has shown to be an effective and powerful attack technique against the write or execute only (W ⊕ X) protection. However, a general belief in the previous research is, systems deployed with address space randomization where the executables are also randomized at run-time are able to defend against return-oriented programming, as the addresses of all instructions are randomized. In this paper, we show that due to the weakness of current address space randomization technique, there are still ways of launching return-oriented programming attacks against those well-protected systems efficiently. We demonstrate and evaluate …


Profit-Maximizing Firm Investments In Customer Information Security, Yong Yick LEE, Robert J. KAUFFMAN, Ryan SOUGSTAD 2011 Arizona State University

Profit-Maximizing Firm Investments In Customer Information Security, Yong Yick Lee, Robert J. Kauffman, Ryan Sougstad

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

When a customer interacts with a firm, extensive personal information often is gathered without the individual's knowledge. Significant risks are associated with handling this kind of information. Providing protection may reduce the risk of the loss and misuse of private information, but it imposes some costs on both the firm and its customers. Nevertheless, customer information security breaches still may occur. They have several distinguishing characteristics: (1) typically it is hard to quantify monetary damages related to them; (2) customer information security breaches may be caused by intentional attacks, as well as through unintentional organizational and customer behaviors; and (3) …


Applying Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment In Wireless Sensor Networks, Wentao ZHU, Robert H. DENG, Jianying ZHOU, Feng BAO 2011 Chinese Academy of Sciences

Applying Time-Bound Hierarchical Key Assignment In Wireless Sensor Networks, Wentao Zhu, Robert H. Deng, Jianying Zhou, Feng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Access privileges in distributed systems can be effectively organized as a partial-order hierarchy that consists of distinct security classes, and are often designated with certain temporal restrictions. The time-bound hierarchical key assignment problem is to assign distinct cryptographic keys to distinct security classes according to their privileges so that users from a higher class can use their class key to derive the keys of lower classes, and these keys are time-variant with respect to sequentially allocated temporal units called time slots. In this paper, we explore applications of time-bound hierarchical key assignment in a wireless sensor network environment where there …


Privacy In "The Cloud": Applying Nissenbaum's Theory Of Contextual Integrity, Frances Grodzinsky, Herman T. Tavani 2011 Sacred Heart University

Privacy In "The Cloud": Applying Nissenbaum's Theory Of Contextual Integrity, Frances Grodzinsky, Herman T. Tavani

School of Computer Science & Engineering Faculty Publications

The present essay is organized into five main sections. We begin with a few preliminary remarks about "cloud computing," which are developed more fully in a later section. This is followed by a brief overview of the evolution of Helen Nissenbaum's framework of "privacy as contextual integrity." In particular, we examine Nissenbaum's "Decision Heuristic" model, described in her most recent work on privacy (Nissenabum 2010), to see how it enables the contextual-integrity framework to respond to privacy challenges posed by new and emerging technologies. We then apply that heuristic device to questions surrounding one aspect of cloud computing -- viz., …


General Construction Of Chameleon All-But-One Trapdoor Functions, Shengli LIU, Junzuo LAI, Robert H. DENG 2011 Shanghai Jiaotong University

General Construction Of Chameleon All-But-One Trapdoor Functions, Shengli Liu, Junzuo Lai, Robert H. Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Lossy trapdoor functions enable black-box construction of public key encryption (PKE) schemes secure against chosen-ciphertext attack [18]. Recently, a more efficient black-box construction of public key encryption was given in [12] with the help of chameleon all-but-one trapdoor functions (ABO-TDFs).In this paper, we propose a black-box construction for transforming any ABO-TDFs into chameleon ABO-TDFs with the help of chameleon hash functions. Instantiating the proposed general black-box construction of chameleon ABO-TDFs, we can obtain the first chameleon ABO-TDFs based on the Decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption.


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