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Markov process-based retrieval for encrypted JPEG images

This paper develops a retrieval scheme for encrypted JPEG images based on a Markov process. In our scheme, the stream cipher and permutation encryption are combined to encrypt discrete cosine transform (DCT) c...

Authors: Hang Cheng, Xinpeng Zhang, Jiang Yu and Fengyong Li

Private function evaluation by local two-party computation

Information processing services are becoming increasingly pervasive, such as is demonstrated by the Internet of Things or smart grids. Given the importance that these services have reached in our daily life, t...

Authors: Stefan Rass, Peter Schartner and Monika Brodbeck

Anticollusion solutions for asymmetric fingerprinting protocols based on client side embedding

In this paper, we propose two different solutions for making a recently proposed asymmetric fingerprinting protocol based on client-side embedding robust to collusion attacks. The first solution is based on pr...

Authors: Tiziano Bianchi, Alessandro Piva and Dasara Shullani

Texture based features for robust palmprint recognition: a comparative study

Palmprint is a widely used biometric trait deployed in various access-control applications due to its convenience in use, reliability, and low cost. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme for palmprint recog...

Authors: R. Raghavendra and Christoph Busch

A survey on security attacks and countermeasures with primary user detection in cognitive radio networks

Currently, there are several ongoing efforts for the definition of new regulation policies, paradigms, and technologies aiming a more efficient usage of the radio spectrum. In this context, cognitive radio (CR...

Authors: José Marinho, Jorge Granjal and Edmundo Monteiro

Fingerprint-based crypto-biometric system for network security

To ensure the secure transmission of data, cryptography is treated as the most effective solution. Cryptographic key is an important entity in this process. In general, randomly generated cryptographic key (of...

Authors: Subhas Barman, Debasis Samanta and Samiran Chattopadhyay

Steganalysis of JSteg algorithm using hypothesis testing theory

This paper investigates the statistical detection of JSteg steganography. The approach is based on a statistical model of discrete cosine transformation (DCT) coefficients challenging the usual assumption that...

Authors: Tong Qiao, Florent Retraint, Rémi Cogranne and Cathel Zitzmann

Laribus: privacy-preserving detection of fake SSL certificates with a social P2P notary network

In this paper we present Laribus, a peer-to-peer network designed to detect local man-in-the-middle attacks against secure socket layer/transport layer security (SSL/TLS). With Laribus, clients can validate th...

Authors: Karl-Peter Fuchs, Dominik Herrmann, Andrea Micheloni and Hannes Federrath

Optimized combined-clustering methods for finding replicated criminal websites

To be successful, cybercriminals must figure out how to scale their scams. They duplicate content on new websites, often staying one step ahead of defenders that shut down past schemes. For some scams, such as...

Authors: Jake M Drew and Tyler Moore

MUSE: asset risk scoring in enterprise network with mutually reinforced reputation propagation

Cyber security attacks are becoming ever more frequent and sophisticated. Enterprises often deploy several security protection mechanisms, such as anti-virus software, intrusion detection/prevention systems, a...

Authors: Xin Hu, Ting Wang, Marc Ph Stoecklin, Douglas L Schales, Jiyong Jang and Reiner Sailer

DNSSEC for cyber forensics

Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning is a stepping stone towards advanced (cyber) attacks. DNS cache poisoning can be used to monitor users’ activities for censorship, to distribute malware and spam and to...

Authors: Haya Shulman and Michael Waidner

PeerShark: flow-clustering and conversation-generation for malicious peer-to-peer traffic identification

The distributed and decentralized nature of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks has offered a lucrative alternative to bot-masters to build botnets. P2P botnets are not prone to any single point of failure and have be...

Authors: Pratik Narang, Chittaranjan Hota and VN Venkatakrishnan

Conflict detection in obligation with deadline policies

Many papers have already provided models to formally specify security policies. In this paper, security policies are modeled using deontic concepts of permission and obligation. Permission rules are used to sp...

Authors: Nada Essaouini, Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens-Boulahia and Anas Abou El Kalam

Riding the saddle point: asymptotics of the capacity-achieving simple decoder for bias-based traitor tracing

We study the asymptotic-capacity-achieving score function that was recently proposed by Oosterwijk et al. for bias-based traitor tracing codes. For the bias function, we choose the Dirichlet distribution with ...

Authors: Sarah Ibrahimi, Boris Škorić and Jan-Jaap Oosterwijk

Taxonomy of social network data types

Online social networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of social interaction and communication between people. Reasons include the ubiquity of OSNs that is offered through mobile devices and the possibilit...

Authors: Christian Richthammer, Michael Netter, Moritz Riesner, Johannes Sänger and Günther Pernul

Document authentication using graphical codes: reliable performance analysis and channel optimization

This paper proposes to investigate the impact of the channel model for authentication systems based on codes that are corrupted by a physically unclonable noise such as the one emitted by a printing process. T...

Authors: Anh Thu Phan Ho, Bao An Mai Hoang, Wadih Sawaya and Patrick Bas

Detection and localization of double compression in MP3 audio tracks

In this work, by exploiting the traces left by double compression in the statistics of quantized modified discrete cosine transform coefficients, a single measure has been derived that allows to decide whether...

Authors: Tiziano Bianchi, Alessia De Rosa, Marco Fontani, Giovanni Rocciolo and Alessandro Piva

Edge-based image steganography

This paper proposes a novel steganography technique, where edges in the cover image have been used to embed messages. Amount of data to be embedded plays an important role on the selection of edges, i.e., the ...

Authors: Saiful Islam, Mangat R Modi and Phalguni Gupta

Enhancing the security of LTE networks against jamming attacks

The long-term evolution (LTE) is the newly adopted technology to offer enhanced capacity and coverage for current mobility networks, which experience a constant traffic increase and skyrocketing bandwidth dema...

Authors: Roger Piqueras Jover, Joshua Lackey and Arvind Raghavan

A detailed evaluation of format-compliant encryption methods for JPEG XR-compressed images

JPEG XR is the most recent still image coding standard, and custom security features for this format are required for fast adoption of the standard. Format-compliant encryption schemes are important for many a...

Authors: Stefan Jenisch and Andreas Uhl

How can sliding HyperLogLog and EWMA detect port scan attacks in IP traffic?

IP networks are constantly targeted by new techniques of denial of service attacks (SYN flooding, port scan, UDP flooding, etc), causing service disruption and considerable financial damage. The on-line detect...

Authors: Yousra Chabchoub, Raja Chiky and Betul Dogan

Inside the scam jungle: a closer look at 419 scam email operations

419 scam (also referred to as Nigerian scam) is a popular form of fraud in which the fraudster tricks the victim into paying a certain amount of money under the promise of a future, larger payoff.

Authors: Jelena Isacenkova, Olivier Thonnard, Andrei Costin, Aurélien Francillon and David Balzarotti

ADLU: a novel anomaly detection and location-attribution algorithm for UWB wireless sensor networks

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are gaining more and more interest in the research community due to their unique characteristics. Besides energy consumption considerations, security has emerged as an equally i...

Authors: Eirini Karapistoli and Anastasios A Economides

An enhanced audio ownership protection scheme based on visual cryptography

Recently, several ownership protection schemes which combine encryption and secret sharing technology have been proposed. To reveal the original message, however, they exploited XOR operation which is similar ...

Authors: Rimba Whidiana Ciptasari, Kyung-Hyune Rhee and Kouichi Sakurai

Universal distortion function for steganography in an arbitrary domain

Currently, the most successful approach to steganography in empirical objects, such as digital media, is to embed the payload while minimizing a suitably defined distortion function. The design of the distorti...

Authors: Vojtěch Holub, Jessica Fridrich and Tomáš Denemark

Removal and injection of keypoints for SIFT-based copy-move counter-forensics

Recent studies exposed the weaknesses of scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT)-based analysis by removing keypoints without significantly deteriorating the visual quality of the counterfeited image. As a co...

Authors: Irene Amerini, Mauro Barni, Roberto Caldelli and Andrea Costanzo

A quality metric for IDS signatures: in the wild the size matters

The manual forensics investigation of security incidents is an opaque process that involves the collection and correlation of diverse evidence. In this work we first conduct a complex experiment to expand our ...

Authors: Elias Raftopoulos and Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

Do private and portable web browsers leave incriminating evidence?: a forensic analysis of residual artifacts from private and portable web browsing sessions

The Internet is an essential tool for everyday tasks. Aside from common use, the option to browse the Internet privately is a desirable attribute. However, this can create a problem when private Internet sessi...

Authors: Donny J Ohana and Narasimha Shashidhar

IP traceback through (authenticated) deterministic flow marking: an empirical evaluation

In this paper, we present a novel approach to IP traceback - deterministic flow marking (DFM). We evaluate this novel approach against two well-known IP traceback schemes. These are the probabilistic packet ma...

Authors: Vahid Aghaei-Foroushani and A Nur Zincir-Heywood

Privacy-preserving distributed clustering

Clustering is a very important tool in data mining and is widely used in on-line services for medical, financial and social environments. The main goal in clustering is to create sets of similar objects in a d...

Authors: Zekeriya Erkin, Thijs Veugen, Tomas Toft and Reginald L Lagendijk

Cross-country analysis of spambots

Spam is a vector for cybercrime and commonly legally prohibited. Why do certain national jurisdictions produce a higher percentage of spam than others despite its prohibition? Why do some countries have a high...

Authors: Vaibhav Garg, Thomas Koster and Linda Jean Camp

Detection and analysis of the Chameleon WiFi access point virus

This paper analyses and proposes a novel detection strategy for the 'Chameleon’ WiFi AP-AP virus. Previous research has considered virus construction, likely virus behaviour and propagation methods. The resear...

Authors: Jonny Milliken, Valerio Selis and Alan Marshall

Error correcting codes for robust color wavelet watermarking

This article details the conception, design, development and analysis of invisible, blind and robust color image watermarking algorithms based on the wavelet transform. Using error correcting codes, the waterm...

Authors: Wadood Abdul, Philippe Carré and Philippe Gaborit

Assessing JPEG2000 encryption with key-dependent wavelet packets

We analyze and discuss encryption schemes for JPEG2000 based on the wavelet packet transform with a key-dependent subband structure. These schemes have been assumed to reduce the runtime complexity of encrypti...

Authors: Dominik Engel, Thomas Stütz and Andreas Uhl

phishGILLNET—phishing detection methodology using probabilistic latent semantic analysis, AdaBoost, and co-training

Identity theft is one of the most profitable crimes committed by felons. In the cyber space, this is commonly achieved using phishing. We propose here robust server side methodology to detect phishing attacks,...

Authors: Venkatesh Ramanathan and Harry Wechsler

Protected control packets to prevent denial of services attacks in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

Denial-of-service (DoS) attack exploits inherent limitation of resources in wireless networks in attempt to overwhelm and exhaust their finite capacity. In wireless networks, clear-text form of control packets...

Authors: Mina Malekzadeh, Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani and Shamala Subramaniam

A survey on biometric cryptosystems and cancelable biometrics

Form a privacy perspective most concerns against the common use of biometrics arise from the storage and misuse of biometric data. Biometric cryptosystems and cancelable biometrics represent emerging technolog...

Authors: Christian Rathgeb and Andreas Uhl

Intrusion detection model based on selective packet sampling

Recent experimental work by Androulidakis and Papavassiliou (IET Commun 2(3):399, 2008; IEEE Netw 23(1):6, 2009) has shown that it is possible to maintain a high level of network security while selectively ins...

Authors: Ezzat G Bakhoum

2DPCA fractal features and genetic algorithm for efficient face representation and recognition

In this article, we present an automatic face recognition system. We show that fractal features obtained from Iterated Function System allow a successful face recognition and outperform the classical approache...

Authors: Yousra Ben Jemaa, Ahmed Derbel and Ahmed Ben Jmaa

Research of Spatial Domain Image Digital Watermarking Payload

Watermarking payload is a topic in which the watermarking researchers have a great interest at present. Based on the constraint of "perceptual invisibility," this paper makes a study of the maximum watermarkin...

Authors: Mao Jia-Fa, Zhang Ru, Niu Xin-Xin, Yang Yi-Xian and Zhou Lin-Na

Binary Biometric Representation through Pairwise Adaptive Phase Quantization

Extracting binary strings from real-valued biometric templates is a fundamental step in template compression and protection systems, such as fuzzy commitment, fuzzy extractor, secure sketch, and helper data sy...

Authors: Chun Chen and Raymond Veldhuis

Video-Object Oriented Biometrics Hiding for User Authentication under Error-Prone Transmissions

An automatic video-object oriented steganographic system is proposed for biometrics authentication over error-prone networks. Initially, the host video object is automatically extracted through analysis of vid...

Authors: Klimis Ntalianis, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis and Athanasios Drigas

Hierarchical Spread Spectrum Fingerprinting Scheme Based on the CDMA Technique

Digital fingerprinting is a method to insert user's own ID into digital contents in order to identify illegal users who distribute unauthorized copies. One of the serious problems in a fingerprinting system is...

Authors: Minoru Kuribayashi

A Simple Scheme for Constructing Fault-Tolerant Passwords from Biometric Data

We present a simple combinatorial construction for the mapping of the biometric vectors to short strings, called the passwords. A verifier has to decide whether a given vector can be considered as a corrupted ...

Authors: VladimirB Balakirsky and AJHan Vinck

Logistic Map-Based Fragile Watermarking for Pixel Level Tamper Detection and Resistance

An efficient fragile image watermarking technique for pixel level tamper detection and resistance is proposed. It uses five most significant bits of the pixels to generate watermark bits and embeds them in the th...

Authors: Shan Suthaharan

Secure Arithmetic Coding with Error Detection Capability

Recently, arithmetic coding has attracted the attention of many scholars because of its high compression capability. Accordingly, this paper proposed a Joint Source-Cryptographic-Channel Coding (JSCC) based on...

Authors: Mahnaz Sinaie and Vahid Tabataba Vakili

GUC100 Multisensor Fingerprint Database for In-House (Semipublic) Performance Test

For evaluation of biometric performance of biometric components and system, the availability of independent databases and desirably independent evaluators is important. Both databases of significant size and i...

Authors: Davrondzhon Gafurov, Patrick Bours, Bian Yang and Christoph Busch

Reversible Watermarking Techniques: An Overview and a Classification

An overview of reversible watermarking techniques appeared in literature during the last five years approximately is presented in this paper. In addition to this a general classification of algorithms on the b...

Authors: Roberto Caldelli, Francesco Filippini and Rudy Becarelli

Enhancing Privacy Protection in Multimedia Systems

Authors: Sen-chingSamson Cheung, Deepa Kundur and Andrew Senior

On the Implementation of Spread Spectrum Fingerprinting in Asymmetric Cryptographic Protocol

Digital fingerprinting of multimedia contents involves the generation of a fingerprint, the embedding operation, and the realization of traceability from redistributed contents. Considering a buyer's right, th...

Authors: Minoru Kuribayashi