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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Cyber-attacks"”.
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Escaping cyber attacks
… of mobile escape room games as a tool for cybersecurity education. With an increasing prevalence of cyber attacks on both individuals and organizations, effective cybersecurity education has never been more necessary. By taking a mixed-methods approach, we conducted initial interviews, …
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A FEDERATED DEEP AUTOENCODER FOR DETECTING IOT CYBER ATTACKS
… IoT devices, such as botnets and malware-based attacks, have always been difficult for traditional detection systems. However, deep learning-based solutions have been utilized in recent years, and many challenges have yet to be addressed. In this thesis, we propose a federated-based approach, …
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Preemptive Detection of Cyber Attacks on Industrial Control Systems
… IT infrastructures, are vulnerable to attacks originating from network channels. Perimeter security techniques such as access control and firewalls have had limited success in mitigating such attacks due to the frequent updates required by standard computing platforms, third-party …
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A testbed to simulate cyber attacks on nuclear power plants
… these intrusions are both physical and cyber. The increasing usage of digital control and computer systems, for supervisory control and data acquisition in the control rooms of new generation nuclear reactors, has introduced several cyber security issues that must be addressed. One of …
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Threat Assessment for Multistage Cyber Attacks in Smart Grid Communication Networks
… smart grids is making smart grids vulnerable to cyber threats, as well as raising numerous concerns about the adequacy of current security approaches. As a single act of penetration is often not sufficient for an attacker to achieve his/her goal, multistage cyber attacks may occur. Due to the …
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Anomaly detection methods for detecting cyber attacks in industrial control systems
… modern society and increasingly under threat of cyber attack. Due to the critical nature of these systems, which govern everything from power and wastewater plants to refineries and manufacturing, a successful ICS cyber attack can result in serious physical consequences. This thesis evaluates …
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A Military Planning Methodology for Conducting Cyber Attacks on Power Grid
… targets and have been targeted with kinetic attacks in previous military operations. These attacks resulted in significant levels of physical destruction, which, in the long-term, both undermined the success of the operations and caused severe adverse effects on the human terrain. Since power …
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The Dialectics of Cyberspace: Communication Ethics as First Response to Cyber Attacks
… project recognizes the need to re-conceptualize cyberspace according to its characteristic dialectical tensions in order to offer lasting, adequate responses to cyber attacks. Scholars across multiple disciplines recognize the ineffectiveness of perimeter defense strategies, or the raising of …
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A Game Theoretic Framework to Secure Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) against Cyber Attacks
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a term describing a broad range of complex, multi-disciplinary, physically-aware next generation engineered systems that integrate embedded computing technologies (cyber part) into the physical world. CPS are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, …
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Using a systems-theoretic approach to analyze cyber attacks on cyber-physical systems
… and the advent of the industrial Internet, cyber-physical systems are increasingly being targeted by cyber attacks. Unlike, cyber attacks on IT networks, successfully compromising a cyber-physical environment takes considerably more time, motivation, expertise, and operational costs to the …
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Cyber attacks detection in electric vehicles fast charging stations using wavelets and deep learning
… makes many of the smart grid assets prone to cyber vulnerability threats. This thesis addresses the impact of cyber-attack in the electric vehicles fast charging stations and its consequences on the power quality. The thesis proposes a cyber-attacks detection approach based on signal …
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Digital Dictators: How Different Types of Authoritarian Regimes Use Cyber Attacks to Legitimize Their Rule
… and dependent on digitized technologies and cyberspace, threat actors have been aggressively exploiting these changes to their own advantage. Of particular concern to academics, cyber experts and national security practitioners in the West, has been the rapid proliferation of damaging and …
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EFFECTIVENESS OF NATIONAL CYBER POLICY TO STRENGTHEN THE SECURITY AND RESILIENCE OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AGAINST CYBER ATTACKS
… of critical infrastructure against physical and cyber threats. Per policy, critical infrastructure is categorized into 16 sectors. Security and resiliency efforts against cyber threats are constrained by this sector-based approach. This thesis assesses the sector-based approach by the following …
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Random Forest-based detection of cyber-attacks in substation automation systems in the context of IEC 61850 GOOSE communication protocol
… that make the electricity grid prone to cyberattacks. Cyberattack threats such as data manipulation and replay attacks typically target substation automation systems and hence causing severe damage to the electricity grid assets leading to significant economic loss. In order to make the …
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Establishment of a Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Test Bed to Explore Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) Vulnerabilities to Cyber Attacks
… work has proposed TCAS vulnerabilities to attacks from malicious actors with low cost software defined radios (SDR) and inexpensive open-source software (GNU radio) where spoofing TCAS radio signals in now possible. This paper outlines a proposed threat model for several TCAS …
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A self-healing framework to combat cyber attacks. Analysis and development of a self-healing mitigation framework against controlled malware attacks for enterprise networks.
Cybercrime costs a total loss of about $338 billion annually which makes it one of the most profitable criminal activities in the world. Controlled malware (Botnet) is one of the most prominent tools used by cybercriminals to infect, compromise computer networks and steal important information. …
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Analyzing Global Cyber Attack Correlates Through an Open Database
… and communication for every aspect of life, cyber attacks pose a growing threat. However, cyber attacks are generally understood as individual incidents reported in technological circles, sometimes tied to a particular vulnerability. They are not generally understood through the macroscopic …
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Cyber Attack Modelling using Threat Intelligence. An investigation into the use of threat intelligence to model cyber-attacks based on elasticsearch and honeypot data analysis
Cyber-attacks have become an increasing threat to organisations as well as the wider public. This has led to greatly negative impacts on the economy at large and on the everyday lives of people. Every successful cyber attack on targeted devices and networks highlights the weaknesses within the …
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