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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Security Vulnerability"”.
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Machine Learning in Security Vulnerability Research
… explores the application of ML in cybersecurity, with a specific focus on offensive security. To examine existing work on the roles of AI and ML in vulnerability discovery, I conducted a targeted review of the literature, which indicated that fuzz testing, a method in which an automated …
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DR_BEV: Developer Recommendation Based on Executed Vocabulary
… also described textually. Certain bugs, such as security vulnerability bugs, are only represented with a faulty program execution, and are not described textually. In other words, these bugs are represented by a code coverage, which indicates which lines of source code have been executed in the …
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Sanitizing private data for repair systems
… restore interconnected system integrity after security attacks with a focus of minimizing the exposure of sensitive data in the repair logs. It builds upon Warp, a repair system for Django web applications which logs all major actions taken by the server from incoming request to outgoing …
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Security assessment of open source third-parties applications
… into their software supply chain. Each time a vulnerability is disclosed in a FOSS component, a software vendor must decide whether to update the component, patch the application itself, or just do nothing as the vulnerability is not applicable to the deployed version that may be old enough to …
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Design for Security: Measurement, Analysis and Mitigation Techniques
… is focused on measurement and analysis of security vulnerability impact and root causes, as well as the design of several techniques for vulnerability mitigation. The research begins with the analysis of the security vulnerabilities published in the Bugtraq list and CERT advisories. An …
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Development of a Landscape Vulnerability Assessment Model in a Heightened Security Environment
Do current landscape security practices provide sufficient protection to support building sustainability in the event of a terrorist attack? By exploring the relative effectiveness of current landscape security practices and methodologies, this thesis proposes to provide the landscape architect …
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Protection Motivation Theory: Understanding the Determinants of Individual Security Behavior
… but if individuals do not make appropriate security protection decisions they introduce holes that technological solutions cannot protect. This study investigates what personal characteristics influence differences in individual security behaviors, defined as behaviors to protect against …
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Theory and Patterns for Avoiding Regex Denial of Service
… Unfortunately, they can also lead to a security vulnerability called ReDoS(Regular Expression Denial of Service), caused by a super-linear worst-case execution time during regex matching. ReDoS has a serious and wide impact: since applications written in most programming languages can be …
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Towards breach hypothesis based predictive autonomous cyber defense ecosystem: Proactive prevention of imminent threats and productivity losses
… get sophisticated and persistent, reactive cybersecurity has been unable to effectively prevent breaches and compromises. Organizations and institutions with large complex environments have wide vulnerable exposure with higher chances of a cyberattack. This also increases overall security and …
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ASSESSING AND IMPROVING THE RELIABILITY AND SECURITY OF CIRCUITS AFFECTED BY NATURAL AND INTENTIONAL FAULTS
<p>The reliability and security vulnerability of modern electronic systems have emerged as concerns due to the increasing natural and intentional interferences. Radiation of high-energy charged particles generated from space environment or packaging materials on the substrate of integrated circuits …
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Using redundancy to improve security and testing
… systems are complex. Their complexity leads to security vulnerabilities and software bugs that are hard to fix using existing techniques. One current trend is that nowadays we have more redundant resources available in computer systems. Redundant resources are independent computing units that …
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Practical processing and acceleration of graph neural networks
… a step towards tackling these efficiency and security issues? A recurring theme in this thesis is that the loss of regular structure introduces several unique challenges to GNNs: techniques that may work for other common neural network architectures do not necessarily apply to GNNs. The thesis …
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Secure Networking and Efficient Computing in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Green IoT Networks
… thrust of this dissertation, we identify a new security vulnerability within GIoT networks, called ``malicious energy attacks''. These attacks exploit the energy-aware routing selection designed to prolong network life. By intentionally charging specific nodes, the energy attacker can manipulate …
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A Quantitative Security Assessment of Modern Cyber Attacks. A Framework for Quantifying Enterprise Security Risk Level Through System's Vulnerability Analysis by Detecting Known and Unknown Threats
Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report clearly outlines the evolution of the threat landscape and the increase of the number of attacks. The UK government in 2012 recognised the cyber threat as Tier-1 threat since about 50 government departments have been either subjected to an attack or a direct threat …
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Countering Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in the Power System
<p>Security vulnerabilities in software pose an important threat to power grid security, which can be exploited by attackers if not properly addressed. Every month, many vulnerabilities are discovered and all the vulnerabilities must be remediated in a timely manner to reduce the chance of being …
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The Paradox of Social Media Security: A Study of IT Students’ Perceptions versus Behavior on Using Facebook
… sites have become major targets for cyber-security attacks due to their massive user base. Many studies investigated the security vulnerabilities and privacy issues of social networking sites and made recommendations on how to mitigate security risks. Users are an integral part of any …
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An evaluation of the determinants of resilience to drought in Malawi
… level focused on exploring the causes of vulnerability, the role of livelihood assets and institutions in shaping coping and adaptation, and the implication of these to the meaning of resilience.<br/><br/>The thesis concluded that vulnerability to food insecurity was produced by an …
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THE SCALABLE AND ACCOUNTABLE BINARY CODE SEARCH AND ITS APPLICATIONS
… <p>This big-data era challenges the existing security technologies: new analysis techniques</p> <p>should be scalable to handle “big data” scale codebase; They should be become smart</p> <p>and proactive by using the data to understand what the vulnerable points are and where</p> <p>they …