Identifying manipulated regions in images is a challenging task due to the existence of very accurate image inpainting techniques leaving almost unnoticeable traces in tampered regions. These image inpainting methods can ...

We investigate in this paper the need to managing a user’s private credentials using privacy-preserving biometrics, define several private credential management work models under different trust models between a user and ...

Municipalities are tasked with ensuring the cybersecurity of critical public services and functions in diverse areas such as safe water supply, healthcare, child protective services, and education with vastly different ...

The main challenge in a honeywords system is how to generate artificial passwords (honeywords) that are indistinguishable from the genuine password (sugarword). It is straightforward to consider the PassGAN for generating ...

In a biometric authentication system using protected templates, a pseudonymous identifier is the part of a protected template that can be directly compared. Each compared pair of pseudonymous identifiers results in a ...

Digital security uses traditional authentication mechanisms to verify the identity of an entity or a user who seeks access to a system, service, or application. Such authentication mechanisms verify user identity only at ...

Humans are smart when facing solely technical attacks; they invented technical strategies to defend against technical attacks. However, when facing a social engineering attack, a socio-technical attack, humans become the ...

An investigation was conducted into web vulnerabilities in commonly used web application templates and frameworks (WAFs) systems such as Joomla, WordPress, Moodle and C #.Net framework. A web vulnerability scoring scheme ...