Cybersecurity

Strategic Remote Attestation: Testbed for Internet-of-Things Devices and Stackelberg Security Game for Optimal Strategies

Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications can have significant vulnerabilities, which may be exploited by adversaries to cause considerable harm. An important approach for …

Shanto Roy
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DeimosBC: A Blockchain-based System for Crowdsensing after Natural Disasters

For first responders entering into a post-disaster situation, there is usually a severe lack of up-to-date ground truth. The initial period of time has multiple sources of …

Raunak Sarbajna
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Selfish Mining Attacks Exacerbated by Elastic Hash Supply

Several attacks have been proposed against Proof-of-Work blockchains, which may increase the attacker’s share of mining rewards (e.g., selfish mining, block withholding). A further …

Yoko Shibuya
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Safe and Private Forward-Trading Platform for Transactive Microgrids

Power grids are evolving at an unprecedented pace due to the rapid growth of distributed energy resources (DER) in communities. These resources are very different from traditional …

Scott Eisele
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Data-Driven Decision Support for Optimizing Cyber Forensic Investigations

Cyber attacks consisting of several attack actions can present considerable challenge to forensic investigations. Consider the case where a cybersecurity breach is suspected …

Antonia Nisioti
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Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning based Adaptive Moving Target Defense

Moving target defense (MTD) is a proactive defense approach that aims to thwart attacks by continuously changing the attack surface of a system (e.g., changing host or network …

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Taha Eghtesad
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Vyper: A Security Comparison with Solidity Based on Common Vulnerabilities

Vyper has been proposed as a new high-level language for Ethereum smart contract development due to numerous security vulnerabilities and attacks witnessed on contracts written in …

Mudabbir Kaleem
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Equilibrium of Blockchain Miners with Dynamic Asset Allocation

We model and analyze blockchain miners who seek to maximize the compound return of their mining businesses. The analysis of the optimal strategies finds a new equilibrium point …

Go Yamamoto
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Blockchains for Transactive Energy Systems: Opportunities, Challenges, and Approaches

The emergence of blockchains and smart contracts have renewed interest in electrical cyber-physical systems, especially in the area of transactive energy systems. However, despite …

Scott Eisele
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A Privacy-preserving Mobile and Fog Computing Framework to Trace and Prevent COVID-19 Community Transmission

To slow down the spread of COVID-19, governments worldwide are trying to identify infected people, and contain the virus by enforcing isolation, and quarantine. However, it is …

Md Whaiduzzaman
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