Securing Schools against Terrorist Attacks

Securing Against Insider Attacks

e are all creatures of habit; the way we think and the views we take are conditioned by our education, society as a whole, and, at a much deeper level, our cultural memories or instinct. It is sometimes surprising how much the past can unconsciously affect today’s thinking. George Santayana famously observed, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But when it comes to ...

Securing OpenSSL against Micro-Architectural Attacks

This paper presents a version of the 2k-ary modular exponentiation algorithm that is secure against current methods of side-channel analysis that can be applied to PCs (the so-called micro-architectural attacks). Some optimisations to the basic algorithm are also proposed to improve the efficiency of an implementation. The proposed algorithm is compared to the current implementation of OpenSSL,...

Securing e-voting against MITM attacks

Man in the middle attacks involve the interception and retransmission of electronic messages in a way that the original parties will presume that their communication is secure. Such an attack could be a threat to any electronic voting scenario. This paper proposes a novel method for preventing this kind of attacks by including in the transaction a challenge-response test. The human end-user is ...

Techniques for Securing Networks Against Criminal Attacks

The main Internet security problems nowadays can be reduced to three major fields: Hackers have software programs that scan automatically networks for security weaknesses, more and more PC’s are connect directly to the Internet without using security mechanisms and E-Commerce paradigms require high quality consumer access that contradicts security objectives. As we will show in this paper, seve...

Securing symmetric watermarking schemes against protocol attacks