Security Challenges Facing IoT Layers and its Protective Measures

Asean and Its Security Offspring: Facing New Challenges

The Challenges and Strategic Imperatives of Nigeria’s Defense and Internal Security Measures since the Fourth Republic

The year 1999 marks a remarkable turnaround in Nigeria’s history and bid for global reckoning as a democratic nation having grappled with a sustained military rule for many decades after her independence. However, with the country’s return to democratic rule, many teething problems evolved which of course is not strange to young and emerging democracies such as Nigeria’s particularly after many...

IoT Privacy and Security Challenges for Smart Home Environments

Often the Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as a single problem domain, with proposed solutions intended to be applied across a wide range of applications. However, the privacy and security needs of critical engineering infrastructure or sensitive commercial operations are very different to the needs of a domestic Smart Home environment. Additionally, the financial and human resources avai...

Advanced Routing Worm and Its Security Challenges

Most well-known worms, such as Code Red, Slammer, Blaster, and Sasser, infected vulnerable computers by scanning the entire IPv4 address space. In this article, the authors present an advanced worm called the “routing worm,” which implements two new attacking techniques. First, a routing worm uses Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing tables to only scan the Internet-routable address space, whi...

IoT Security: A Survey

The Internet of Things (IoT) is still at the top of the Gartner Hype Cycle as the most hyped technology, which means that it is the hottest topic that has gained the most attraction of the researchers currently. In recent years, there have been huge amount of research that have investigated different aspects and concerns of this field. Meanwhile, supplying privacy and security is an inseparable...