SOCIAL DEFENCE AS NATIONAL DEFENCE: THE CHOICE FOR NIGERIA

SOCIAL DEFENCE ( Vision 2020 )

A social-network defence against whitewashing

We provide a defence against whitewashing for trust assessment mechanisms (TAM) by using an underlying social network in MAS and P2P. Since interaction requests are routed through the social network, routers can block requests from portions of the network known for whitewashing. Furthermore, by limiting feedback spread to the interaction routers, the trust assessment can be done without queryin...

The Centre for Defence Medicine.

Anti-social networking: crowdsourcing and the cyber defence of national critical infrastructures.

We identify four roles that social networking plays in the 'attribution problem', which obscures whether or not cyber-attacks were state-sponsored. First, social networks motivate individuals to participate in Distributed Denial of Service attacks by providing malware and identifying potential targets. Second, attackers use an individual's social network to focus attacks, through spear phishing...

Medical Defence