Distributed Denial of Service attacks pose a serious threat to the online applications like banking, trade, and e-commerce which are dependent on availability of Internet. Defending Internet from these attacks has become the need of the hour for sustainable development of any economy. Most of the research work in this area focuses on developing defense against these attacks without considering ...

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been offered as a basis for criminal defenses, including insanity, unconsciousness, self-defense, diminished capacity, and sentencing mitigation. Examination of case law (e.g., appellate decisions) involving PTSD reveals that when defense, received mixed treatment in the judicial system. Courts have often recognized testimony about scientifically reliabl...

Security analysis and attack-defense modeling are effective method to identify the vulnerabilities of information systems for proactive defense. The attack graph model reflects only attack actions and system state changes, without considering the perspective of the defenders. To assess the network information system and comprehensively show attack and defense strategies and theirs cost, a defen...