Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective

“Fast-flux” refers to rapidly assigning different IP addresses to the same domain name. Although there are some legitimate uses for this technique, recently it has become a favorite tool for cyber criminals to launch collaborative attacks. After it was ...

Compliance Management CM is the management process that an organization implements to ensure organizational compliance with relevant requirements and expectations. The most complicated, time-consuming, and costly process in CM is compliance checking ...

This paper addresses the problem of data security and fault tolerance in the Cloud. The application of the proposed model includes organizations, business groups, and establishments where the data are highly confidential and need to be kept in a very ...

In this paper, a saliency-based digital watermarking system which employs a higher degree security by means of Symmetric Key Cryptography is proposed. The projected algorithm can implant more information into less perceptive areas within the original ...

Botnets, a network of malware-infected computers, have been used for a range of malicious activities. Evolving from fast fluxing to employing anonymous networks, they have matured and have become exceedingly sophisticated over the years. Understanding ...

SMS Spam, which is an unsolicited or unwanted message, is a major problem with Global System for Mobile Communication GSM subscribers. Existing Spam filters have not been able to stop the SMS Spam problem due to frequent drift in spammer’s words, ...

Providing security at all levels within the multiplatform cloud-computing environment is has not been properly solved due to a variety of problems arising from technical and human-based sources. This paper presents an authentication-and-authorization ...

The increasingly ubiquitous two-dimensional barcodes designed by the Denso Wave company, known as the QR code, were originally intended to track millions of parts as they moved about on high-speed assembly lines. Since then, these increasingly ...

Literature in malware proliferation focuses on modeling and analyzing its spread dynamics. Epidemiology models, which are inspired by the characteristics of biological disease spread in human populations, have been used against this threat to analyze ...

To protect the information assets of any organization, management must rely on accurate information security risk management. Management must access the risk to the organizations assets then develop information security strategies to reduce the risks. ...

Commutative re-encryption techniques are important tools for different applications where the encryption and decryption operations are performed in arbitrary order. These techniques also enable one to transfer information securely in a network without ...

Software vulnerabilities are the major cause of cyber security problems. The National Vulnerability Database NVD is a public data source that maintains standardized information about reported software vulnerabilities. Since its inception in 1997, NVD ...

The traditional text-based password has been the default security medium for years; however, the difficulty of memorizing secure strong passwords often leads to insecure practices. A possible alternative solution is graphical authentication, which is ...