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Journal of Information Security is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in information security. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of informa…
Lance Cleghorn
The defense in depth methodology was popularized in the early 2000’ s amid growing concerns for information security; this paper will address the shortcomings of early implementations. In the last two years, many supporters of the defense in depth security me…
Andrew Mwaura Kahonge, William Okello-Odongo, Evans K. Miriti, Elisha Abade
The World Wide Web has been an environment with many security threats and lots of reported cases of security breaches. Various tools and techniques have been applied in trying to curb this problem, however new attacks continue to plague the Internet. We discu…
Norziana Jamil, Ramlan Mahmod, Muhammad Reza Z’aba, Nur Izura Udzir, Zuriati Ahmad Zukarnain
Cryptographic hash functions are built up from individual components, namely pre-processing, step transformation, and final processing. Some of the hash functions, such as SHA-256 and STITCH-256, employ non-linear message expan sion in their pre-processing st…
Dmitry Silnov
In this paper, a signature-based selective mechanism in detecting virus signatures in executable files was found and investigated. A pattern under which the Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus software not detecting a virus signature deliberately placed i…
Khalid Benlhachmi, Mohammed Benattou
This paper presents an approach for extending the constraint model defined for conformity testing of a given method of class to its overriding method in subclass using inheritance principle. The first objective of the proposed work is to find the relationship…
Abou-el-ela Abdou Hussien, Nermin Hamza, Hesham A. Hefny
Data mining is the extraction of vast interesting patterns or knowledge from huge amount of data. The initial idea of privacy - preserving data mining PPDM was to extend traditional data mining techniques to work with the data modified to mask sensitive infor…
Maria Chroni, Angelos Fylakis, Stavros D. Nikolopoulos
In this work we propose efficient codec algorithms for watermarking images that are intended for uploading on the web under intellectual property protection. Headed to this direction, we recently suggested a way in which an integer number w which being transf…
Abdul Kadar Muhammad Masum, Faruk Bhuiyan, Kazi Golam Azam
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an emerging technology, radio wave communication between a microchip and an electronic reader, consisting of data gathering, distribution, and management systems that has the ability to identify or scan information for…
Patricia Ghann, Changda Wang, Conghua Zhou
Access and usage control is a major challenge in information and computer security in a distributed network connected environment. Many models have been proposed such as traditional access control and UCONABC. Though these models have achieved their objective…
Rita M. Barrios
When considering Intrusion Detection and the Insider Threat, most researchers tend to focus on the network architecture rather than the database which is the primary target of data theft. It is understood that the network level is adequate for many intrusions…
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