Apps written in JavaScript are an easy target for reverse engineering attacks, e.g. to steal the intellectual property or to create a clone of an app. Unprotected JavaScript apps even contain high level information such as developer comments, if those ...

A wide adoption of obfuscation techniques by Android application developers, and especially malware authors, introduces a high degree of complication into the process of reverse engineering, analysis, and security evaluation of third-party and ...

A honeypot provides information about the new attack and exploitation methods and allows analyzing the adversary's activities during or after exploitation. One way of an adversary to communicate with a server is via secure shell (SSH). SSH provides ...

Recommender systems provide a valuable mechanism to address the information overload problem by reducing a data set to the items that may be interesting for a particular user. While the quality of recommendations has notably improved in the recent years,...

The collection of monitoring data in distributed systems can serve many different purposes, such as system status monitoring, performance evaluation, and optimization. There are many well-established approaches for data collection and visualization in ...

Public transportation systems represent an essential sector of any nation's critical infrastructure. Hence, continuity of their services is deemed important and with a high priority to the nations. Concerns over risks like terrorism, criminal offenses, ...

The protection of assets, including IT resources, intellectual property and business processes, against security attacks has become a challenging task for organizations. From an economic perspective, firms need to minimize the probability of a ...

Virtual machine introspection (VMI) is a technology with many possible applications, such as malware analysis and intrusion detection. However, this technique is resource intensive, as inspecting program behavior includes recording of a high number of ...