Ang Liu¹, Qing Zhang², Shengwei Xu^3,*, Huamin Feng⁴, Xiu-bo Chen⁵, Wen Liu¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.1, pp. 1727-1751, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051233

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network system that connects physical devices through the Internet, allowing them to interact. Nowadays, IoT has become an integral part of our lives, offering convenience and smart functionality. However, the growing number of IoT devices has brought about a corresponding increase in cybersecurity threats, such as device vulnerabilities, data privacy concerns, and network susceptibilities. Integrating blockchain technology with IoT has proven to be a promising approach to enhance IoT security. Nevertheless, the emergence of quantum computing poses a significant challenge to the security of traditional classical cryptography used… More >

Xingxing Zhang¹, Liang Liu^1,*, Yu Fan¹, Qian Zhou²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.4, pp. 969-987, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2024.046615

Abstract System calls are essential interfaces that enable applications to access and utilize the operating system’s services and resources. Attackers frequently exploit application’s vulnerabilities and misuse system calls to execute malicious code, aiming to elevate privileges and so on. Consequently, restricting the misuse of system calls becomes a crucial measure in ensuring system security. It is an effective method known as reducing the attack surface. Existing attack surface reduction techniques construct a global whitelist of system calls for the entire lifetime of the application, which is coarse-grained. In this paper, we propose a Fine-grained Function-level framework… More >

Kaveh Heidary^*

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.6, pp. 153-175, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jai.2024.050563

Abstract This paper provides a detailed mathematical model governing the operation of feedforward neural networks (FFNN) and derives the backpropagation formulation utilized in the training process. Network protection systems must ensure secure access to the Internet, reliability of network services, consistency of applications, safeguarding of stored information, and data integrity while in transit across networks. The paper reports on the application of neural networks (NN) and deep learning (DL) analytics to the detection of network traffic anomalies, including network intrusions, and the timely prevention and mitigation of cyberattacks. Among the most prevalent cyber threats are R2L,… More >

Lin Chen¹, Jiaming Zhu¹, Yuting Xu¹, Huanqin Zheng¹, Shen Su^1,2,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.3, pp. 2373-2395, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.049996

Abstract In the information age, electronic documents (e-documents) have become a popular alternative to paper documents due to their lower costs, higher dissemination rates, and ease of knowledge sharing. However, digital copyright infringements occur frequently due to the ease of copying, which not only infringes on the rights of creators but also weakens their creative enthusiasm. Therefore, it is crucial to establish an e-document sharing system that enforces copyright protection. However, the existing centralized system has outstanding vulnerabilities, and the plagiarism detection algorithm used cannot fully detect the context, semantics, style, and other factors of the… More >

Weijian Song^1,, Xi Li^1,, Peng Chen^1,*, Juan Chen¹, Jianhua Ren², Yunni Xia^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.3, pp. 3001-3016, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.048563

Abstract With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, IoT systems have been widely applied in healthcare, transportation, home, and other fields. However, with the continuous expansion of the scale and increasing complexity of IoT systems, the stability and security issues of IoT systems have become increasingly prominent. Thus, it is crucial to detect anomalies in the collected IoT time series from various sensors. Recently, deep learning models have been leveraged for IoT anomaly detection. However, owing to the challenges associated with data labeling, most IoT anomaly detection methods resort to unsupervised learning techniques.… More >

Huang Zeng, Mingtian Zhang, Tengfei Liu, Anjia Yang^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 5125-5142, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052846

Abstract Federated learning is an important distributed model training technique in Internet of Things (IoT), in which participant selection is a key component that plays a role in improving training efficiency and model accuracy. This module enables a central server to select a subset of participants to perform model training based on data and device information. By doing so, selected participants are rewarded and actively perform model training, while participants that are detrimental to training efficiency and model accuracy are excluded. However, in practice, participants may suspect that the central server may have miscalculated and thus… More >

Jiahui Liu^1,2, Lang Li^1,2,*, Di Li^1,2, Yu Ou^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4641-4657, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051613

Abstract Correlation power analysis (CPA) combined with genetic algorithms (GA) now achieves greater attack efficiency and can recover all subkeys simultaneously. However, two issues in GA-based CPA still need to be addressed: key degeneration and slow evolution within populations. These challenges significantly hinder key recovery efforts. This paper proposes a screening correlation power analysis framework combined with a genetic algorithm, named SFGA-CPA, to address these issues. SFGA-CPA introduces three operations designed to exploit CPA characteristics: propagative operation, constrained crossover, and constrained mutation. Firstly, the propagative operation accelerates population evolution by maximizing the number of correct bytes… More >

Simona-Vasilica Oprea^*, Adela Bâra

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 3827-3853, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051598

Abstract The potential of text analytics is revealed by Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In this paper, we propose an NLP framework that is applied to multiple datasets to detect malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Three categories of features, both ML and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms and a ranking schema are included in the proposed framework. We apply frequency and prediction-based embeddings, such as hash vectorizer, Term Frequency-Inverse Dense Frequency (TF-IDF) and predictors, word to vector-word2vec (continuous bag of words, skip-gram) from Google, to extract features from text. Further, we apply more… More >

Marya Iqbal¹, Yaser Hafeez¹, Nabil Almashfi², Amjad Alsirhani³, Faeiz Alserhani⁴, Sadia Ali¹, Mamoona Humayun^5,*, Muhammad Jamal⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 5031-5049, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.051371

Abstract Embracing software product lines (SPLs) is pivotal in the dynamic landscape of contemporary software development. However, the flexibility and global distribution inherent in modern systems pose significant challenges to managing SPL variability, underscoring the critical importance of robust cybersecurity measures. This paper advocates for leveraging machine learning (ML) to address variability management issues and fortify the security of SPL. In the context of the broader special issue theme on innovative cybersecurity approaches, our proposed ML-based framework offers an interdisciplinary perspective, blending insights from computing, social sciences, and business. Specifically, it employs ML for demand analysis, More >

Bui Van Cong¹, Cho Do Xuan^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 3699-3723, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050019

Abstract The detection of software vulnerabilities written in C and C++ languages takes a lot of attention and interest today. This paper proposes a new framework called DrCSE to improve software vulnerability detection. It uses an intelligent computation technique based on the combination of two methods: Rebalancing data and representation learning to analyze and evaluate the code property graph (CPG) of the source code for detecting abnormal behavior of software vulnerabilities. To do that, DrCSE performs a combination of 3 main processing techniques: (i) building the source code feature profiles, (ii) rebalancing data, and (iii) contrastive… More >