—An increasing number of mobile devices, including smartphones, use WLAN for accessing the Internet. Existing WLAN authentication mechanisms are either disruptive, such as presen...
Abstract— Ensuring the security of computers is a nontrivial task, with many techniques used by malicious users to compromise these systems. In recent years a new threat has emer...
Many threats that plague today’s networks (e.g., phishing, botnets, denial of service attacks) are enabled by a complex ecosystem of attack programs commonly called malware. To ...
Although a significant amount of effort has been directed at discovering attacks against anonymity communication networks and developing countermeasures to those attacks, there i...
This paper presents and experimentally evaluates two parallelization strategies for the popular open-source Snort network intrusion detection system (NIDS). Snort identifies intr...