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Data Tamper Detection from NoSQL Database in Forensic Environment

Abstract: The growth of service sector is increasing the usage of digital applications worldwide. These digital applications are making use of database to store the sensitive and secret information. As the database has distributed over the internet, cybercrime attackers may tamper the database to attack on such sensitive and confidential information. In such scenario, maintaining the integrity of database is a big challenge. Database tampering will change the database state by any data manipulation operation like insert, update or delete. Tamper detection techniques are useful for the detection of such data tampering which play an important role in database forensic investigation process. Use of NoSQL database has been attracted by big data requirements. Previous research work has limited to tamper detection in relational database and very less work has been found in NoSQL database. So there is a need to propose a mechanism to detect the tampering of NoSQL database systems. Whereas this article proposes an idea of tamper detection in NoSQL database such as MongoDB and Cassandra, which are widely used document-oriented and column-based NoSQL database respectively. This research work has proposed tamper detection technique which works in forensic environment to give more relevant outcome on data tampering and distinguish between suspicious and genuine tampering.

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Database Security Enhancement by Eliminating the Redundant and Incorrect Spelled Data Entries

Database is used for storing the data in an easy and efficient format. In recent days large size of data has been generated through number of applications and same has been stored in the database. Considering the importance of data in every sector of digitized world, it is foremost important to secure the data. Hence, database security has been given a prime importance in every organization. Redundant data entries may stop the functioning of the database.

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What exactly is Security Assurance?

If you are a regular reader of Cybersecurity Magazine, you may have come across Security Assurance before. In this article, we take a look at what is behind this abstract term and why it is so important.
Security assurance is an umbrella term for several processes aimed at ensuring individual system components can adequately protect themselves from attacks. Doing so requires not just a one-time effort, but actually spans the complete system lifecycle. After all, what is considered an acceptable security posture may change over time depending on, for example, newly emerging threats or changes to how the system itself is utilized.

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A Secure Trust-aware Cross-layer Routing Protocol for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

VANETs currently represent one of the most prominent solutions that aim to reduce the number of road accident victims and congestion problems while improving the quality of driving. VANETs form a very dynamic open network in which vehicles exchange information and warnings about road situations and other traffic information through several routing protocols, without any intermediate control.

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A Boosted Performances of NTRUencrypt Post-Quantum Cryptosystem

Abstract: The bottleneck of all cryptosystems is the difficulty of the computational complexity of the polynomials multiplication, vectors multiplication, etc. Thus most of them use some algorithms to reduce the complexity of the multiplication like NTT, Montgomery, CRT, and Karatsuba algorithms, etc. We contribute by creating a new release of NTRUencrypt1024 with great improvement, by using our own polynomials multiplication algorithm operate in the ring of the form Rq=Zq[X]/(XN+1), combined to Montgomery algorithm rather than using the NTT algorithm as used by the original version.

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Evaluating and Improving a Content Delivery Network (CDN) Workflow using Stochastic Modelling

Abstract: Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are the backbone of Internet. A lot of research has been done to make CDNs more reliable. Despite that, the world has suffered from CDN inefficiencies quite a few times, not just due to external hacking attempts but due to internal failures as well. In this research work the authors have analyzed the performance of a content delivery network through various reliability measures.

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TPA Auditing to Enhance the Privacy and Security in Cloud Systems

Over the last decade, many enterprises around the world migrating from traditional infrastructure to cloud resources in order to cut down operational and capital expenditure. With cloud computing, huge amount of data transactions is communicated between cloud consumers and cloud service providers. However, this cloud computing enables surplus security challenges associated to unauthorized access and data breaches. We proposed in this paper a trusted third-party auditor (TPA) model which uses lightweight cryptographic system and lightweight hashing technique to ensure data security and data integrity to audit the cloud users outsourced data from cloud service providers.

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DDOS Detection on Internet of Things Using Unsupervised Algorithms

The increase in the deployment of IOT networks has improved productivity of humans and organisations. However, IOT networks are increasingly becoming platforms for launching DDOS attacks due to inherent weaker security and resource-constrained nature of IOT devices. This paper focusses on detecting DDOS attack in IOT networks by classifying incoming network packets on the transport layer as either “Suspicious” or “Benign” using unsupervised machine learning algorithms.

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A Lightweight Security Scheme (LSS) for Wireless Node Communication for Border Surveillance System

The physical breach across the borders is a very common issue these days among nations sharing boundaries. It is controlled via proper border surveillance system. The border surveillance system is trivially a physical border intrusion detection system in which CCTV cameras are used traditionally to observe manually the presence of some intruder. Instead, we utilize the raspberry PI controller board based wireless sensor nodes fitted with raspberry PI camera for identifying the intruder.

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