Modern software development is increasingly dependent on components, libraries, and frameworks coming from third-party vendors or open-source suppliers and made available through a number of platforms (or forges). This way of writing software puts an ...

This research developed and tested machine learning models to predict significant credit card fraud in corporate systems using Sarbanes‐Oxley (SOX) reports, news reports of breaches and Fama‐French risk factors (FF). Exploratory analysis found that ...

The purpose of this paper is to present our proposal to use blockchain technology to create a secure, efficient, and smart voting system in the USA. The first section of this paper presents the current equipment and technology used in the current voting ...

The current generation, adults and children of all ages, have come to know and love the smartphone. Everywhere you look, a majority of people will have a smartphone in hand. The entirety of one's life is on his or her device - contacts, pictures, ...

An area covered by a wireless sensor network is protected, or covered, by a sensor barrier if there exists a subset of sensors that divide the area into two regions, such that no intruder can move from one region into the other without being detected. ...

Emerging trends in cyber system security breaches, including those in critical infrastructures involving cloud systems, such as in applications of military, homeland security, finance, utilities and transportation systems, have shown that attackers have ...

The security of computer networks connected to the internet is an important, vital and hotly contested real-world issue. Once the computer networks get connected to the internet, the number of attacks, their strength and intensity grow exponentially. ...

Many storage security breaches have recently been reported in the mass media as the direct result of new breach disclosure state laws across the United States (unfortunately, not internationally). In this paper, we provide an empirical analysis of ...

Information security has become a hot-button issue for businesses of all sizes. And while these businesses tend to give the topic a lot of lip service, a look in the newspapers will show that even substantial enterprises aren't immune to security ...

Internet connected organizations often employ an Internet firewall to mitigate risks of system penetration, data theft, data destruction, and other security breaches. Conventional Internet firewalls, however, impose an overly simple inside vs outside ...

Abstract: Bugs in network application programs can be exploited to compromise the system on which the application is running. When running these applications in an unsafe environment such as the Internet, the security concerns raised are a significant ...

Changes in computer usage have significantly changed the so-called computer security, network security and information security problems. The changes are largely due to the rapid proliferation and interconnection of computers and the associated ...

A description is given of the relaxation lattice method, a new approach to specifyinggraceful degradation for a large class of programs. A relaxation lattice is a lattice ofspecifications parameterized by a set of constraints, where the stronger the set ...