Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in enabling new applications in
various areas, ranging from military, security, medicine, and surveillance to traffic-monitoring …

Remote and largely unattended sensing devices are being deployed rapidly in sensitive
environments, such as healthcare, in the home, and on corporate premises. A major …

Remote mobile and embedded devices are used to deliver increasingly impactful services,
such as medical rehabilitation and assistive technologies. Secure system logging is …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to significantly impact consumer finance,
through greater customer personalisation, more frictionless payments, and novel pricing …

Abstract Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are rapidly emerging as a root-of-trust for
protecting sensitive applications and data using hardware-backed isolated worlds of …

This paper proposes a new privacy-enhancing, context-aware user authentication system,
ConSec, which uses a transformation of general location-sensitive data, such as GPS …

The current challenge for several applications is to guarantee the user's privacy when using
personal data. The broader problem is to transfer and process the data without exposing the …

Relay attacks are passive man-in-the-middle attacks that aim to extend the physical distance
of devices involved in a transaction beyond their operating environment. In the field of smart …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT)–the notion that interconnected everyday objects will
acquire the ability to monitor and act upon their environment–is anticipated to benefit …

This thesis examines the impact of the security and privacy challenges of mobile
applications on software engineering paradigms. As mobile apps become central to daily …