Security assessment of a system is a difficult problem. Most of the current efforts in security
assessment involve searching for known vulnerabilities. Finding unknown vulnerabilities still …

Built on top of UDP, the recently standardized QUIC protocol primarily aims to gradually
replace the TCP plus TLS plus HTTP/2 model. For instance, HTTP/3 is designed to exploit …

Nowadays, the industrial sector is being challenged by several cybersecurity concerns.
Direct attacks by malicious persons and (or) software form part of the severe jeopardies of …

Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for
protecting private networks. An error in a firewall policy either creates security holes that will …

A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the
outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. The …

Privacy and security concerns can prevent sharing of data, derailing data mining projects.
Distributed knowledge discovery, if done correctly, can alleviate this problem. In this paper …

Network firewalls act as the first line of defense against unwanted and malicious traffic
targeting Internet servers. Predicting the overall firewall performance is crucial to network …

In this paper, we report a newly discovered" off-path TCP sequence number inference"
attack enabled by firewall middle boxes. It allows an off-path (ie, not man-in-the-middle) …

All the higher order ANNs (HONNs) including functional link ANN (FLANN) are sensitive to
random initialization of weight and rely on the learning algorithms adopted. Although a …

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is a widely used and well-established
standard for classifying the severity of security vulnerabilities. For instance, all vulnerabilities …