Economic incentives encourage malware authors to constantly develop new, increasingly
complex malware to steal sensitive data or blackmail individuals and companies into paying …

Several methods have been devised by researchers to facilitate malware analysis and one
of them is through malware visualization. Malware visualization is a field that focuses on …

File type identification (FTI) has become a major discipline for anti-virus developers, firewall
designers and for forensic cybercrime investigators. Over the past few years, research has …

The prevalence of the Internet and cloud-based applications, alongside the technological
evolution of smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, has resulted in users relying upon …

Data stealing botnets pose a great risk to the security of networks and the privacy of their
users. Most of these botnets use the web as a medium for communication, making them …

Previous research has shown that byte-level analysis of network traffic can be useful for
network intrusion detection and traffic analysis. Such an approach does not require any …

File fragment classification is an essential problem in digital forensics. Although several
attempts had been made to solve this challenging problem, a general solution has not been …

The number of unique malware variants released each year is on the rise. Researchers may
often need to use manual static and dynamic analysis to study new malware samples …

Abstract File-Type Identification (FTI) is one of the essential functions that can be performed
by examining the data blocks' magic numbers. However, this examination leads to a …

Insider misuse has become a significant issue for organisations. Traditional information
security has focussed upon threats from the outside rather than employees. A wide range of …