This book provides solid, state-of-the-art contributions from both scientists and practitioners working on botnet detection and analysis, including botnet economics. It presents original theoretical and empirical chapters dealing with both offensive and defensive aspects in this field. Chapters address fundamental theory, current trends and techniques for evading detection, as well as practical experiences concerning detection and defensive strategies for the botnet ecosystem, and include surveys, simulations, practical results, and case studies.

This book gathers and analyzes the latest attacks, solutions, and trends in mobile networks. Its broad scope covers attacks and solutions related to mobile networks, mobile phone security, and wireless security. It examines the previous and emerging attacks and solutions in the mobile networking worlds, as well as other pertinent security issues. The many attack samples present the severity of this problem, while the delivered methodologies and countermeasures show how to build a truly secure mobile computing environment.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite workshops held around the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2023, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 2023.The 34 full papers and 13 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. They stem from the following workshops: ·  1st ACNS Workshop on Automated Methods and Data-driven Techniques in Symmetric-key Cryptanalysis (ADSC 2023) ·        5th ACNS Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain Security (AIBlock 2023) ·        4th ACNS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (AIHWS 2023) ·        5th ACNS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial IoT Security (AIoTS 2023) ·        3rd ACNS Workshop on Critical Infrastructure and Manufacturing System Security (CIMSS 2023) ·        5th ACNS Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy (Cloud S&P 2023) ·        4th ACNS Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementation (SCI 2023) ·        4th ACNS Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies (SecMT 2023) ·        5th ACNS Workshop on Security in Machine Learning and its Applications (SiMLA 2023)

This book provides solid, state-of-the-art contributions from both scientists and practitioners working on botnet detection and analysis, including botnet economics. It presents original theoretical and empirical chapters dealing with both offensive and defensive aspects in this field. Chapters address fundamental theory, current trends and techniques for evading detection, as well as practical experiences concerning detection and defensive strategies for the botnet ecosystem, and include surveys, simulations, practical results, and case studies.

This book highlights new advances in biometrics using deep learning toward deeper and wider background, deeming it "Deep Biometrics". The book aims to highlight recent developments in biometrics using semi-supervised and unsupervised methods such as Deep Neural Networks, Deep Stacked Autoencoder, Convolutional Neural Networks, Generative Adversary Networks, and so on. The contributors demonstrate the power of deep learning techniques in the emerging new areas such as privacy and security issues, cancellable biometrics, soft biometrics, smart cities, big biometric data, biometric banking, medical biometrics, healthcare biometrics, and biometric genetics, etc. The goal of this volume is to summarize the recent advances in using Deep Learning in the area of biometric security and privacy toward deeper and wider applications. Highlights the impact of deep learning over the field of biometrics in a wide area; Exploits the deeper and wider background of biometrics, such as privacy versus security, biometric big data, biometric genetics, and biometric diagnosis, etc.; Introduces new biometric applications such as biometric banking, internet of things, cloud computing, and medical biometrics.

This book highlights new advances in biometrics using deep learning toward deeper and wider background, deeming it "Deep Biometrics". The book aims to highlight recent developments in biometrics using semi-supervised and unsupervised methods such as Deep Neural Networks, Deep Stacked Autoencoder, Convolutional Neural Networks, Generative Adversary Networks, and so on. The contributors demonstrate the power of deep learning techniques in the emerging new areas such as privacy and security issues, cancellable biometrics, soft biometrics, smart cities, big biometric data, biometric banking, medical biometrics, healthcare biometrics, and biometric genetics, etc. The goal of this volume is to summarize the recent advances in using Deep Learning in the area of biometric security and privacy toward deeper and wider applications. Highlights the impact of deep learning over the field of biometrics in a wide area; Exploits the deeper and wider background of biometrics, such as privacy versus security, biometric big data, biometric genetics, and biometric diagnosis, etc.; Introduces new biometric applications such as biometric banking, internet of things, cloud computing, and medical biometrics.

This book gathers and analyzes the latest attacks, solutions, and trends in mobile networks. Its broad scope covers attacks and solutions related to mobile networks, mobile phone security, and wireless security. It examines the previous and emerging attacks and solutions in the mobile networking worlds, as well as other pertinent security issues. The many attack samples present the severity of this problem, while the delivered methodologies and countermeasures show how to build a truly secure mobile computing environment.

The two-volume set CCIS 1869 and 1870 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2023, held in Hefei, China, in July 2023. The 83 full papers and 1 short paper presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Neural network (NN) theory, NN-based control systems, neuro-system integration and engineering applications; Machine learning and deep learning for data mining and data-driven applications; Computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications; Deep learning-driven pattern recognition, computer vision and its industrial applications; Natural language processing, knowledge graphs, recommender systems, and their applications; Neural computing-based fault diagnosis and forecasting, prognostic management, and cyber-physical system security; Sequence learning for spreading dynamics, forecasting, and intelligent techniques against epidemic spreading (2); Applications of Data Mining, Machine Learning and Neural Computing in Language Studies; Computational intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control, and Their Engineering Applications; and Other Neural computing-related topics.

The two-volume set CCIS 1869 and 1870 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Neural Computing for Advanced Applications, NCAA 2023, held in Hefei, China, in July 2023. The 83 full papers and 1 short paper presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 211 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: Neural network (NN) theory, NN-based control systems, neuro-system integration and engineering applications; Machine learning and deep learning for data mining and data-driven applications; Computational intelligence, nature-inspired optimizers, and their engineering applications; Deep learning-driven pattern recognition, computer vision and its industrial applications; Natural language processing, knowledge graphs, recommender systems, and their applications; Neural computing-based fault diagnosis and forecasting, prognostic management, and cyber-physical system security; Sequence learning for spreading dynamics, forecasting, and intelligent techniques against epidemic spreading (2); Applications of Data Mining, Machine Learning and Neural Computing in Language Studies; Computational intelligent Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control, and Their Engineering Applications; and Other Neural computing-related topics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th IFIP TC 11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2022, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. The 29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers present novel research on theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in information processing systems. They are organized in topical sections on privacy models and preferences; network security and IDS; network security and privacy; forensics; trust and PETs; crypto-based solutions; usable security; blockchain; mobile security and privacy; PETs and crypto; and vulnerabilities.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Blockchain Technology and Emerging Technologies, BlockTEA 2022, held in Virtual Event, during November 21-22, 2022.  The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: answer set programming; functional programming; Smart contract, Privacy protection, NFT and Machine learning

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2022, which was held in October 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 33 full papers and 10 short papers, presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers cover many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2022, held in conjunction with ESORICS 2022, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 30, 2022, in hybrid mode.The 7 full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. This workshop focuses on IoT attacks and defenses and discusses either practical or theoretical solutions to identify IoT vulnerabilities and IoT security mechanisms.

The three volume set LNCS 13554, 13555, 13556 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2022, which took place in September 2022. The conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a hybrid mode.The 104 full papers and 6 poster papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 562 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Blockchain security; privacy; crypto; attacks; sidechannels; Part II: Anonymity; cloud security; access control; authentication; digital signatures; IoT security; applications; Part III: Formal analysis; Web security; hardware security; multiparty computation; ML techniques; cyber-physical systems security; network and software security; posters.

The three volume set LNCS 13554, 13555, 13556 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2022, which took place in September 2022. The conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a hybrid mode.The 104 full papers and 6 poster papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 562 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Blockchain security; privacy; crypto; attacks; sidechannels; Part II: Anonymity; cloud security; access control; authentication; digital signatures; IoT security; applications; Part III: Formal analysis; Web security; hardware security; multiparty computation; ML techniques; cyber-physical systems security; network and software security; posters.

The three volume set LNCS 13554, 13555, 13556 constitutes the proceedings of the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2022, which took place in September 2022. The conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a hybrid mode.The 104 full papers and 6 poster papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 562 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Blockchain security; privacy; crypto; attacks; sidechannels; Part II: Anonymity; cloud security; access control; authentication; digital signatures; IoT security; applications; Part III: Formal analysis; Web security; hardware security; multiparty computation; ML techniques; cyber-physical systems security; network and software security; posters.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th IFIP TC 11 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2022, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in June 2022. The 29 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers present novel research on theoretical and practical aspects of security and privacy protection in information processing systems. They are organized in topical sections on privacy models and preferences; network security and IDS; network security and privacy; forensics; trust and PETs; crypto-based solutions; usable security; blockchain; mobile security and privacy; PETs and crypto; and vulnerabilities.

This book features selected papers from the 7th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2021), organized by Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India, during March 2021. It covers recent advances in the field of mathematics, statistics, and scientific computing. The book presents innovative work by leading academics, researchers, and experts from industry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six International Workshops that were held in conjunction with the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2021, which took place during October 4-6, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in Darmstadt, Germany, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 32 papers included in these proceedings stem from the following workshops: the 7th Workshop on the Security of Industrial Control Systems and of Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2021, which accepted 7 papers from 16 submissions; the 5th International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2021, which accepted 5 papers from 8 submissions; the 4th International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2021, which accepted 6 full and 1 short paper out of 15 submissions; the 3rd Workshop on Security, Privacy, Organizations, and Systems Engineering, SPOSE 2021, which accepted 5 full and 1 short paper out of 13 submissions. the 2nd Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection, CPS4CIP 2021, which accepted 3 full and 1 short paper out of 6 submissions; and the 1st International Workshop on Cyber Defence Technologies and Secure Communications at the Network Edge, CDT & SECOMANE 2021, which accepted 3 papers out of 7 submissions. The following papers are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com:Why IT Security Needs Therapy by Uta Menges, Jonas Hielscher, Annalina Buckmann, Annette Kluge, M. Angela Sasse, and Imogen Verret Transferring Update Behavior from Smartphones to Smart Consumer Devices by Matthias Fassl, Michaela Neumayr, Oliver Schedler, and Katharina Krombholz Organisational Contexts of Energy Cybersecurity by Tania Wallis, Greig Paul, and James Irvine SMILE - Smart eMaIl Link domain Extractor by Mattia Mossano, Benjamin Berens, Philip Heller, Christopher Beckmann, Lukas Aldag, Peter Mayer, and Melanie Volkamer A Semantic Model for Embracing Privacy as Contextual Integrity in the Internet of Things by Salatiel Ezennaya-Gomez, Claus Vielhauer, and Jana Dittmann Data Protection Impact Assessments in Practice - Experiences from Case Studies by Michael Friedewald, Ina Schiering, Nicholas Martin, and Dara Hallinan

This volume constitutes selected papers presented at the Second International Symposium on Emerging Information Security and Applications, EISA 2021, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November 2021.* The 10 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 36 submissions. They present a discussion on the emerging techniques, theories and applications to enhance information and application security in practice. *Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.

The LNCS 13172 constitute the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2021, held online, in November 2021.The 9 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The conference focuses on Cyberspace Safety and Security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability issues of cyberspace.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2021, held in Nanjing, China, in December 2021. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The conference focus on new information security technologies, including their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2021, held virtually, in November 2021. The 21 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers categorized into the following topical subheadings: cryptology; web and OS security; network security; detection of malware, attacks and vulnerabilities; and machine learning for security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments, SPNCE 2020, held in August 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 31 full papers were selected from 63 submissions and are grouped into topics on network security; system security; machine learning; authentication and access control; cloud security; cryptography; applied cryptography.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2020, the Second International Workshop on Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering, SECPRE 2020, and the Third International Workshop on Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things, ADIoT 2020, held in Guildford, UK, in September 2020 in conjunction with the 25th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually The CyberICPS Workshop received 21 submissions from which 5 full papers were selected for presentation. They cover topics related to threats, vulnerabilities and risks that cyber-physical systems and industrial control systems face; cyberattacks that may be launched against such systems; and ways of detecting and responding to such attacks. From the SECPRE Workshop 4 full papers out of 7 submissions are included. The selected papers deal with aspects of security and privacy requirements assurance and evaluation; and security requirements elicitation and modelling and to GDPR compliance. From the ADIoT Workshop 2 full papers and 2 short papers out of 12 submissions are included. The papers focus on IoT attacks and defenses and discuss either practical or theoretical solutions to identify IoT vulnerabilities and IoT security mechanisms.