OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers & Security is 61. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	272
Defend against adversarial attacks in malware detection through attack space management	205
VeracOS: An operating system extension for the veracity of files	191
Exploring compiler optimization space for control flow obfuscation	133
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	131
Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor	128
Editorial Board	123
Reading is not believing: A multimodal adversarial attacker for Chinese-NLP model	119
The Security Awareness Adventure: A serious game for security awareness training utilizing a state transition system and a probabilistic model	112
RETRACTED: I recognize you by your steps: Privacy impact of pedometer data	112
Security First, Security by Design, or Security Pragmatism – Strategic Roles of IT Security in Digitalization Projects	111
Investigating machine learning attacks on financial time series models	111
MGA-IDS: Optimal feature subset selection for anomaly detection framework on in-vehicle networks-CAN bus based on genetic algorithm and intrusion detection approach	109
A permission-carrying security policy and static enforcement for information flows in Android programs	108
A lightweight packet forwarding verification in SDN using sketch	103
Enhancing encrypted traffic analysis via source APIs: A robust approach for malicious traffic detection	103
A traffic anomaly detection scheme for non-directional denial of service attacks in software-defined optical network	101
Covert timing channel detection based on isolated binary trees	101
FiPiBox:Development of firewall for IoT networks using P4Pi	101
Wasserstein distance guided feature Tokenizer transformer domain adaptation for network intrusion detection	96
Navigating Cybersecurity Governance: The influence of opportunity structures in socio-technical transitions for small and medium enterprises	95
AttackNet: Enhancing biometric security via tailored convolutional neural network architectures for liveness detection	92
Don’t get stung, cover your ICS in honey: How do honeypots fit within industrial control system security	91
DynamicFuzz: Confidence-based directed greybox fuzzing for programs with unreliable call graphs	91
Improving transferable adversarial attack via feature-momentum	90

Evaluating cyber attacks on central banks – identification of trends in cyber threat landscape	90
GCN-MHSA: A novel malicious traffic detection method based on graph convolutional neural network and multi-head self-attention mechanism	88
Enhancing intrusion detection in containerized services: Assessing machine learning models and an advanced representation for system call data	86
Analysis of human reliability in detecting GPS spoofing on ECDIS in congested waterways under evidential reasoning and HEART approach	86
AIDTF: Adversarial training framework for network intrusion detection	83
An analysis of zero-trust architecture and its cost-effectiveness for organizational security	83
On Detecting and Classifying DGA Botnets and their Families	82
Influencing the security prioritisation of an agile software development project	81
MADONNA: Browser-based malicious domain detection using Optimized Neural Network by leveraging AI and feature analysis	80
PPT: A privacy-preserving global model training protocol for federated learning in P2P networks	78
Multivariate time series anomaly detection with variational autoencoder and spatial–temporal graph network	76
A novel Evil Twin MiTM attack through 802.11v protocol exploitation	76
A typology of cybersecurity behavior among knowledge workers	76
Cybersecurity preparedness of small-to-medium businesses: A Western Australia study with broader implications	76
A bio-inspired optimal feature with convolutional GhostNet based squeeze excited deep-scale capsule network for intrusion detection	74
Cloud computing security: A survey of service-based models	73
Usable and secure? User perception of four authentication methods for mobile banking	73
Learning from cyber security incidents: A systematic review and future research agenda	72
Exploring capacitive swipe gesture for user authentication using a new large dataset	71
A systematic literature review on online assessment security: Current challenges and integrity strategies	71
A large-scale analysis of the effectiveness of publicly reported security patches	70
Privacy-preserving distributed clustering: A fully homomorphic encrypted approach for time series	69
TrojanProbe: Fingerprinting Trojan tunnel implementations by actively probing crafted HTTP requests	68
Detecting DBMS bugs with context-sensitive instantiation and multi-plan execution	68
Multi-probability sampling-based detection of malicious switching nodes in SDN	67
BiTCN-TAEfficientNet malware classification approach based on sequence and RGB fusion	66
Understanding the chief information security officer: Qualifications and responsibilities for cybersecurity leadership	65
Improving transferability of adversarial examples by saliency distribution and data augmentation	65
When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection	65
Multidimensional categorical data collection under shuffled differential privacy	64
Would US citizens accept cybersecurity deresponsibilization? Perhaps not	64
A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Endorsement Process in Hyperledger Fabric	64
NERO: NEural algorithmic reasoning for zeRO-day attack detection in the IoT: A hybrid approach	63
Tamp-X: Attacking explainable natural language classifiers through tampered activations	62
Cross-site scripting detection with two-channel feature fusion embedded in self-attention mechanism	62
KPointer: Keep the code pointers on the stack point to the right code	62
New results on modeling and hybrid control for malware propagation in cyber–physical systems	61
Attack smarter: Attention-driven fine-grained webpage fingerprinting attacks	61
You are your friends: Detecting malware via guilt-by-association and exempt-by-reputation	61
A multi-type vulnerability detection framework with parallel perspective fusion and hierarchical feature enhancement	61