OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers & Security is 65. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	307
VeracOS: An operating system extension for the veracity of files	215
Editorial Board	158
Reading is not believing: A multimodal adversarial attacker for Chinese-NLP model	155
DynamicFuzz: Confidence-based directed greybox fuzzing for programs with unreliable call graphs	141
Evaluating cyber attacks on central banks – identification of trends in cyber threat landscape	134
FiPiBox:Development of firewall for IoT networks using P4Pi	133
Cybersecurity preparedness of small-to-medium businesses: A Western Australia study with broader implications	132
Influencing the security prioritisation of an agile software development project	128
Defend against adversarial attacks in malware detection through attack space management	126
GCN-MHSA: A novel malicious traffic detection method based on graph convolutional neural network and multi-head self-attention mechanism	125
An analysis of zero-trust architecture and its cost-effectiveness for organizational security	123
RETRACTED: I recognize you by your steps: Privacy impact of pedometer data	121
PPT: A privacy-preserving global model training protocol for federated learning in P2P networks	120
A permission-carrying security policy and static enforcement for information flows in Android programs	120
Wasserstein distance guided feature Tokenizer transformer domain adaptation for network intrusion detection	115
Investigating machine learning attacks on financial time series models	114
BotPro: Data-driven tracking & profiling of IoT botnets in the wild	110
The Reverse File System: Towards open cost-effective secure WORM storage devices for logging	109
The Security Awareness Adventure: A serious game for security awareness training utilizing a state transition system and a probabilistic model	107
Analysis of human reliability in detecting GPS spoofing on ECDIS in congested waterways under evidential reasoning and HEART approach	107
Enhancing intrusion detection in containerized services: Assessing machine learning models and an advanced representation for system call data	102
Navigating Cybersecurity Governance: The influence of opportunity structures in socio-technical transitions for small and medium enterprises	100
AttackNet: Enhancing biometric security via tailored convolutional neural network architectures for liveness detection	100
MADONNA: Browser-based malicious domain detection using Optimized Neural Network by leveraging AI and feature analysis	97

A lightweight packet forwarding verification in SDN using sketch	93
Improving transferable adversarial attack via feature-momentum	93
Cybersecurity optimization in supply chains under propagated cyberattacks	93
Security First, Security by Design, or Security Pragmatism – Strategic Roles of IT Security in Digitalization Projects	92
Exploring compiler optimization space for control flow obfuscation	92
Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor	92
A novel Evil Twin MiTM attack through 802.11v protocol exploitation	89
Covert timing channel detection based on isolated binary trees	89
Enhancing encrypted traffic analysis via source APIs: A robust approach for malicious traffic detection	88
A typology of cybersecurity behavior among knowledge workers	87
A bio-inspired optimal feature with convolutional GhostNet based squeeze excited deep-scale capsule network for intrusion detection	87
Learning from cyber security incidents: A systematic review and future research agenda	86
Multivariate time series anomaly detection with variational autoencoder and spatial–temporal graph network	82
MGA-IDS: Optimal feature subset selection for anomaly detection framework on in-vehicle networks-CAN bus based on genetic algorithm and intrusion detection approach	82
AIDTF: Adversarial training framework for network intrusion detection	82
TrojanProbe: Fingerprinting Trojan tunnel implementations by actively probing crafted HTTP requests	79
Exploring capacitive swipe gesture for user authentication using a new large dataset	79
An anomaly detection model for in-vehicle networks based on lightweight convolution with spectral residuals	78
A multi-type vulnerability detection framework with parallel perspective fusion and hierarchical feature enhancement	77
New results on modeling and hybrid control for malware propagation in cyber–physical systems	77
IDPFilter: Mitigating interdependent privacy issues in third-party apps	75
Beyond the sandbox: Leveraging symbolic execution for evasive malware classification	75
Multidimensional categorical data collection under shuffled differential privacy	75
Multi-probability sampling-based detection of malicious switching nodes in SDN	73
Detecting DBMS bugs with context-sensitive instantiation and multi-plan execution	73
The Practice of Cyber-Threat Intelligence in Organizations: A Socio-Technical Case Study of a Mature Financial Organization	72
Web of shadows: Investigating malware abuse of internet services	72
The meta attack language - a formal description	71
Understanding the chief information security officer: Qualifications and responsibilities for cybersecurity leadership	70
NERO: NEural algorithmic reasoning for zeRO-day attack detection in the IoT: A hybrid approach	69
Cognitively reconfigurable mimic-based heterogeneous password recovery system	69
PVFL: Verifiable federated learning and prediction with privacy-preserving	69
Examining the inconsistent effect of privacy control on privacy concerns in e-commerce services: The moderating role of privacy experience and risk propensity	67
Insecure by design? A human-centric security perspective on AI-assisted software development	67
Comparative evaluation of recent universal adversarial perturbations in image classification	67
KPointer: Keep the code pointers on the stack point to the right code	66
Assessing information security culture: A mixed-methods approach to navigating challenges in international corporate IT departments	66
Would US citizens accept cybersecurity deresponsibilization? Perhaps not	65
A large-scale analysis of the effectiveness of publicly reported security patches	65
Forecasting cyber security threats landscape and associated technical trends in telehealth using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT)	65