Computers & Security

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	348
HyperGo: Probability-based directed hybrid fuzzing	240
Navigating Cybersecurity Governance: The influence of opportunity structures in socio-technical transitions for small and medium enterprises	184
Multivariate time series anomaly detection with variational autoencoder and spatial–temporal graph network	137
Towards a cybersecurity culture-behaviour framework: A rapid evidence review	130
Detecting interest flooding attacks in NDN: A probability-based event-driven approach	120
E-WebGuard: Enhanced neural architectures for precision web attack detection	120
SecureQwen: Leveraging LLMs for vulnerability detection in python codebases	116
PDSMV3-DCRNN: A novel ensemble deep learning framework for enhancing phishing detection and URL extraction	116
Thread-sensitive fuzzing for concurrency bug detection	111
Zero day ransomware detection with Pulse: Function classification with Transformer models and assembly language	108
An innovative practical roadmap for optimal control strategies in malware propagation through the integration of RL with MPC	106
RAF-AG: Report analysis framework for attack path generation	101
Enhancing data integrity in opportunistic mobile social network: Leveraging Berkle Tree and secure data routing against attacks	99
A hybrid scoring system for prioritization of software vulnerabilities	86
Detect malicious websites by building a neural network to capture global and local features of websites	84
LEGO: A hybrid toolkit for efficient 2PC-based privacy-preserving machine learning	83
Container security: Precaution levels, mitigation strategies, and research perspectives	83
A principlist framework for cybersecurity ethics	81
A model-based approach for vulnerability analysis of IoT security protocols: The Z-Wave case study	80
Countering ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks using a game-theoretic approach	78
Off-policy actor-critic deep reinforcement learning methods for alert prioritization in intrusion detection systems	76
Using alternate reality games to find a needle in a haystack: An approach for testing insider threat detection methods	75
Network-based multidimensional moving target defense against false data injection attack in power system	74
Fault-tolerant security-efficiency combined authentication scheme for manned-unmanned teaming	73

MAG-PUFs: Authenticating IoT devices via electromagnetic physical unclonable functions and deep learning	71
The mediating role of security anxiety in internet threat avoidance behavior	66
Optimism amid risk: How non-IT employees’ beliefs affect cybersecurity behavior	65
Cybersecurity communities of practice: Strategies for creating gateways to participation	65
COVER: Enhancing virtualization obfuscation through dynamic scheduling using flash controller-based secure module	61
FUZZOLIC: Mixing fuzzing and concolic execution	59
HAformer: Semantic fusion of hex machine code and assembly code for cross-architecture binary vulnerability detection	59
Automated machine learning for deep learning based malware detection	59
AntiViruses under the microscope: A hands-on perspective	58
Machine learning-based early detection of IoT botnets using network-edge traffic	58
Wasmati: An efficient static vulnerability scanner for WebAssembly	57
Evaluation of Asian Countries using Data Center Security Index: A Spherical Fuzzy AHP-based EDAS Approach	56
PDHF: Effective phishing detection model combining optimal artificial and automatic deep features	55
Reading is not believing: A multimodal adversarial attacker for Chinese-NLP model	51
IoTSecSim: A framework for modelling and simulation of security in Internet of things	51
A comparative evaluation of behavioral security motives: Protection, intrinsic, and identity motivations	50
Defend against adversarial attacks in malware detection through attack space management	50
AIS-NIDS: An intelligent and self-sustaining network intrusion detection system	49
Complex yet attainable? An interdisciplinary approach to designing better cyber range exercises	49
Fuzzing JavaScript engines with a syntax-aware neural program model	49
FDT: Improving the transferability of adversarial examples with frequency domain transformation	48
A novel biometric authentication scheme with privacy protection based on SVM and ZKP	47
Adaptive and maladaptive factors behind password manager use: A hope-extended protection motivation perspective	47
Reducing fraud in organizations through information security policy compliance: An information security controls perspective	47
A lightweight packet forwarding verification in SDN using sketch	47
Detecting abnormal logins by discovering anomalous links via graph transformers	46
An Android Malware Detection and Classification Approach Based on Contrastive Lerning	46
A novel dual cloud server privacy-preserving scheme in spatial crowdsourcing	46
Lightweight Sybil Attack Detection in IoT based on Bloom Filter and Physical Unclonable Function	45
An empirical analysis of the information security culture key factors framework	45
Security and privacy problems in voice assistant applications: A survey	45
AttackNet: Enhancing biometric security via tailored convolutional neural network architectures for liveness detection	44
A longitudinal study on improving employee information protective knowledge and behaviors	44
Correlated differential privacy based logistic regression for supplier data protection	43
A privacy preservation method for multiple-source unstructured data in online social networks	43
MONDEO-Tactics5G: Multistage botnet detection and tactics for 5G/6G networks	43
Empirically evaluating the effect of security precautions on cyber incidents	43
Cross-domain vulnerability detection using graph embedding and domain adaptation	43
A traffic anomaly detection scheme for non-directional denial of service attacks in software-defined optical network	42
Efficient handover protocol for 5G and beyond networks	42
A security awareness and competency evaluation in the energy sector	41
An efficient approach for taint analysis of android applications	41
Universal location referencing and homomorphic evaluation of geospatial query	40
FineFool: A novel DNN object contour attack on image recognition based on the attention perturbation adversarial technique	40
“Get a red-hot poker and open up my eyes, it's so boring”1: Employee perceptions of cybersecurity training	40
Your Behaviors Reveal What You Need: A Practical Scheme Based on User Behaviors for Personalized Security Nudges	39
Balancing software and training requirements for information security	39
Detection of malicious PE files using synthesized DNA artifacts	39
SABDTM: Security-first architecture-based dynamic trusted measurement scheme for operating system of the virtual computing node	39
Editorial Board	38

FedSIGN: A sign-based federated learning framework with privacy and robustness guarantees	38
PhishHunter: Detecting camouflaged IDN-based phishing attacks via Siamese neural network	38
Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor	38
Editorial Board	37
Towards efficient Secure Boolean Range Query over encrypted spatial data	37
A novel Evil Twin MiTM attack through 802.11v protocol exploitation	37
GAMBD: Generating adversarial malware against MalConv	37
Editorial Board	36
Single-board device individual authentication based on hardware performance and autoencoder transformer models	36
Threat classification model for security information event management focusing on model efficiency	36
Observational equivalence and security games: Enhancing the formal analysis of security protocols	36
Editorial Board	36
Beyond robustness: Resilience verification of tree-based classifiers	36
FACILE: A capsule network with fewer capsules and richer hierarchical information for malware image classification	36
Editorial Board	35
Transferable adversarial examples can efficiently fool topic models	35
Privacy-preserving correlation of cross-organizational cyber threat intelligence with private graph intersections	35
Behavioral embedding for continuous user verification in global settings	35
Web-tracking compliance: websites’ level of confidence in the use of information-gathering technologies	35
Distance-based linkage of personal microbiome records for identification and its privacy implications	34
Intrusion detection method based on improved social network search algorithm	34
The cybersecurity risk estimation engine: A tool for possibility based risk analysis	34
Design and implementation of an efficient container tag dynamic taint analysis	34
A PUF-based secure wake-up scheme for Internet of Things	33
Three-classification face manipulation detection using attention-based feature decomposition	33
An application specific dynamic behaviour model using function-call sequence and memory access-graph for execution integrity verification	32
DNS tunnelling detection by fusing encoding feature and behavioral feature	32
Editorial Board	32
CLTracer: A Cross-Ledger Tracing framework based on address relationships	32
Cyber-physical attack graphs (CPAGs): Composable and scalable attack graphs for cyber-physical systems	32
SecChecker: Inspecting the security implementation of 5G Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) mobile devices	32
Balancing anonymity and resilience in anonymous communication networks	32
Stability analysis and optimal control of worm propagation model with saturated incidence rate	31
Editorial Board	31
A personalized trajectory privacy protection method	31
A Two-Step TLS-Based Browser fingerprinting approach using combinatorial sequences	30
Editorial Board	30
An approach for predicting multiple-type overflow vulnerabilities based on combination features and a time series neural network algorithm	30
Dynamic face authentication systems: Deep learning verification for camera close-Up and head rotation paradigms	30
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	30
A permission-carrying security policy and static enforcement for information flows in Android programs	30
SCFL: Mitigating backdoor attacks in federated learning based on SVD and clustering	30
Enimanal: Augmented cross-architecture IoT malware analysis using graph neural networks	29
Flexible software protection	29
Security in microservice-based systems: A Multivocal literature review	29
Editorial Board	29
Thwarting code-reuse and side-channel attacks in embedded systems	29
Detecting malicious reviews and users affecting social reviewing systems: A survey	29
Anomalous distributed traffic: Detecting cyber security attacks amongst microservices using graph convolutional networks	29
A secure routing scheme to mitigate attack in wireless adhoc sensor network	29
Cloud computing security: A survey of service-based models	28
Fuzzing vulnerability discovery techniques: Survey, challenges and future directions	28
Enforcement of separation of duty constraints in attribute-based access control	28
Longitudinal risk-based security assessment of docker software container images	28
Microscopic printing analysis and application for classification of source printer	28
APLDP: Adaptive personalized local differential privacy data collection in mobile crowdsensing	28
Don’t get stung, cover your ICS in honey: How do honeypots fit within industrial control system security	28
Advancing IoT security with flame: A hybrid approach combining fuzzy logic and artificial lizard search optimization	27
An enhanced handover authentication solution for 6LoWPAN networks	27
An active learning framework using deep Q-network for zero-day attack detection	27
Secured lightweight authentication for 6LoWPANs in machine-to-machine communications	27
Improving transferable adversarial attack via feature-momentum	27
#Segments: A Dominant Factor of Password Security to Resist against Data-driven Guessing	27
TZMon: Improving mobile game security with ARM trustzone	27
A few-shot malware classification approach for unknown family recognition using malware feature visualization	26
SKT-IDS: Unknown attack detection method based on Sigmoid Kernel Transformation and encoder–decoder architecture	26
Enhancing employees information security awareness in private and public organisations: A systematic literature review	26
Differentially private GANs by adding noise to Discriminator’s loss	26
VehicleLang: A probabilistic modeling and simulation language for modern vehicle IT infrastructures	26
Multimodal-based abnormal behavior detection method in virtualization environment	26
Towards a conceptual definition for IT assets through interrogating their nature and epistemic uncertainty	25
Investigating machine learning attacks on financial time series models	25
A threshold traceable delegation authorization scheme for data sharing in healthcare	25
Influencing the security prioritisation of an agile software development project	25
Access control in Internet of Things: A survey	25
Wasm-Mutate: Fast and effective binary diversification for WebAssembly	25
Pre-processing memory dumps to improve similarity score of Windows modules	25
SoK: Run-time security for cloud microservices. Are we there yet?	25
EvilModel 2.0: Bringing Neural Network Models into Malware Attacks	25
Exploring compiler optimization space for control flow obfuscation	25

Vulnerabilities in Android webview objects: Still not the end!	24
EnsembleFool: A method to generate adversarial examples based on model fusion strategy	24
Information security policy non-compliance: Can capitulation theory explain user behaviors?	24
SG-PAC: A stochastic game approach to generate personal privacy paradox access-control policies in social networks	24
Rethinking maximum-margin softmax for adversarial robustness	24
Privacy-preserving certificateless public auditing supporting different auditing frequencies	24
A systematic review of current cybersecurity training methods	24
A typology of cybersecurity behavior among knowledge workers	24
A survey on the (in)security of trusted execution environments	23
An ensemble of pre-trained transformer models for imbalanced multiclass malware classification	23
WebAssembly diversification for malware evasion	23
Examining usable security features and user perceptions of Physical Authentication Devices	23
Differential area analysis for ransomware attack detection within mixed file datasets	23
Semi-supervised log anomaly detection based on bidirectional temporal convolution network	23
Extreme minority class detection in imbalanced data for network intrusion	23
A novel cryptosystem based on DNA cryptography and randomly generated mealy machine	23
IoT security certifications: Challenges and potential approaches	23
Revealing the realities of cybercrime in small and medium enterprises: Understanding fear and taxonomic perspectives	23
Differentially private graph publishing with degree distribution preservation	22
The effectiveness of zoom touchscreen gestures for authentication and identification and its changes over time	22
An intelligent multi-layer framework with SHAP integration for botnet detection and classification	22
Dynamic multi-scale topological representation for enhancing network intrusion detection	22
CTI-SOC2M2 – The quest for mature, intelligence-driven security operations and incident response capabilities	22
Moving towards agile cybersecurity incident response: A case study exploring the enabling role of big data analytics-embedded dynamic capabilities	22
Domain adaptation for Windows advanced persistent threat detection	22
Enhancing robustness of person detection: A universal defense filter against adversarial patch attacks	22
Vulnerability impact analysis in software project dependencies based on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)	22
Malware detection on windows audit logs using LSTMs	21
Data privacy and cybersecurity challenges in the digital transformation of the banking sector	21
JStrong: Malicious JavaScript detection based on code semantic representation and graph neural network	21
AIDTF: Adversarial training framework for network intrusion detection	21
Serious games as a tool to model attack and defense scenarios for cyber-security exercises	21
GCN-MHSA: A novel malicious traffic detection method based on graph convolutional neural network and multi-head self-attention mechanism	21
Editorial Board	21
The moderating effect of abusive supervision on information security policy compliance: Evidence from the hospitality industry	21
Editorial	21
Edge intelligence secure frameworks: Current state and future challenges	21
GUIDE: GAN-based UAV IDS Enhancement	21
Designing accurate lightweight intrusion detection systems for IoT networks using fine-tuned linear SVM and feature selectors	21
A comprehensive survey on cyber deception techniques to improve honeypot performance	21
On Android’s activity hijacking prevention	21
Rise of the Metaverse’s Immersive Virtual Reality Malware and the Man-in-the-Room Attack & Defenses	21
Protecting your business against ransomware attacks? Explaining the motivations of entrepreneurs to take future protective measures against cybercrimes using an extended protection motivation theory m	20
A critical review of the techniques used for anomaly detection of HTTP-based attacks: taxonomy, limitations and open challenges	20
Machine learning-based jamming attack classification and effective defense technique	20
Usable and secure? User perception of four authentication methods for mobile banking	20
Robust deep learning early alarm prediction model based on the behavioural smell for android malware	20
A hybrid method for analysis and detection of malicious executables in IoT network	20
Wdt-SCAN: Clustering decentralized social graphs with local differential privacy	20
Flooding attack mitigator for in-vehicle CAN using fault confinement in CAN protocol	20
An empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of attack graphs and MITRE ATT&CK matrices in aiding cyber attack perception amongst decision-makers	20
PeerRemove: An adaptive node removal strategy for P2P botnet based on deep reinforcement learning	20
Unsupervised malicious domain detection with less labeling effort	20
Intrusion detection methods based on integrated deep learning model	20
Zero trust cybersecurity: Critical success factors and A maturity assessment framework	20
Efficient and Robust Malware Detection Based on Control Flow Traces Using Deep Neural Networks	19
LCDA: Lightweight Continuous Device-to-Device Authentication for a Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)	19
Exploring eustress and fear: A new perspective on protection motivation in information security policy compliance within the financial sector	19
AutoVAS: An automated vulnerability analysis system with a deep learning approach	19
A GPU-based machine learning approach for detection of botnet attacks	19
On Detecting and Classifying DGA Botnets and their Families	19
MGA-IDS: Optimal feature subset selection for anomaly detection framework on in-vehicle networks-CAN bus based on genetic algorithm and intrusion detection approach	19
A novel model watermarking for protecting generative adversarial network	19
Learning from cyber security incidents: A systematic review and future research agenda	19
Machine Learning Modeling of GPS Features with Applications to UAV Location Spoofing Detection and Classification	19
Deep learning for insider threat detection: Review, challenges and opportunities	19
An analysis of zero-trust architecture and its cost-effectiveness for organizational security	19
AdStop: Efficient flow-based mobile adware detection using machine learning	19
Security First, Security by Design, or Security Pragmatism – Strategic Roles of IT Security in Digitalization Projects	19
A systematic literature review on online assessment security: Current challenges and integrity strategies	19
Cyber-threat intelligence for security decision-making: A review and research agenda for practice	19
Challenges and pitfalls in malware research	19
Deep secure PalmNet: A novel cancelable palmprint template protection scheme with deep attention net and randomized hashing security mechanism	18
MaDroid: A maliciousness-aware multifeatured dataset for detecting android malware	18
Birds of a feather: Collective privacy of online social activist groups	18
One4All: Manipulate one agent to poison the cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning	18
Multivariate time series anomaly detection by fusion of deep convolution residual autoencoding reconstruction model and ConvLstm forecasting model	18
Robust biometric scheme against replay attacks using one-time biometric templates	18
GC-NLDP: A graph clustering algorithm with local differential privacy	18
Corrigendum to “Expanding the Gordon-Loeb model to cyber-insurance” [Computers & Security Volume 112 (2022) 102533]	18
PPT: A privacy-preserving global model training protocol for federated learning in P2P networks	18
Industrial cyber-physical systems protection: A methodological review	18
RSSI-based attacks for identification of BLE devices	18
Association between stress and information security policy non-compliance behavior: A meta-analysis	18
GhostEncoder: Stealthy backdoor attacks with dynamic triggers to pre-trained encoders in self-supervised learning	17
Walking under the ladder logic: PLC-VBS: a PLC control logic vulnerability scanning tool	17
How memory anxiety can influence password security behavior	17
The role of national cybersecurity strategies on the improvement of cybersecurity education	17
Image-based malware classification using section distribution information	17
Probabilistic modelling of deception-based security framework using markov decision process	17
Taking 5 minutes protects you for 5 months: Evaluating an anti-phishing awareness video	17
ID-based sanitizable signature data integrity auditing scheme with privacy-preserving	17
Using contextual factors to predict information security overconfidence: A machine learning approach	17
A systematic literature review of methods and datasets for anomaly-based network intrusion detection	17
Phishing websites detection via CNN and multi-head self-attention on imbalanced datasets	17