Computers & Security

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	366
Navigating Cybersecurity Governance: The influence of opportunity structures in socio-technical transitions for small and medium enterprises	261
Multivariate time series anomaly detection with variational autoencoder and spatial–temporal graph network	219
A classifications framework for continuous biometric authentication (2018–2024)	182
How do mental models affect cybersecurity awareness? The roles of questioning styles, need for cognition, and graphical representations	179
Privacy and security of wearable internet of things: A scoping review and conceptual framework development for safety and health management in construction	150
E-WebGuard: Enhanced neural architectures for precision web attack detection	138
Detecting interest flooding attacks in NDN: A probability-based event-driven approach	135
RAF-AG: Report analysis framework for attack path generation	134
Enhancing data integrity in opportunistic mobile social network: Leveraging Berkle Tree and secure data routing against attacks	130
A hybrid scoring system for prioritization of software vulnerabilities	126
Container security: Precaution levels, mitigation strategies, and research perspectives	124
How to decrypt files encrypted by Rhysida ransomware without the attacker’s private key	118
SCASS: Breaking into SCADA Systems Security	113
Analysis of human reliability in detecting GPS spoofing on ECDIS in congested waterways under evidential reasoning and HEART approach	112
A review of privacy-preserving biometric identification and authentication protocols	110
A model-based approach for vulnerability analysis of IoT security protocols: The Z-Wave case study	107
Design and implementation of a closed loop time delay feedback control (CLTD-FC) system for mitigating DDos attacks	106
Editorial	104
MAG-PUFs: Authenticating IoT devices via electromagnetic physical unclonable functions and deep learning	98
The mediating role of security anxiety in internet threat avoidance behavior	97
Optimism amid risk: How non-IT employees’ beliefs affect cybersecurity behavior	94
Evaluation framework for quantum security risk assessment: A comprehensive strategy for quantum-safe transition	91
Enhancing user identification through batch averaging of independent window subsequences using smartphone and wearable data	85
A bio-inspired optimal feature with convolutional GhostNet based squeeze excited deep-scale capsule network for intrusion detection	85

A privacy preservation method for multiple-source unstructured data in online social networks	84
Efficient handover protocol for 5G and beyond networks	83
Information security policy non-compliance: Can capitulation theory explain user behaviors?	82
Examining usable security features and user perceptions of Physical Authentication Devices	81
A novel cryptosystem based on DNA cryptography and randomly generated mealy machine	74
Differential area analysis for ransomware attack detection within mixed file datasets	72
IoT security certifications: Challenges and potential approaches	71
Reading is not believing: A multimodal adversarial attacker for Chinese-NLP model	69
IoTSecSim: A framework for modelling and simulation of security in Internet of things	68
AIS-NIDS: An intelligent and self-sustaining network intrusion detection system	68
Defend against adversarial attacks in malware detection through attack space management	68
Adaptive and maladaptive factors behind password manager use: A hope-extended protection motivation perspective	67
A lightweight packet forwarding verification in SDN using sketch	67
Detecting abnormal logins by discovering anomalous links via graph transformers	61
Reducing fraud in organizations through information security policy compliance: An information security controls perspective	61
An empirical analysis of the information security culture key factors framework	61
Towards a cybersecurity culture-behaviour framework: A rapid evidence review	60
An ensemble of pre-trained transformer models for imbalanced multiclass malware classification	60
Machine learning-based early detection of IoT botnets using network-edge traffic	59
MaDroid: A maliciousness-aware multifeatured dataset for detecting android malware	59
Domain adaptation for Windows advanced persistent threat detection	59
A GPU-based machine learning approach for detection of botnet attacks	59
Editorial Board	58
Designing accurate lightweight intrusion detection systems for IoT networks using fine-tuned linear SVM and feature selectors	58
A novel framework to identify cybersecurity challenges and opportunities for organizational digital transformation in the cloud	58
HAE-HRL: A network intrusion detection system utilizing a novel autoencoder and a hybrid enhanced LSTM-CNN-based residual network	57
Editorial Board	57
Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor	57
A novel Evil Twin MiTM attack through 802.11v protocol exploitation	56
Editorial Board	55
GAMBD: Generating adversarial malware against MalConv	55
Observational equivalence and security games: Enhancing the formal analysis of security protocols	55
Editorial Board	55
Beyond robustness: Resilience verification of tree-based classifiers	55
Single-board device individual authentication based on hardware performance and autoencoder transformer models	54
FACILE: A capsule network with fewer capsules and richer hierarchical information for malware image classification	53
Editorial Board	53
Web-tracking compliance: websites’ level of confidence in the use of information-gathering technologies	52
Transferable adversarial examples can efficiently fool topic models	51
Behavioral embedding for continuous user verification in global settings	51
Editorial Board	51
DNS tunnelling detection by fusing encoding feature and behavioral feature	50
Editorial Board	50
A PUF-based secure wake-up scheme for Internet of Things	50
An application specific dynamic behaviour model using function-call sequence and memory access-graph for execution integrity verification	49
Editorial Board	49
LeakFocus: Catching the perpetrator in routing leak event	48
Editorial Board	48
A personalized trajectory privacy protection method	48
Editorial Board	48

Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	48
Dynamic face authentication systems: Deep learning verification for camera close-Up and head rotation paradigms	48
A Two-Step TLS-Based Browser fingerprinting approach using combinatorial sequences	48
On Android’s activity hijacking prevention	47
Robust deep learning early alarm prediction model based on the behavioural smell for android malware	47
Malware detection on windows audit logs using LSTMs	47
An empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of attack graphs and MITRE ATT&CK matrices in aiding cyber attack perception amongst decision-makers	47
Mitigating security stress: Exploring the contingent role of collaborative communication in enhancing information security compliance	47
A secure routing scheme to mitigate attack in wireless adhoc sensor network	46
Detecting malicious reviews and users affecting social reviewing systems: A survey	46
APLDP: Adaptive personalized local differential privacy data collection in mobile crowdsensing	46
A critical review of the techniques used for anomaly detection of HTTP-based attacks: taxonomy, limitations and open challenges	46
Enforcement of separation of duty constraints in attribute-based access control	46
Longitudinal risk-based security assessment of docker software container images	45
Microscopic printing analysis and application for classification of source printer	44
Don’t get stung, cover your ICS in honey: How do honeypots fit within industrial control system security	44
Fuzzing vulnerability discovery techniques: Survey, challenges and future directions	44
An active learning framework using deep Q-network for zero-day attack detection	43
An enhanced handover authentication solution for 6LoWPAN networks	43
TZMon: Improving mobile game security with ARM trustzone	43
A permission-carrying security policy and static enforcement for information flows in Android programs	42
Towards a conceptual definition for IT assets through interrogating their nature and epistemic uncertainty	42
Advancing IoT security with flame: A hybrid approach combining fuzzy logic and artificial lizard search optimization	42
Multimodal-based abnormal behavior detection method in virtualization environment	42
Enhancing intrusion detection in containerized services: Assessing machine learning models and an advanced representation for system call data	42
A few-shot malware classification approach for unknown family recognition using malware feature visualization	42
A threshold traceable delegation authorization scheme for data sharing in healthcare	41
EvilModel 2.0: Bringing Neural Network Models into Malware Attacks	41
Exploring compiler optimization space for control flow obfuscation	41
Investigating machine learning attacks on financial time series models	41
Wasm-Mutate: Fast and effective binary diversification for WebAssembly	41
Rethinking maximum-margin softmax for adversarial robustness	40
Vulnerabilities in Android webview objects: Still not the end!	40
A typology of cybersecurity behavior among knowledge workers	40
A traffic anomaly detection scheme for non-directional denial of service attacks in software-defined optical network	39
Anomalous distributed traffic: Detecting cyber security attacks amongst microservices using graph convolutional networks	39
Wasmati: An efficient static vulnerability scanner for WebAssembly	39
Efficient and Robust Malware Detection Based on Control Flow Traces Using Deep Neural Networks	38
SoK: Run-time security for cloud microservices. Are we there yet?	38
Flexible software protection	38
Wdt-SCAN: Clustering decentralized social graphs with local differential privacy	38
Detection of Cache Pollution Attack Based on Federated Learning in Ultra-Dense Network	38
Flooding attack mitigator for in-vehicle CAN using fault confinement in CAN protocol	38
Cross-domain vulnerability detection using graph embedding and domain adaptation	37
Privacy-preserving certificateless public auditing supporting different auditing frequencies	37
Threat classification model for security information event management focusing on model efficiency	37
Your Behaviors Reveal What You Need: A Practical Scheme Based on User Behaviors for Personalized Security Nudges	37
Three-classification face manipulation detection using attention-based feature decomposition	37
#Segments: A Dominant Factor of Password Security to Resist against Data-driven Guessing	37
GC-NLDP: A graph clustering algorithm with local differential privacy	37
A comparative evaluation of behavioral security motives: Protection, intrinsic, and identity motivations	36
Enimanal: Augmented cross-architecture IoT malware analysis using graph neural networks	36
Stability analysis and optimal control of worm propagation model with saturated incidence rate	36
WebAssembly diversification for malware evasion	36
Cyber-physical attack graphs (CPAGs): Composable and scalable attack graphs for cyber-physical systems	36
Empirically evaluating the effect of security precautions on cyber incidents	36
RSSI-based attacks for identification of BLE devices	35
Fuzzing JavaScript engines with a syntax-aware neural program model	35
Complex yet attainable? An interdisciplinary approach to designing better cyber range exercises	35
A novel biometric authentication scheme with privacy protection based on SVM and ZKP	35
COVER: Enhancing virtualization obfuscation through dynamic scheduling using flash controller-based secure module	35
Detection of malicious PE files using synthesized DNA artifacts	35
HAformer: Semantic fusion of hex machine code and assembly code for cross-architecture binary vulnerability detection	34
An innovative practical roadmap for optimal control strategies in malware propagation through the integration of RL with MPC	34
A reliability anomaly detection method based on enhanced GRU-Autoencoder for Vehicular Fog Computing services	34
Enhancing information security through brainprint: A longitudinal study on ERP identity authentication	34
Fuzzing trusted execution environments with Rust	34
Thread-sensitive fuzzing for concurrency bug detection	34
Covert timing channel detection based on isolated binary trees	34
Challenges and pitfalls in malware research	33
Fault-tolerant security-efficiency combined authentication scheme for manned-unmanned teaming	33
Network-based multidimensional moving target defense against false data injection attack in power system	33
Using alternate reality games to find a needle in a haystack: An approach for testing insider threat detection methods	33
On providing multi-level security assurance based on Common Criteria for O-RAN mobile network equipment. A test case: O-RAN Distributed Unit	33
Design and implementation of an efficient container tag dynamic taint analysis	32
Distance-based linkage of personal microbiome records for identification and its privacy implications	32
Correlated differential privacy based logistic regression for supplier data protection	32
Privacy-preserving correlation of cross-organizational cyber threat intelligence with private graph intersections	32
SABDTM: Security-first architecture-based dynamic trusted measurement scheme for operating system of the virtual computing node	32
Multivariate time series anomaly detection by fusion of deep convolution residual autoencoding reconstruction model and ConvLstm forecasting model	32

PDHF: Effective phishing detection model combining optimal artificial and automatic deep features	32
Towards efficient Secure Boolean Range Query over encrypted spatial data	32
Intrusion detection method based on improved social network search algorithm	31
The moderating effect of abusive supervision on information security policy compliance: Evidence from the hospitality industry	31
A novel dual cloud server privacy-preserving scheme in spatial crowdsourcing	31
Semi-supervised log anomaly detection based on bidirectional temporal convolution network	31
“Get a red-hot poker and open up my eyes, it's so boring”1: Employee perceptions of cybersecurity training	31
PhishHunter: Detecting camouflaged IDN-based phishing attacks via Siamese neural network	31
AttackNet: Enhancing biometric security via tailored convolutional neural network architectures for liveness detection	31
HyperGo: Probability-based directed hybrid fuzzing	31
Differentially private graph publishing with degree distribution preservation	30
EnsembleFool: A method to generate adversarial examples based on model fusion strategy	30
AntiViruses under the microscope: A hands-on perspective	30
SecChecker: Inspecting the security implementation of 5G Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) mobile devices	29
Balancing software and training requirements for information security	29
Vulnerability impact analysis in software project dependencies based on Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT)	29
CLTracer: A Cross-Ledger Tracing framework based on address relationships	29
Enhancing employees information security awareness in private and public organisations: A systematic literature review	29
An approach for predicting multiple-type overflow vulnerabilities based on combination features and a time series neural network algorithm	29
Enhancing robustness of person detection: A universal defense filter against adversarial patch attacks	29
Machine learning-based jamming attack classification and effective defense technique	28
Editorial Board	28
Zero trust cybersecurity: Critical success factors and A maturity assessment framework	28
The effectiveness of zoom touchscreen gestures for authentication and identification and its changes over time	28
MGA-IDS: Optimal feature subset selection for anomaly detection framework on in-vehicle networks-CAN bus based on genetic algorithm and intrusion detection approach	28
A hybrid method for analysis and detection of malicious executables in IoT network	28
AdStop: Efficient flow-based mobile adware detection using machine learning	27
Deep secure PalmNet: A novel cancelable palmprint template protection scheme with deep attention net and randomized hashing security mechanism	27
Association between stress and information security policy non-compliance behavior: A meta-analysis	27
Security First, Security by Design, or Security Pragmatism – Strategic Roles of IT Security in Digitalization Projects	27
Exploring eustress and fear: A new perspective on protection motivation in information security policy compliance within the financial sector	27
Robust biometric scheme against replay attacks using one-time biometric templates	27
A systematic literature review on online assessment security: Current challenges and integrity strategies	27
Corrigendum to “Expanding the Gordon-Loeb model to cyber-insurance” [Computers & Security Volume 112 (2022) 102533]	27
Cybersecurity preparedness of small-to-medium businesses: A Western Australia study with broader implications	26
Learning from cyber security incidents: A systematic review and future research agenda	26
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	26
Cloud computing security: A survey of service-based models	26
On Detecting and Classifying DGA Botnets and their Families	26
One4All: Manipulate one agent to poison the cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning	26
Rise of the Metaverse’s Immersive Virtual Reality Malware and the Man-in-the-Room Attack & Defenses	26
A principlist framework for cybersecurity ethics	26
GCN-MHSA: A novel malicious traffic detection method based on graph convolutional neural network and multi-head self-attention mechanism	26
RETRACTED: I recognize you by your steps: Privacy impact of pedometer data	26
JStrong: Malicious JavaScript detection based on code semantic representation and graph neural network	26
Off-policy actor-critic deep reinforcement learning methods for alert prioritization in intrusion detection systems	26
PeerRemove: An adaptive node removal strategy for P2P botnet based on deep reinforcement learning	26
PDSMV3-DCRNN: A novel ensemble deep learning framework for enhancing phishing detection and URL extraction	25
Unsupervised malicious domain detection with less labeling effort	25
MONDEO-Tactics5G: Multistage botnet detection and tactics for 5G/6G networks	25
Extreme minority class detection in imbalanced data for network intrusion	25
Revealing the realities of cybercrime in small and medium enterprises: Understanding fear and taxonomic perspectives	25
Moving towards agile cybersecurity incident response: A case study exploring the enabling role of big data analytics-embedded dynamic capabilities	25
Machine Learning Modeling of GPS Features with Applications to UAV Location Spoofing Detection and Classification	25
Thwarting code-reuse and side-channel attacks in embedded systems	25
A security awareness and competency evaluation in the energy sector	24
PPT: A privacy-preserving global model training protocol for federated learning in P2P networks	24
FDT: Improving the transferability of adversarial examples with frequency domain transformation	24
Detect malicious websites by building a neural network to capture global and local features of websites	24
LEGO: A hybrid toolkit for efficient 2PC-based privacy-preserving machine learning	24
Birds of a feather: Collective privacy of online social activist groups	24
Dynamic multi-scale topological representation for enhancing network intrusion detection	24
Influencing the security prioritisation of an agile software development project	24
Probabilistic modelling of deception-based security framework using markov decision process	24
An efficient approach for taint analysis of android applications	24
Industrial cyber-physical systems protection: A methodological review	24
GUIDE: GAN-based UAV IDS Enhancement	23
Countering ARP spoofing attacks in software-defined networks using a game-theoretic approach	23
A novel model watermarking for protecting generative adversarial network	23
Intrusion detection methods based on integrated deep learning model	23
Automated machine learning for deep learning based malware detection	23
An Android Malware Detection and Classification Approach Based on Contrastive Lerning	23
Secured lightweight authentication for 6LoWPANs in machine-to-machine communications	23
FLAD: Adaptive Federated Learning for DDoS attack detection	23
Security and privacy problems in voice assistant applications: A survey	23
Security in microservice-based systems: A Multivocal literature review	23
An intelligent multi-layer framework with SHAP integration for botnet detection and classification	23
Lightweight Sybil Attack Detection in IoT based on Bloom Filter and Physical Unclonable Function	23
Cybersecurity communities of practice: Strategies for creating gateways to participation	23
SKT-IDS: Unknown attack detection method based on Sigmoid Kernel Transformation and encoder–decoder architecture	23
Evaluation of Asian Countries using Data Center Security Index: A Spherical Fuzzy AHP-based EDAS Approach	23
Deep learning for insider threat detection: Review, challenges and opportunities	22
SCFL: Mitigating backdoor attacks in federated learning based on SVD and clustering	22
Edge intelligence secure frameworks: Current state and future challenges	22
FUZZOLIC: Mixing fuzzing and concolic execution	22
VehicleLang: A probabilistic modeling and simulation language for modern vehicle IT infrastructures	22
An analysis of zero-trust architecture and its cost-effectiveness for organizational security	22
Improving transferable adversarial attack via feature-momentum	22
The cybersecurity risk estimation engine: A tool for possibility based risk analysis	22
Cybersecurity in smart agriculture: A systematic literature review	22
FineFool: A novel DNN object contour attack on image recognition based on the attention perturbation adversarial technique	22
Cyber-threat intelligence for security decision-making: A review and research agenda for practice	22
FedSIGN: A sign-based federated learning framework with privacy and robustness guarantees	22
A comprehensive survey on cyber deception techniques to improve honeypot performance	22
Zero day ransomware detection with Pulse: Function classification with Transformer models and assembly language	22