This practical experience report presents the results of an investigation into the threat of attacks associated with the chat medium IRC. A combination of simulated users (i.e., b...
In the past few years, IRC bots, malicious programs which are remotely controlled by the attacker through IRC servers, have become a major threat to the Internet and users. These ...
Insider attacks are a well-known problem acknowledged as a threat as early as 1980s. The threat is attributed to legitimate users who abuse their privileges, and given their famil...
There is a clear intuitive connection between the notion of leakage of information in a program and concepts from information theory. This intuition has not been satisfactorily pi...
Compared to the last decades, we have recently seen more and more governmental applications which are provided via the Internet directly to the citizens. Due to the long history o...
Andreas Ekelhart, Stefan Fenz, Thomas Neubauer, Ed...