Targeting financial organisations with DDoS: a multi-sided perspective: Comparing patterns in AmpPot data to experts view on target selection in the financial sector

Currently, DDoS attacks have become inevitable for financial services and their threat keeps rising. Numerous researches have focused on the technical since the rise of DDoS amplification attacks. However, there is less understanding regarding their target selection on financial services. This research uses a mixed method approach to capture...

Assessing the Role of Online Banking Characteristics in the Target Selection of Banking Malware

Understanding target selection is a step before making a suitable proactive measure to address the complex issue of banking malware in online banking landscape. Despite several previous studies, gaps in the research of target selection are still present like the lack of attention to the non-targeted entities, the presence of other potential...

Creating a Configuration Security Layer for Embedded Devices: A research-based on the case study of a widely used Embedded Device

As software security expert Bruce Schneier argues, the pervasive vulnerability of embedded systems today is structurally similar to the security crisis of PCs in the mid-1990s—only much worse. Embedded devices are ideal malware targets for several reasons. Firstly, Internet-connected devices are inherently more exposed to remote exploitation....

Improving financial services organisations their information security: Improving the implementation of the right access controls in IAM systems of organisations within the financial services sector

The battle has been won, but the war is not over: A study of the end-user remediation of mobile phone users infected by smishing-based malware and the misalignment thereof

Mobile phones are playing an increasingly significant role. The surge of services and tasks performed on mobile phones is accompanied by an ever-increasing amount of personal data about the owner. This has made mobile phones ideal targets for cyber criminals and it has translated into an increase in malware targeting mobile phones. Social...