In the last years most of our daily activities have moved to the digital world, including sensitive operations related to health data management and financial processes. Security flaws in the systems running these critical ...

Embedded devices represents the most widespread form of computing device in the world. Almost every consumer product manufactured in the last decades contains an embedded system, e.g., refrigerators, smart bulbs, activity ...

When we authenticate on online web sites, passwords are the only thing that separates attackers from getting into our account. When we have to register on web sites, we are asked to generate a password, that we have to ...

In the past few years the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, made the embedded security field more interesting for potential attackers. Indeed, the embedded devices spread from pacemakers to smart wallets and other ...

Intrusion detection systems represent a fundamental component at the basis of the information security of a computer network. The increasing improvements in the field of data mining, due to the capabilities of the modern ...

In this thesis, we focus on helping the process of finding vulnerabilities in software. Even though it is a widely addressed topic, insecure code is still one of the main causes of security issues in in software because a ...

Password are stored in the form of one-way hashes, some password cracking tools such as hashcat can be used to crack efficiently the password using dictionaries and appropriate rules. Recent work show how the tools can be ...

Si effettua un'analisi dell'efficacia delle regole di un Intrusion Detection System per il rilevamento di attacchi informatici rivolti a servizi web. Si studia l'elaborazione di un insieme di regole per scoprire i tentativi ...

Between the beginning and the first half of 2021, countries from the European Union have developed a system in an effort to return a normal life to its citizens. The approved and final solution is what is called the "Digital ...

There exists multiple definitions of embedded device and architecture: generally speaking, an embedded device is an object that contains a special-purpose computing system. These devices can be found in many security ...