Search Results - "Merlo, Alessio"

Obfuscapk: An open-source black-box obfuscation tool for Android apps by Aonzo, Simone, Georgiu, Gabriel Claudiu, Verderame, Luca, Merlo, Alessio

“…Obfuscapk is an open-source automatic obfuscation tool for Android apps that works in a black-box fashion (i.e., it does not need the app source code)…”
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MaCySTe: A virtual testbed for maritime cybersecurity by Longo, Giacomo, Orlich, Alessandro, Musante, Stefano, Merlo, Alessio, Russo, Enrico

“…The increasing reliance on technology and automation in the maritime sector has made it more vulnerable to cyberattacks. Cyber threats to ships and offshore…”
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SEBASTiAn: A static and extensible black-box application security testing tool for iOS and Android applications by Pagano, Francesco, Romdhana, Andrea, Caputo, Davide, Verderame, Luca, Merlo, Alessio

“…Despite decades of research, the automatic detection of vulnerabilities in mobile apps remains an open challenge. Among the possible solutions, SAST tools…”
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A Fraud-Resilient Blockchain-Based Solution for Invoice Financing by Guerar, Meriem, Merlo, Alessio, Migliardi, Mauro, Palmieri, Francesco, Verderame, Luca

“…Invoice financing has been a steadily growing component of the financing market as a whole for the last few years, and, in 2016, it became the third largest…”
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A data anonymization methodology for security operations centers: Balancing data protection and security in industrial systems by Longo, Giacomo, Lupia, Francesco, Merlo, Alessio, Pagano, Francesco, Russo, Enrico

“…In an era where industrial Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are paramount to enabling cybersecurity, they can unintentionally become enablers of intellectual…”
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PARIOT: Anti-repackaging for IoT firmware integrity by Verderame, Luca, Ruggia, Antonio, Merlo, Alessio

“…IoT repackaging refers to an attack devoted to tampering with a legitimate firmware package by modifying its content (e.g., injecting some malicious code) and…”
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A survey on energy-aware security mechanisms by Merlo, Alessio, Migliardi, Mauro, Caviglione, Luca

“…The increasing adoption of mobile devices as the preferred tool to access the Internet imposes to deepen the investigation of security aspects. In parallel,…”
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Attacking (and Defending) the Maritime Radar System by Longo, Giacomo, Russo, Enrico, Armando, Alessandro, Merlo, Alessio

“…The operation of radar equipment is one of the key facilities navigators use to gather situational awareness about their surroundings. With an ever-increasing…”
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Enabling Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Ships by Lossless Protocol Transformations by Longo, Giacomo, Orlich, Alessandro, Merlo, Alessio, Russo, Enrico

“…This paper uses data processing techniques to reduce the required transmission bandwidth in ship-to-shore communications. The proposed framework (ONline…”
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Completely Automated Public Physical test to tell Computers and Humans Apart: A usability study on mobile devices by Guerar, Meriem, Merlo, Alessio, Migliardi, Mauro

“…A very common approach adopted to fight the increasing sophistication and dangerousness of malware and hacking is to introduce more complex authentication…”
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You Shall not Repackage! Demystifying Anti-Repackaging on Android by Merlo, Alessio, Ruggia, Antonio, Sciolla, Luigi, Verderame, Luca

“…•We assess the state-of-the-art of anti-repackaging schemes on Android.•We describe the main attacking methodologies to anti-repackaging on Android.•We provide…”
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LiDiTE: a Full-Fledged and Featherweight Digital Twin Framework by Russo, Enrico, Costa, Gabriele, Longo, Giacomo, Armando, Alessandro, Merlo, Alessio

“…The rising of the Cyber-Physical System (CPS) and the Industry 4.0 paradigms demands the design and implementation of Digital Twin Frameworks (DTFs) that may…”
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Assessing the security of inter-app communications in android through reinforcement learning by Romdhana, Andrea, Merlo, Alessio, Ceccato, Mariano, Tonella, Paolo

“…A central aspect of the Android platform is Inter-Component Communication (ICC), which allows the reuse of functionality across apps and components through…”
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Invisible CAPPCHA: A usable mechanism to distinguish between malware and humans on the mobile IoT by Guerar, Meriem, Merlo, Alessio, Migliardi, Mauro, Palmieri, Francesco

“…•Movement-driven invisible CAPTCHA for smartphones.•Overcome the limitations of CAPTCHAs without requiring user input.•Reliably and transparently identify the…”
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You Can't Always Get What You Want: Towards User-Controlled Privacy on Android by Caputo, Davide, Pagano, Francesco, Bottino, Giovanni, Verderame, Luca, Merlo, Alessio

“…Mobile applications (hereafter, apps) collect a plethora of information regarding the user behavior and his device through third-party analytics libraries…”
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Securing PIN‐based authentication in smartwatches with just two gestures by Guerar, Meriem, Migliardi, Mauro, Palmieri, Francesco, Verderame, Luca, Merlo, Alessio

“…Summary Smartwatches are becoming increasingly ubiquitous as they offer new capabilities to develop sophisticated applications that make daily life easier and…”
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ARMAND: Anti-Repackaging through Multi-pattern Anti-tampering based on Native Detection by Merlo, Alessio, Ruggia, Antonio, Sciolla, Luigi, Verderame, Luca

“…App repackaging refers to the practice of customizing an existing mobile app and redistributing it in the wild to fool the final user into installing the…”
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Automatic security verification of mobile app configurations by Costa, Gabriele, Merlo, Alessio, Verderame, Luca, Armando, Alessandro

“…The swift and continuous evolution of mobile devices is encouraging both private and public organizations to adopt the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) paradigm…”
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Low-Resource Footprint, Data-Driven Malware Detection on Android by Aonzo, Simone, Merlo, Alessio, Migliardi, Mauro, Oneto, Luca, Palmieri, Francesco

“…Resource-constrained systems are becoming more and more common as users migrate from PCs to mobile devices and as IoT systems enter the mainstream. At the same…”
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Securing the "Bring Your Own Device" Paradigm by Armando, Alessandro, Costa, Gabriele, Verderame, Luca, Merlo, Alessio

“…The current mobile application distribution model cannot cope with the complex security requirements of the emerging "bring your own device" (BYOD) paradigm. A…”
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