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2020-09-11
Ababtain, Eman, Engels, Daniel.  2019.  Security of Gestures Based CAPTCHAs. 2019 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI). :120—126.
We present a security analysis of several gesture CAPTCHA challenges designed to operate on mobiles. Mobile gesture CAPTCHA challenges utilize the accelerometer and the gyroscope inputs from a mobile to allow a human to solve a simple test by physically manipulating the device. We have evaluated the security of gesture CAPTCHA in mobile devices and found them resistant to a range of common automated attacks. Our study has shown that using an accelerometer and the gyroscope readings as an input to solve the CAPTCHA is difficult for malware, but easy for a real user. Gesture CAPTCHA is effective in differentiating between humans and machines.
2019-05-20
Terkawi, A., Innab, N., al-Amri, S., Al-Amri, A..  2018.  Internet of Things (IoT) Increasing the Necessity to Adopt Specific Type of Access Control Technique. 2018 21st Saudi Computer Society National Computer Conference (NCC). :1–5.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the emerging technologies that has seized the attention of researchers, the reason behind that was the IoT expected to be applied in our daily life in the near future and human will be wholly dependent on this technology for comfort and easy life style. Internet of things is the interconnection of internet enabled things or devices to connect with each other and to humans in order to achieve some goals or the ability of everyday objects to connect to the Internet and to send and receive data. However, the Internet of Things (IoT) raises significant challenges that could stand in the way of realizing its potential benefits. This paper discusses access control area as one of the most crucial aspect of security and privacy in IoT and proposing a new way of access control that would decide who is allowed to access what and who is not to the IoT subjects and sensors.

2017-09-05
Zhu, Jun, Chu, Bill, Lipford, Heather.  2016.  Detecting Privilege Escalation Attacks Through Instrumenting Web Application Source Code. Proceedings of the 21st ACM on Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies. :73–80.

Privilege Escalation is a common and serious type of security attack. Although experience shows that many applications are vulnerable to such attacks, attackers rarely succeed upon first trial. Their initial probing attempts often fail before a successful breach of access control is achieved. This paper presents an approach to automatically instrument application source code to report events of failed access attempts that may indicate privilege escalation attacks to a run time application protection mechanism. The focus of this paper is primarily on the problem of instrumenting web application source code to detect access control attack events. We evaluated false positives and negatives of our approach using two open source web applications.