Anuj Kumar Singh¹, Mohammed Alshehri^2,*, Shashi Bhushan³, Manoj Kumar³, Osama Alfarraj⁴, Kamal Raj Pardarshani⁵

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.27, No.3, pp. 761-769, 2021, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2021.012806

Abstract Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been used in numerous delicate checking, observation, and surveillance systems that use sensitive data. When a WSN utilizes various data clustering techniques, data is moved to the cluster head (CH) of the corresponding cluster area. Cluster Head further communicates the information to the sink node. In a WSN, a network owner (NO) does not validate a sensor before connecting to the network, so faulty nodes may likely attach to the network to sense the data and attempt to release the information to unauthorized persons. Further, a malicious node may become… More >

Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3701-3719, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015785

Abstract Due to the rapid increase in the exchange of text information via internet networks, the security and the reliability of digital content have become a major research issue. The main challenges faced by researchers are authentication, integrity verification, and tampering detection of the digital contents. In this paper, text zero-watermarking and text feature-based approach is proposed to improve the tampering detection accuracy of English text contents. The proposed approach embeds and detects the watermark logically without altering the original English text document. Based on hidden Markov model (HMM), the fourth level order of the word… More >

V. Manikandan^1,*, M. Sivaram¹, Amin Salih Mohammed², V. Porkodi³, K. Shankar⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 4005-4018, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014643

Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has been extensively utilized as a communication model in Internet of Things (IoT). As well, to offer service, numerous IoT based applications need effective transmission over unstable locations. To ensure reliability, prevailing investigations exploit multiple candidate forwarders over geographic opportunistic routing in WSNs. Moreover, these models are affected by crucial denial of service (DoS) attacks, where huge amount of invalid data are delivered intentionally to the receivers to disturb the functionality of WSNs. Here, secure localization based authentication (SLA) is presented to fight against DoS attack, and to fulfil the need… More >

Ayesha Riaz¹, Naveed Riaz¹, Awais Mahmood^2,*, Sajid Ali Khan³, Imran Mahmood¹, Omar Almutiry², Habib Dhahri²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 2747-2764, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014418

Abstract The COVID-19 outbreak and its medical distancing phenomenon have effectively turned the global healthcare challenge into an opportunity for Telecare Medical Information Systems. Such systems employ the latest mobile and digital technologies and provide several advantages like minimal physical contact between patient and healthcare provider, easy mobility, easy access, consistent patient engagement, and cost-effectiveness. Any leakage or unauthorized access to users’ medical data can have serious consequences for any medical information system. The majority of such systems thus rely on biometrics for authenticated access but biometric systems are also prone to a variety of attacks… More >

Xiaoliang Wang¹, Xinhui She¹, Liang Bai^2,*, Yang Qing¹, Frank Jiang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.3, pp. 3349-3361, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.012454

Abstract The vehicular cloud computing is an emerging technology that changes vehicle communication and underlying traffic management applications. However, cloud computing has disadvantages such as high delay, low privacy and high communication cost, which can not meet the needs of real-time interactive information of Internet of vehicles. Ensuring security and privacy in Internet of Vehicles is also regarded as one of its most important challenges. Therefore, in order to ensure the user information security and improve the real-time of vehicle information interaction, this paper proposes an anonymous authentication scheme based on edge computing. In this scheme,… More >

Debajit Datta¹, Lalit Garg^2,*, Kathiravan Srinivasan³, Atsushi Inoue⁴, G. Thippa Reddy³, M. Praveen Kumar Reddy³, K. Ramesh⁵, Nidal Nasser⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 723-751, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014802

Abstract The prodigious advancements in contemporary technologies have also brought in the situation of unprecedented cyber-attacks. Further, the pin-based security system is an inadequate mechanism for handling such a scenario. The reason is that hackers use multiple strategies for evading security systems and thereby gaining access to private data. This research proposes to deploy diverse approaches for authenticating and securing a connection amongst two devices/gadgets via sound, thereby disregarding the pins’ manual verification. Further, the results demonstrate that the proposed approaches outperform conventional pin-based authentication or QR authentication approaches. Firstly, a random signal is encrypted, and… More >

Rachid Zagrouba^1,*, Asayel AlAbdullatif¹, Kholood AlAjaji¹, Norah Al-Serhani¹, Fahd Alhaidari¹, Abdullah Almuhaideb², Atta-ur-Rahman²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 1103-1119, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014035

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is where almost anything can be controlled and managed remotely by means of sensors. Although the IoT evolution led to quality of life enhancement, many of its devices are insecure. The lack of robust key management systems, efficient identity authentication, low fault tolerance, and many other issues lead to IoT devices being easily targeted by attackers. In this paper we propose a new authentication protocol called Authenblue that improve the authentication process of IoT devices and Coordinators of Personal Area Network (CPANs) in an Industrial IoT (IIoT) environment. This study… More >

Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^1,*, Huda G. Iskandar², Mohammad Alamgeer³, Mokhtar M. Ghilan²

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.6, pp. 1267-1283, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.013782

Abstract In this paper, a robust approach INLPETWA (an Intelligent Natural Language Processing and English Text Watermarking Approach) is proposed to tampering detection of English text by integrating zero text watermarking and hidden Markov model as a soft computing and natural language processing techniques. In the INLPETWA approach, embedding and detecting the watermark key logically conducted without altering the plain text. Second-gram and word mechanism of hidden Markov model is used as a natural text analysis technique to extracts English text features and use them as a watermark key and embed them logically and validates them More >

Jihai Yang¹, Zongtao Duan¹, Muyao Wang², Jabar Mahmood¹, Yuanyuan Xiao¹, Yun Yang^1,*

Journal of New Media, Vol.2, No.4, pp. 157-165, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jnm.2020.014309

Abstract Modern autonomous vehicles are getting progressively popular and increasingly getting closer to the core of future development in transportation field. However, there is no reliable authentication mechanism for the unmanned vehicle communication system, this phenomenon draws attention about the security of autonomous vehicles of people in all aspects. Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) circuits is light-weight, and it can product unique and unpredictable digital signature utilizing the manufacturing variations occur in each die and these exact silicon features cannot be recreated theoretically. Considering security issues of communication between Electronic Control Units (ECUs) in vehicles, we propose… More >

Xiangwei Meng, Jianbo Xu^*, Xiaohe Wu, Zhechong Wang

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.2, No.3, pp. 107-114, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2020.09901

Abstract Please WBANs are a sensor network for detection and collection of sensitive data to the human body, which is lightweight and mobile. WBANs transmit sensitive and significant messages through the public channel, which makes it easy for an attacker to eavesdrop and modify the messages, thus posing a severe threat to the security of the messages. Therefore, it is essential to put in place authentication and key agreement between different communication nodes in WBANs. In this paper, a lightweight and secure authenticated key agreement protocol in wireless body area networks is designed. It is More >