Saeed M. Alshahrani¹, Nayyar Ahmed Khan^1,*, Jameel Almalki², Waleed Al Shehri²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5625-5640, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.030982

Abstract The continuous destruction and frauds prevailing due to phishing URLs make it an indispensable area for research. Various techniques are adopted in the detection process, including neural networks, machine learning, or hybrid techniques. A novel detection model is proposed that uses data mining with the Particle Swarm Optimization technique (PSO) to increase and empower the method of detecting phishing URLs. Feature selection based on various techniques to identify the phishing candidates from the URL is conducted. In this approach, the features mined from the URL are extracted using data mining rules. The features are selected on the basis of URL… More >

Wael Said¹, Elsayed Mostafa^1,*, M. M. Hassan¹, Ayman Mohamed Mostafa²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 3193-3209, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023554

Abstract User's data is considered as a vital asset of several organizations. Migrating data to the cloud computing is not an easy decision for any organization due to the privacy and security concerns. Service providers must ensure that both data and applications that will be stored on the cloud should be protected in a secure environment. The data stored on the public cloud will be vulnerable to outside and inside attacks. This paper provides interactive multi-layer authentication frameworks for securing user identities on the cloud. Different access control policies are applied for verifying users on the cloud. A security mechanism is… More >

Kiranbir Kaur^{1, *}, Sandeep Sharma¹, Karanjeet Singh Kahlon²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.2, pp. 1625-1647, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011535

Abstract Vendor lock-in can occur at any layer of the cloud stack-Infrastructure, Platform, and Software-as-a-service. This paper covers the vendor lock-in issue at Platform as a Service (PaaS) level where applications can be created, deployed, and managed without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. These applications and their persisted data on one PaaS provider are not easy to port to another provider. To overcome this issue, we propose a middleware to abstract and make the database services as cloud-agnostic. The middleware supports several SQL and NoSQL data stores that can be hosted and ported among disparate PaaS providers. It facilitates the developers… More >