Stand of the art approaches to detect malware in networks are based on detecting them by an analysis of pattern in a network stream. But what is, if the malware has slipped through all security controls, uses encryption and is commanded and controlled by a human or artificial intelligence? Next...

The financial sector is one of the most critical and sensitive sectors. Cybercriminals look to exploit it for large amounts of money and financial information. The attacks range from exploiting any vulnerability (digital or physical) to take profit by means of extortion, theft, fraud and impersonation. Moreover, the financial sector...

From establishing simple connections online, through enabling e-commerce and risky transactions, to conducting online voting, trust has come to serve the online communities the very same purpose it serves the traditional world: facilitator of our online presence and interactions, of community building and, ultimately, enabler of democracy. In contrast, misinformation...

One of the targets of CONCORDIA is to build a European Secured, Resilient and Trusted Networked Ecosystem and also create and promote excellent academic research, as well as producing excellent papers for scientific journals, conferences and workshops. Within this context CONCORDIA also supports a number of conferences and workshops by...

In an ever-expanding and fully connected world of device-centric solutions, a significant amount of IoT/Embedded systems has been deployed in a plethora of environments. This adaptation of the recent advancements of the technological field in Embedded systems these recent years can be evaluated as quite hasty, focusing mainly on performance...

In our more-than-ever interconnected world, we are quite aware that cyber crises cannot be contained in one’s borders, and there is a similar case with this health-related crisis. Day by day, it becomes obvious that dealing with the covid-19 crisis, follows the same lifecycle as dealing with a cyber crisis...

Increasing the Netherlands’ DDoS resilience together, part III of III In parts I and II of this blog series, we introduced the concept of the Dutch Anti-DDoS Coalition and described the status of one of its pillars, the DDoS clearing house. Today, we’ll discuss the lessons we’ve learned and how...

Increasing the Netherlands’ DDoS resilience together, part II of III Last week, we spoke about the Dutch Anti-DDoS Coalition, how it came about and its goal of realising a cooperative DDoS mitigation strategy by using a combination of five instruments. This week, we’ll take a closer look at one of...