Giampaolo Bella – författare

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications, SecITC 2022, held as a virtual event, during December 8–9, 2022.The 19 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover topics such as cryptographic algorithms, digital forensics and cyber security and much more.

Voice-controllable devices allow hands-free interactions, offering a modern user experience and helping impaired users. However, the voice channel that enables this interaction is also one of their main weaknesses.Higher usability often comes with higher security and privacy risks. As Voice-Controllable Devices are no exception to this, a plethora of new attacks have been carried out against them in recent years. In this book, several attacks are analysed against the voice channel available in the literature; it then devises a bespoke kill chain to facilitate the classification of attack steps and future research. Additionally, the work analyses the design of the notorious Alexa vs Alexa attack, which turned Echo Dot devices against themselves in 2022. Finally, the present volume explores measures against all these attacks and raise important questions about their suitability for user needs.Topics and features:Discusses timely security and privacy challenges in IoT devices, with an emphasis on voice-controllable devicesProvides a framework for assessing and studying attacks against the voice channelAddresses practical attacks successfully carried out against real devices, showing that an impactful attack need not be complexExplores advanced safeguards from a new perspective, questioning whether research is proceeding in the right directionThis powerful volume—containing tips, tricks, and techniques used by ethical hackers to breach the voice channel—serves as the perfect guide for researchers conducting security and privacy research on IoT. It also provides food for thought for graduate students and enthusiasts of these subjects who do not shy away from the mathematics behind the world of machine learning.

Voice-controllable devices allow hands-free interactions, offering a modern user experience and helping impaired users. However, the voice channel that enables this interaction is also one of their main weaknesses.Higher usability often comes with higher security and privacy risks. As Voice-Controllable Devices are no exception to this, a plethora of new attacks have been carried out against them in recent years. In this book, several attacks are analysed against the voice channel available in the literature; it then devises a bespoke kill chain to facilitate the classification of attack steps and future research. Additionally, the work analyses the design of the notorious Alexa vs Alexa attack, which turned Echo Dot devices against themselves in 2022. Finally, the present volume explores measures against all these attacks and raise important questions about their suitability for user needs.Topics and features:Discusses timely security and privacy challenges in IoT devices, with an emphasis on voice-controllable devicesProvides a framework for assessing and studying attacks against the voice channelAddresses practical attacks successfully carried out against real devices, showing that an impactful attack need not be complexExplores advanced safeguards from a new perspective, questioning whether research is proceeding in the right directionThis powerful volume—containing tips, tricks, and techniques used by ethical hackers to breach the voice channel—serves as the perfect guide for researchers conducting security and privacy research on IoT. It also provides food for thought for graduate students and enthusiasts of these subjects who do not shy away from the mathematics behind the world of machine learning.

Computer network security is critical to fraud prevention and accountability. Network participants are required to observe predefined steps called security protocols, whose proof of correctness is evidence that each protocol step preserves some desired properties.The author investigates proofs of correctness of realistic security protocols in a formal, intuitive setting. The protocols examined include Kerberos versions, smartcard protocols, non-repudiation protocols, and certified email protocols. The method of analysis, the Inductive Method in the theorem prover Isabelle, turns out to be both powerful and flexible. This research advances significant extensions to the method of analysis, while the findings on the protocols analysed are novel and illuminating.This book will benefit researchers and graduate students in the fields of formal methods, information security, inductive methods, and networking.