Ransomware, a class of self-propagating malware that uses encryption to hold the victims'
data ransom, has emerged in recent years as one of the most dangerous cyber threats, with …

The backbone of the economy, security and sustainability of a state is inseparably linked to
the security of its critical infrastructure. Critical infrastructures define goods, systems or …

Developments and upgrades in the field of industrial information technology, particularly
those relating to information systems' technologies for the collection and processing of real …

Currently, most computer systems use user IDs and passwords as the login patterns to
authenticate users. However, many people share their login patterns with coworkers and …

In Internet-based communication, different types of networks are used to provide services to
users. Due to exploration of different types of vulnerabilities, day by day threat of attacks in …

According to the latest projections of the International Energy Agency, smart grid
technologies have become essential to handling the radical changes expected in …

In this paper, we propose a proactive security method that estimates distributed denial of
service (DDoS) attack volume in order to overcome the limitation of the response time of …

Phishing scams and attacks attempt to trick people into providing sensitive personal
information such as account login credentials, credit card numbers, banking details and …

With the fast development of information and communication technologies over the past
decade, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) has been widely implemented for health …

This book chapter reviews the history of Healthcare Information Systems (HISs), discusses
recent cyber security threats affecting HISs, and then introduces the autonomic computing …