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Manipulation Data Collection and Annotation Tool for Media Forensics

June 17, 2019
Author(s)
Eric Robertson, Haiying Guan, Mark Kozak, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Andrew Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothee N. Kheyrkhah, Jeff Smith, Jonathan G. Fiscus
With the increasing diversity and complexity of media forensics techniques, the evaluation of state-of-the-art detectors are impeded by lacking the metadata and manipulation history ground-truth. This paper presents a novel image/video manipulation

FIPS 140-3 Adopts ISO/IEC Standards

May 20, 2019
Author(s)
Kim B. Schaffer
This bulletin summarizes the information found in FIPS 140-3: Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules which is applicable to all federal agencies that use cryptographic-based security systems to provide adequate information security for all agency

Post-Quantum Cryptography and 5G Security: Tutorial

May 15, 2019
Author(s)
T. Charles Clancy, Robert W. McGwier, Lidong Chen
The Fifth Generation (5G) mobile broadband standards make a fundamental shift in cryptography. Prior generations based their security and privacy principally on symmetric key cryptography. The Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and its successors contain a

Unraveling Low Abundance Intimate Mixtures with Deep Learning

May 14, 2019
Author(s)
Ronald G. Resmini, Kevin Christiansen, David Allen
The high-confidence detection and identification of very low abundance, subpixel quantities of solid materials in nonlinear/intimate mixtures are still significant challenges for hyperspectral imagery (HSI) data analysis. We compare the ability of a

Vetting the Security of Mobile Applications

April 19, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Ogata, Josh Franklin, Jeff Voas, Vincent Sritapan, Stephen Quirolgico
Mobile applications are an integral part of our everyday personal and professional lives. As both public and private organizations rely more on mobile applications, ensuring that they are reasonably free from vulnerabilities and defects becomes paramount

Browser Fingerprinting using Combinatorial Sequence Testing

April 1, 2019
Author(s)
Bernhard Garn, Dimitris Simos, Stefan Zimmer, D. Richard Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker
In this paper, we propose an approach for browser fingerprinting using their behavior during the TLS 1.2 handshake with a server. Using combinatorial methods, we created test sets consisting of TLS server-side messages as sequences that are sent to the

Voices of First Responders Examining Public Safety Communication Problems and Requested Functionality: Findings from User-Centered Interviews, Phase 1, Volume 2

March 28, 2019
Author(s)
Shanee T. Dawkins, Yee-Yin Choong, Mary F. Theofanos, Kristen Greene, Susanne M. Furman, Michelle P. Steves, Sandra S. Prettyman
The public safety community has a unique opportunity to improve communication technology for incident response with the creation of the national public safety broadband network (NPSBN). Understanding the problems currently being experienced by first

Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules

March 22, 2019
Author(s)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Michael J. Cooper, Kim B. Schaffer
The selective application of technological and related procedural safeguards is an important responsibility of every federal organization in providing adequate security in its computer and telecommunication systems. This standard is applicable to all

Rethinking Distributed Ledger Technology

March 20, 2019
Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Dylan J. Yaga, Jeffrey M. Voas
Blockchains were designed to solve the problem of double-spending in cryptocurrencies, and the success of the Bitcoin design has generated vastly more interest than previous proposals for digital currencies. Blockchains are being used in other areas as

A data science challenge for converting airborne remote sensing data into ecological information

February 28, 2019
Author(s)
Sergio Marconi, Sarah J. Graves, Dihong Gong, Shahriari Nia Morteza, Marion Le Bras, Bonnie J. Dorr, Peter Fontana, Justin Gearhart, Craig Greenberg, Dave J. Harris, Sugumar A. Kumar, Agarwal Nishant, Joshi Prarabdh, Sandeep U. Rege, Stephanie A. Bohlman, Ethan P. White, Daisy Z. Wang
In recent years ecology has reached the point where a data science competition could be very productive. Large amounts of open data are increasingly available and areas of shared interest around which to center competitions are increasingly prominent. The

Case Study - Exploring Children's Password Knowledge and Practices

February 23, 2019
Author(s)
Yee-Yin Choong, Mary Theofanos, Karen Renaud, Suzanne Prior
Children use technology from a very young age, and often have to authenticate themselves. Yet very little attention has been paid to designing authentication specifically for this particular target group. The usual practice is to deploy the ubiquitous

A Layered Graphical Model for Cloud Forensic and Mission Impact Analysis

February 1, 2019
Author(s)
Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera
In this paper, we describe a layered graphical model to analyze the impact of cyber attacks on business processes and services. Our model has three layers: the upper layer models the business processes and their dependencies. The middle layer constructs

A Method Level Test Generation Framework for Debugging Big Data Applications

January 24, 2019
Author(s)
Huadong Feng, Jagan Chandrasekaran, Yu Lei, Raghu N. Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn
When a failure occurs in a big data application, debugging with the original dataset can be difficult due to the large amount of data being processed. This paper introduces a framework for effectively generating method-level tests to facilitate debugging

Generating Domain Terminologies using Root- and Rule-Based Terms

December 21, 2018
Author(s)
Talapady N. Bhat, John T. Elliott, Ursula R. Kattner, Carelyn E. Campbell, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Ram D. Sriram, Jacob Collard, Monarch Ira
Motivated by the need for exible, intuitive, reusable, and normalized ter- minology for the semantic web, we present a general approach for generat- ing sets of such terminologies from nat- ural language documents. The terms that this approach generates

Threat Modeling for Cloud Infrastructures

December 21, 2018
Author(s)
Nawaf Alhebaishi, Lingyu Wang, Anoop Singhal
Today's businesses are increasingly relying on the cloud as an alternative IT solution due to its flexibility and lower cost. Compared to traditional enterprise networks, a cloud infrastructure is typically much larger and more complex. Understanding the

Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps

December 19, 2018
Author(s)
Gavin W. O'Brien
This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 1800-8: Securing Wireless Infusion Pumps in Healthcare Delivery Organizations which discusses the cybersecurity risks associated with medical devices, such as infusion pumps, which -- in today’s

One Block at a Time Helping to Build Blockchain Knowledge

October 26, 2018
Author(s)
Dylan J. Yaga
This bulletin summarizes the information found in NISTIR 8202: Blockchain Technology overview which provides a high-level technical overview of blockchain technology. It discusses its application to cryptocurrency in depth, but also shows its broader

On Building Fair and Reusable Test Collections using Bandit Techniques

October 17, 2018
Author(s)
Ellen Voorhees
While test collections are a vital piece of the research infrastructure for information retrieval, constructing fair, reusable test collections for large data sets is challenging because of the number of human relevance assessments required. Various

PSCR 2017 Stakeholder Conference Presentation Materials -- Day 3

October 16, 2018
Author(s)
Dereck R. Orr, Richard A. Rouil, Jeremy E. Benson, David W. Griffith, Fidel Liberal, Robert Escalle, Sonim Technologies, Richard Lau, Vencore Labs, Paul Sutton, Software Radio Systems LTD, Sumit Roy, Sean Sangodoyin, David A. Howe, Fabio C. Da Silva, Alicia Evangelista, Yet2, Brienne Engel, Yet2, John S. Garofolo
This document is a compilation of the slides presented during Day 3 of the 2017 Public Safety Communications Research Program's (PSCR) Annual Stakeholder Conference. Day 3 topics include PSCR research plans and results for Mission Critical Voice, Indoor

Circuit designs for superconducting optoelectronic loop neurons

October 12, 2018
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Shainline, Adam N. McCaughan, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Sonia M. Buckley
We present designs of superconducting optoelectronic neurons based on superconducting single- photon detectors, Josephson junctions, semiconductor light sources, and multi-planar dielectric waveguides. The neurons send few-photon signals to synaptic

Blockchain Technology Overview

October 3, 2018
Author(s)
Dylan J. Yaga, Peter M. Mell, Nik Roby, Karen Scarfone
Blockchains are tamper evident and tamper resistant digital ledgers implemented in a distributed fashion (i.e., without a central repository) and usually without a central authority (i.e., a bank, company, or government). At their basic level, they enable
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