Digital Content protection is important Ensuring document integrity in the digital age is a critical challenge. Traditional visible and invisible watermarking methods offer partial protection but have limitations. Visible watermarking can be removed and degrade quality, while invisible watermarking requires specialized tools and may degrade through compression. TThis study presents an innovative document authentication framework that leverages part-of-speech (POS) tag-based graph representations. By transforming textual data into structured graphs, the method captures the unique syntactic signature of each document. This linguistic fingerprint is then encrypted and stored independently, enabling robust verification of document authenticity. The approach not only reinforces security and integrity but also seamlessly integrates with existing natural language processing (NLP) pipelines.

Credit card fraud detection is a critical challenge in modern financial systems, requiring robust and efficient solutions to identify suspicious transactions accurately. This study addresses the issue by utilizing machine learning techniques to detect potentially fraudulent transactions. A key focus of the research is the handling of imbalanced datasets, where genuine transactions vastly outnumber fraudulent ones. To address this imbalance, we increased the sample size of fraudulent data using oversampling techniques and subsequently applied four distinct machine learning models to assess their performance. Through iterative experimentation, we identified the optimal magnification ratio that enhances the model’s ability to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent transactions. The results demonstrate that balancing the dataset significantly improves detection accuracy, providing insights into effective model configurations for realworld applications. This research contributes to the development of more reliable and efficient fraud detection systems in the financial sector.

Drones are integral to various applications, out of which traffic surveillance is an important application. However, their operational efficiency is limited by battery life, which restricts their capacity for extended critical missions. Additionally, in remote or high-interference areas, the bandwidth for drone communication is often limited, leading to a decrease in the quality of images transmitted to the base station. This paper aims to address such challenges by having drones transmit video data in real-time at lower resolutions for traffic monitoring. This approach conserves energy and optimizes transmission. However, it adversely affects object detection accuracy at the base station due to compromised data quality. To address this issue, we incorporate Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to improve LR images, restoring their quality for precise object detection. Results indicate that the accuracy of traffic analytics achieved with GAN-enhanced images is comparable to that obtained with high-resolution data transmission. Consequently, our approach allows a fundamental trade-off among drone energy consumption, transmission time, flight time, and object detection accuracy, enabling robust detection performance while conserving energy and enhancing operational capabilities.

This study assesses the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to mimic a human's sense of taste, specifically in the context of wines. We utilize wine data and machine learning tests to compare the performance of ML models, including Decision Tree, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, and Support Vector Machine, against that of a real sommelier. Our findings show that the Random Forest model outperforms all others in accuracy. Moreover, our results uncover new insights into wine tasting. While our human tongue can detect 11 variables from our dataset, only four of these variables are used by the brain to discern wine flavors. This discovery challenges the previously held belief in the complexity of our sensory system. Our methodology paves the way for future research by streamlining data collection and enhancing its cost efficiency and accuracy by focusing on these essential variables rather than the entire set of eleven.

Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a crucial security mechanism for protecting computer networks from cyber-attacks. Deep learning models have the potential to detect attack types by leveraging their ability to learn and extract features from large volumes of data. In this study, we compare the performance of four different deep learning algorithms for IDS: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU), bidirectional LSTM, and bidirectional GRU. We evaluate the attack prediction accuracy for three types of attacks: Denial of Service (DoS), Generic, and Exploits. We vary each algorithm's range parameter and epochs and determine the best parameter combination sets for achieving the highest accuracy. Our experimental results demonstrate that increased range parameters influence the accuracy of LSTM, bi-LSTM, and Bi-GRU models. Ultimately, GRU proved to have the most outstanding performance among the four algorithms tested.

A small, affordable computer, the size of a debit card called Raspberry Pi, that uses a regular mouse and keyboard and connects to either a desktop screen or television. It makes it possible for people of all generations to learn about computer devices and various programming languages like Python and Scratch. It has all the characteristics of a desktop computer, including the potential to browse the Internet, view high-definition video, work with spreadsheets, write documents, and play games. In addition, the Raspberry Pi was involved with several digital maker projects, such as song players and climate forecasting. It is therefore effective in communicating with people around the world. In this article, detailed features and information of the Raspberry Pi have been discussed very clearly as well as each version along with its alternative boards. The hardware components utilized, as well as the software needed to program it, will be discussed in this article (Raspberry Pi board). This article will offer a broad overview of the Raspberry Pi and is helpful for individuals who want to learn and do projects using the Raspberry Pi by giving them a proper guide and details regarding the Pi boards. It serves as the comprehensive guide for the basic ideas and uses of the Raspberry Pi boards.

Decoding the real structure from the Social Internet-of-Things (SIoT) network with a large-scale noise structure plays a fundamental role in data mining. Protecting private information from leakage in the mining process and obtaining accurate mining results is a significant challenge. To tackle this issue, we present a graph clustering privacy-preserving method based on structure entropy, which combines data mining with the structural information theory. Specially, user private information in SIoT is encrypted by Brakerski–Gentry–Vaikuntanathan (BGV) homomorphism to generate a graph structure in the ciphertext state, the ciphertext graph structure is then divided into different modules by applying a 2-D structural information solution algorithm and a entropy reduction principle node module partition algorithm, and the$K$-dimensional structural information solution algorithm is utilized to further cluster the internal nodes of the partition module. Moreover, normalized structural information and network node partition similarity are introduced to analyze the correctness and similarity degree of clustering results. Finally, security analysis and theoretical analysis indicate that this scheme not only guarantees the correctness of the clustering results but also improves the security of private information in SIoT. Experimental evaluation and analysis shows that the clustering results of this scheme have higher efficiency and reliability.

Ranked keyword search has gained Ranked keyword search has gained traction due to its attractive properties such as flexibility and accessibility. However, most existing ranked keyword search schemes ignore the semantic associations between the documents and queries. To solve this challenging issue in cloud-assisted edge computing, we first design theSemantic-awareRankedMulti-keywordSearch (SRMS) scheme by adopting the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model and the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT)-based secret sharing mechanism. Considering that the cloud server may be malicious, we implement a basic verification mechanism in SRMS to verify the correctness and completeness of search results and extend this verification mechanism in cloud-assisted edge computing scenarios. Formal security analysis proves that SRMS and extended result verification mechanisms are secure in both the known ciphertext model and the known background model. Extensive experiments using the real-world dataset demonstrate that SRMS is efficient and practical.

To ensure the security of images outsourced to the malicious cloud without affecting searchability on such outsourced (typically encrypted) images, one could use privacy-preserving Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) primitive. However, conventional privacy-preserving CBIR schemes based on Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) are not capable of supporting efficient fine-grained access control and result verification simultaneously. Therefore, in this article, we propose aVerifiableFine-grained encryptedImageRetrieval scheme in theMulti-owner multi-user settings (VFIRM). VFIRM first utilizes a novel polynomial-based access strategy to provide efficient fine-grained access control. Then, it employs the dual secure$k$-nearest neighbor technique to distribute distinct keys to different data owners and data users, and finally implements an adapted homomorphic MAC technique to check the correctness of search results. Our formal security analysis shows that VFIRM is non-adaptive semantic secure if the client's search key is generated randomly and keeps in secret. Our empirical experiments using two real-world datasets (i.e., Caltech101 and Corel5k) demonstrate the practicality of VFIRM.

The applications of social Internet of Things (SIoT) with large numbers of intelligent devices provide a novel way for social behaviors. Intelligent devices share images according to the groups of their specified owners. However, sharing images may cause privacy disclosure when the images are illegally distributed without owners’ permission. To tackle this issue, combining blind watermark with additive secret sharing technique, we propose a lightweight and privacy-preserving image sharing (LPIS) scheme with illegal distributor detection in SIoT. Specifically, the query user’s authentication information is embedded in two shares of the transformed encrypted image by using discrete cosine transform (DCT) and additive secret sharing technique. The robustness against attacks, such as JPEG attack and the least significant bit planes (LSBs) replacement attacks, are improved by modifying 1/8 of coefficients of the transformed image. Moreover, we adopt two edge servers to provide image storage and authentication information embedding services for reducing the operational burden of clients. As a result, the identity of the illegal distributor can be confirmed by the watermark extraction of the suspicious image. Finally, we conduct security analysis and ample experiments. The results show that LPIS is secure and robust to prevent illegal distributors from modifying images and manipulating the embedded information before unlawful sharing.

Large amounts of data are widely stored in cyberspace. Not only can they bring much convenience to people’s lives and work, but they can also assist the work in the information security field, such as microexpression recognition and sentiment analysis in the criminal investigation. Thus, it is of great significance to recognize and analyze the sentiment information, which is usually described by different modalities. Due to the correlation among different modalities data, multimodal can provide more comprehensive and robust information than unimodal in data analysis tasks. The complementary information from different modalities can be obtained by multimodal fusion methods. These approaches can process multimodal data through fusion algorithms and ensure the accuracy of the information used for subsequent classification or prediction tasks. In this study, a two-level multimodal fusion (TlMF) method with both data-level and decision-level fusion is proposed to achieve the sentiment analysis task. In the data-level fusion stage, a tensor fusion network is utilized to obtain the text-audio and text-video embeddings by fusing the text with audio and video features, respectively. During the decision-level fusion stage, the soft fusion method is adopted to fuse the classification or prediction results of the upstream classifiers, so that the final classification or prediction results can be as accurate as possible. The proposed method is tested on the CMU-MOSI, CMU-MOSEI, and IEMOCAP datasets, and the empirical results and ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of TlMF in capturing useful information from all the test modalities.

The mobile crowdsensing (MCS) technology with a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices provides an economic and efficient solution to participation in coordinated large-scale sensing tasks. Edge computing powers MCS to form the mobile edge crowdsensing (MECS) framework. Privacy disclosure of sensing data in multiple stages is a significant challenge in the MECS. To tackle this issue, combining machine learning with game theory, in this article, we propose an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled three-party game (ATG) framework for guaranteed data privacy in the MECS of IoT. Specifically, based on the random forest classifier and the k-anonymity algorithm, we propose a classification-anonymity model that effectively guarantees the privacy of sensitive data. Moreover, we construct a three-party game model for analyzing the data privacy leakage in different phases in the MECS. Finally, we conduct numerical and theoretical analyses and ample simulations. The results indicate that the ATG framework is effective and efficient, and better suited to the MECS of IoT.

Nowadays, network intrusions have brought greater impact in a large scale. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have been a recent research hotspot for both the industry and the academic. However, due to the dynamic characteristics of network traffic, it is challenging to extract significant features and identify the traffic types. This paper focuses on applying deep learning methods to feature extraction. Specifically, an IDS model is proposed based on autoencoder and long short-term memory (LSTM) cell. The overall architecture of the intrusion detection model includes a feature extractor, a classifier, and an evaluation block. Different structures of the feature extraction model have been discussed and researched. Experiments conducted on the UNSW-NB15 dataset produce satisfactory result. A number of selected metrics such as accuracy and false alarm rate are adopted to evaluate the detection performance. Simulation results indicate that our model works better than competing machine learning methods and achieves accuracy of over 92%.

The arrival of 5G has accelerated the development of the Internet of things and vehicular technology, which often need to transmit large amounts of data through wireless networks. Modulation classification plays an important role in wireless communication. Recent years, deep learning has been applied to solve the modulation classification problem and achieved good classification results. At present, almost all the papers that use deep learning to solve modulation classification are in Gaussian White noise environment. However, the error source mainly comes from non-Gaussian noise in practical wireless communication. In this paper, a modulation classification method in non-Gaussian environment based on Deep Learning is proposed. The proposed algorithm can effectively suppress the sharp pulse in non-Gaussian noise and improve the modulation recognition accuracy. MPSK and MQAM signals which are difficult to distinguish are adopted in the simulation experiment. The simulation results show that validity of the proposed method. At the same time, experiments show that this method is robust to the characteristic exponent of noise.

With the rapid digitalization of various industries, mobile crowdsensing (MCS), an intelligent data collection and processing paradigm of the industrial Internet of Things, has provided a promising opportunity to construct powerful industrial systems and provide industrial services. The existing unified privacy strategy for all sensing data results in excessive or insufficient protection and low quality of crowdsensing services (QoCS) in MCS. To tackle this issue, in this article we propose a personalized privacy protection (PERIO) framework based on game theory and data encryption. Initially, we design a personalized privacy measurement algorithm to calculate users' privacy level, which is then combined with game theory to construct a rational uploading strategy. Furthermore, we propose a privacy-preserving data aggregation scheme to ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and real-timeness. Theoretical analysis and ample simulations with real trajectory dataset indicate that the PERIO scheme is effective and makes a reasonable balance between retaining high QoCS and privacy.

It is enormously challenging to achieve a satisfactory balance between quality of service (QoS) and users’ privacy protection along with measuring privacy disclosure in social Internet of Things (IoT). We propose a privacy-preserving personalized service framework (Persian) based on static Bayesian game to provide privacy protection according to users’ individual security requirements in social IoT. Our approach quantifies users’ individual privacy preferences and uses fuzzy uncertainty reasoning to classify users. These classification results facilitate trustworthy cloud service providers (CSPs) in providing users with corresponding levels of services. Furthermore, the CSP makes a strategic choice with the goal of maximizing reputation through playing a decision-making game with potential adversaries. Our approach uses Shannon information entropy to measure the degree of privacy disclosure according to the probability of game mixed strategy equilibrium. Experimental results show that Persian guarantees QoS and effectively protects user privacy despite the existence of adversaries.

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) have become a strong tool to alarm attacks in computer and communication systems. Machine learning, especially deep learning, has made huge success in fields of industry and academic. Network intrusion activity can be a time series event. In this paper, we adopt a time-related deep learning approach to detect network intrusions. A stacked sparse autoencoder (SSAE) is first built to extract the features with the greedy layer-wise strategy. And then, we propose a time- related intrusion detection system based on the variants of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). We study the performance of proposed approach on the binary classification with a benchmark dataset UNSW- NB15. Based on the study of parameter time steps, it is proved that our time- related model is effective for intrusion detection. The experiment results show that the accuracy of the proposed approach reaches over 98% and the false alarm rate is as low as 1.8%. The performance of our model is superior to that of the standard RNN- based approach and approaches based on Deep Neural Network and shallow machine learning.

The ever-growing demand for electrical energy of sensing devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to generating large amounts of electricity consumption data. Electricity service providers often use wireless sensor networks to collect sensing devices' electricity consumption data for statistical analysis, so as to provide sensing devices with improved electrical services. As an important data mining technique, while data clustering excels in dealing with such massive data, it imposes the risk of privacy disclosure in the process of data clustering. In an effort of solving this problem, Blum et al. proposed a differential privacy k-means algorithm, effectively preventing privacy disclosure. However, the availability of data clustering results is reduced due to the data distortion in Blum's algorithm. In this paper, we propose a privacy and availability data clustering (PADC) scheme based on k -means algorithm and differential privacy, which enhances the selection of the initial center points and the distance calculation method from other points to center point. Moreover, PADC attempts to reduce the outlier effect through detecting outliers during the clustering process. Security analysis indicates that our scheme satisfies the goal of differential privacy and prevents privacy information disclosure. Meanwhile, performance evaluation shows that our scheme, at the same privacy level, improves the availability of clustering results compared to the existing differential privacy k-means algorithms, suggesting that our proposed PADC scheme outperforms others for intelligent electrical service in IoT.

Mobile crowdsensing as a novel service schema of the Internet of Things (IoT) provides an innovative way to implement ubiquitous social sensing. How to establish an effective mechanism to improve the participation of sensing users and the authenticity of sensing data, protect the users’ data privacy, and prevent malicious users from providing false data are among the urgent problems in mobile crowdsensing services in IoT. These issues raise a gargantuan challenge hindering the further development of mobile crowdsensing. In order to tackle the above issues, in this paper, we propose a reliable hybrid incentive mechanism for enhancing crowdsensing participations by encouraging and stimulating sensing users with both reputation and service returns in mobile crowdsensing tasks. Moreover, we propose a privacy preserving data aggregation scheme, where the mediator and/or sensing users may not be fully trusted. In this scheme, differential privacy mechanism is utilized through allowing different sensing users to add noise data, then employing homomorphic encryption for protecting the sensing data, and finally uploading ciphertext to the mediator, who is able to obtain the collection of ciphertext of the sensing data without actual decryption. Even in the case of partial sensing data leakage, differential privacy mechanism can still ensure the security of the sensing user’s privacy. Finally, we introduce a novel secure multiparty auction mechanism based on the auction game theory and secure multiparty computation, which effectively solves the problem of prisoners’ dilemma incurred in the sensing data transaction between the service provider and mediator. Security analysis and performance evaluation demonstrate that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient.

Due to the popularity of social networks and human-carried/human-affiliated devices with sensing abilities, like smartphones and smart wearable devices, a novel application was necessitated recently to organize group activities by learning historical data gathered from smart devices and choosing invitees carefully based on their personal interests. We proposed a private and efficient social activity invitation framework. Our main contributions are ( 1 ) defining a novel friendship to reduce the communication/update cost within the social network and enhance the privacy guarantee at the same time; ( 2 ) designing a strong privacy-preserving algorithm for graph publication, which addresses an open concern proposed recently; ( 3 ) presenting an efficient invitee-selection algorithm, which outperforms the existing ones. Our simulation results show that the proposed framework has good performance. In our framework, the server is assumed to be untrustworthy but can nonetheless help users organize group activities intelligently and efficiently. Moreover, the new definition of the friendship allows the social network to be described by a directed graph. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to publish a directed graph in a differentially private manner with an untrustworthy server.

Secure e-mail standards, such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (S/MIME), apply cryptographic algorithms to provide secure and private e-mail services over the public Internet. In this article, we first review a number of cryptographic ciphers, trust and certificate systems, and key management systems and infrastructures widely used in secure e-mail standards and services. We then focus on the discussion of several essential security and privacy issues, such as cryptographic cipher selection and operation sequences, in both PGP and S/MIME. This work tries to provide readers a comprehensive impression of the security and privacy provided in the current secure e-mail services.

Information security and privacy have traditionally been ensured with data encryption techniques. Generic data encryption standards, such as DES, RSA, AES, are not very efficient in the encryption of multimedia contents due to the large volume. In order to address this issue, different image/video encryption methodologies have been developed. These methodologies encrypt only the key parameters of image/video data instead of encrypting it as a bitstream. Joint compression-encryption is a very promising direction for image/video encryption. Nowadays, researchers start to utilize information hiding techniques to enhance the security level of data encryption methodologies. Information hiding conceals not only the content of the secret message, but also its very existence. In terms of the amount of data to be embedded, information hiding methodologies can be classified into low bitrate and high bitrate algorithms. In terms of the domain for embedding, they can be classified into spatial domain and transform domain algorithms. Different categories of information hiding methodologies, as well as data embedding and watermarking strategies for digital video contents, will be reviewed. A joint cryptograph-steganography methodology, which combines both encryption and information hiding techniques to ensure patient information security and privacy in medical images, is also presented.