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Operating Systems Operate

When I got into this business, the distribution of operating systems was completely different from today.  People had personal computers but there were also mainframes and...

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October 15, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf Research Issues Special Issue 0

Reviewing Basics

A journal lives and dies not just by the people that submit to it, but the reviewers who read the papers and determine if they’re fit...

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October 12, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal 0

DTRAP Special Issue on Security & Privacy for Covid-19

Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) is a peer-reviewed journal that targets the prevention, identification, mitigation, and elimination of digital threats. DTRAP aims to bridge the...

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September 17, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal Special Issue 0

DTRAP Special Issue on the Lifecycle of IoT (In)security

The IoT promises substantive socioeconomic benefits, but the low margin on many IoT devices means that, like other markets focused on the first mover advantage of...

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September 15, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal Special Issue 6

Special Issue on Vulnerabilities

Call for Papers Digital Threats: Research and Practice Special Issue on Vulnerabilities Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) is a peer-reviewed journal that targets the prevention,...

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August 28, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal Special Issue 1

Digital Threats…to the Internet

 The Internet was created to survive a nuclear attack.  It’s distributed, cooperative, and generally finds its way around breakpoints.  The goal is for constant uptime, for...

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August 26, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal 0

False Positive/False Negative

I posted about the Base Rate Fallacy earlier this summer. I wanted to expand this discussion and talk about why I think False Positives and False...

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August 19, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal Research Issues 0

Special Issue on Challenges and Trends in Malware Analysis

CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Threats: Research and PracticeSpecial Issue on Challenges and Trends in Malware Analysis Guest EditorsRicardo J. Rodríguez, Universidad de Zaragoza, SpainXabier Ugarte-Pedrero, Cisco...

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August 6, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal Special Issue 0

Trust… But Verify

As researchers or cybersecurity professionals, we often use tools that other people wrote.  Like… Ghidra, ClamAV, snort, tcpdump, wireshark… I could go on for a while...

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August 3, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf Research Issues 0

Special Issue on Actionable Information

CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Threats: Research and PracticeSpecial Issue on Actionable Information for Digital Threat Discoveryusing Contextualized Data or Multi Sensor Data Fusion Guest EditorsS. S....

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July 30, 2020 by Leigh Metcalf DTRAP Journal Special Issue 0
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