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Title
Attacking Computer Security from the Perspective of Educators, Users, and Analysts
Description
As computers and the Internet have become integral to daily life, the potential gains from exploiting these resources have increased significantly. The global landscape is now rife with highly skilled wrongdoers seeking to steal from and disrupt society. In order to safeguard society and its infrastructure, a comprehensive approach to research is essential. This work aims to enhance security from three unique viewpoints by expanding the resources available to educators, users, and analysts. For educators, a capture the flag as-a-service was developed to support cybersecurity education. This service minimizes the skill and time needed to establish the infrastructure for hands-on hacking experiences for cybersecurity students. For users, a tool called CloakX was created to improve online anonymity. CloakX prevents the identification of browser extensions by employing both static and dynamic rewriting techniques, thwarting contemporary methods of detecting installed extensions and thus protecting user identity. Lastly, for cybersecurity analysts, a tool named Witcher was developed to automate the process of crawling and exercising web applications while identifying web injection vulnerabilities. Overall, these contributions serve to strengthen security education, bolster privacy protection for users, and facilitate vulnerability discovery for cybersecurity analysts.
Date Created
2023
Contributors
- Trickel, Erik (Author)
- Doupe, Adam (Thesis advisor)
- Shoshitaishvili, Yan (Thesis advisor)
- Bao, Tiffany (Committee member)
- Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
167 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.187772
Level of coding
minimal
Cataloging Standards
Note
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2023
Field of study: Computer Science
System Created
- 2023-06-07 12:26:42
System Modified
- 2023-06-07 12:26:47
- 1 year 5 months ago
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