Internet of Things (IoT) enabled smart homes to have made our daily lives easier, but these conveniences have also introduced security concerns. IoT devices hold security risks as well as smart home hubs and gateways. Gateways present...

Open Government Data (OGD) promotes transparency, innovation, and value creation that makes information gathered by the government about the city and community open to all. The City of Cincinnati Open Government Data Portal allows...

This is an ongoing research project focused on creating a framework for capturing various artifacts concerning Internet of Things devices. Research has shown a severe lack of frameworks focusing on collecting data from and about IoT...

Signature-based intrusion detection methods report high accuracy with a very low false alarm rate. However, they do not perform well when faced with new or emerging threats. In this work we are studying the application of a specific...

This study proposes enhanced oversight of smart homes by leveraging the social networks of homeowners to co-monitor for emergencies, while being mindful of privacy preserving features necessary for adoption. A pilot co-design workshop...

The paper focuses on exploring the social networks of technology caregivers and caregivees and also work on learning their preferred mode of information exchange. Responses from the participants of the study will throw light on the...

Previous studies have offered a variety of explanations on the relationship between democracy and the internet. However, most of these studies concentrate on regions, specific states or authoritarian regimes. No study has investigated...

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends that organizations perform cyber risk assessments regularly to identify security vulnerabilities and to control levels of exposure to threats. We discuss a method to...

This paper looks at the opportunities and challenges of implementing blockchain technology across medical sector and provides a clear view which can enable blockchain for more extents. After a notable research on underlying blockchain...

During a crisis, people who are in an emergency can not report their need to the 911 system, because of the huge number of calls, so people tend to use social media to ask for help. The 911 system until this time doesn't have a tool...

This paper attempts to predict property crime with statistical theory as well as Python machine learning algorithm and report the difference. Property crimes include charge codes related to burglary or breaking entry, theft and unauthorized...

Cyberspace is one of the most complex systems ever built by humans. The utilization of cybertechnology resources are used ubiquitously by many, but sparsely understood by the majority of the users. In the past, cyberattacks were usually...

This research focuses on two fundamental aspects of hot spot policing that have been widely neglected by previous scholarly research. These aspects include the adequate concentration of crime at a smaller geographical unit to be considered...

The current rapid growth in the computer and internet development has ushered in numerous cybersecurity challenges which are constantly evolving with time. The current cybersecurity solutions are no longer optimal in tackling these...

Small office home office networks have become a target for many threat actors, hackers and cyber attackers and hence there is an urgent need to secure the network from such attackers. Most small office home office network users do...

In a world where technology continues to vastly grow and improve, IoT devices have increasingly become more and more a part of people's everyday lives. Although that is the case there is a need to understand how to better use these...

Online reviews have become very popular these days. Every single thing that we buy is dependent on the reviews. Previously, people used to review movies only. Now, with the evolution of online shopping, people started reviewing electronic...