[agents] cfp: [Computers] Special Issue "Information Hiding, Network Steganography, and Covert Channels" (Scopus: 2.28)

[Blink Yu]

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Title:"Information Hiding, Network Steganography, and Covert Channels"
Guest Editor:
Dr. Luca Caviglione
Guest Editor
National Research Council of Italy, Genova, Italy
Interests: Information Hiding; Wireless Networks; Cloud and Networking
Dr. Steffen Wendzel
Guest Editor
Worms University of Applied Sciences, Worms, Germany
Interests: network information hiding; IoT; networking; information
security; data mining; machine learning
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Mazurczyk
Guest Editor
Fern Universitaet in Hagen, Hagen, Germany
Interests: information hiding; network security; bio-inspired cybersecurity
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2020.
More detailed:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/InformationHiding_NetworkSteganography_CovertChannels


Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Information hiding techniques and network covert channels are becoming
fundamental to assess the security characteristics of the Internet. On
the one hand, they can be used as offensive tools to empower malware,
for instance, to bypass security policies of infected nodes, to secretly
exfiltrate data towards remote command and control facilities, or to
orchestrate a botnet or launch an attack without being detected by
de-facto standard security tools. On the other hand, information hiding
and network covert channels can be used to enforce copyright of digital
artifacts via watermarking, trace network flows for traffic engineering
purposes, and implement privacy enhancing services. From this
perspective, this Special Issue aims at collecting new work addressing
different aspects of information hiding and network covert channels.

Authors are invited to submit original work on (but not limited to) the
following topics:

Model detection techniques and the mitigation of information
hiding-capable threats;
Colluding application attacks and exfiltration techniques;
New mechanisms to orchestrate botnets and hide data exfiltration;
Novel detection techniques for network covert channels, with an emphasis
on scalability;
Advanced network covert channels, for instance, those leveraging
reversible steganographic methods;
Information hiding for obfuscation, anti-forensics techniques, and
covert data storage;
Watermarking of network flows for traffic engineering and security;
Privacy enhancing frameworks based on information hiding.

Dr. Luca Caviglione
Dr. Steffen Wendzel
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Mazurczyk
Guest Editors

Keywords

Information hiding
Network security
Steganography
Malware obfuscation
Covert channels
Privacy enhancing technologies

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