Covert channels are used for the secret transfer of information. Encryption only protects
communication from being decoded by unauthorised parties, whereas covert channels aim …

Network covert channels are used to hide communication inside network protocols. Various
techniques for covert channels have arisen in the past few decades. We surveyed and …

Describes Information Hiding in communication networks, and highlights their important
issues, challenges, trends, and applications. Highlights development trends and potential …

This paper introduces JitterBugs, a class of inline interception mechanisms that covertly
transmit data by perturbing the timing of input events likely to affect externally observable …

Context: Research at the intersection of cybersecurity, Machine Learning (ML), and Software
Engineering (SE) has recently taken significant steps in proposing countermeasures for …

The detection of covert timing channels is of increasing interest in light of recent practice on
the exploitation of covert timing channels over the Internet. However, due to the high …

There has been significant recent interest in covert communication using timing channels. In
network timing channels, information is leaked by controlling the time between …

The advanced development of computer networks and communication technologies has
made covert communications easier to construct, faster, undetectable and more secure than …

The exploration of advanced covert timing channel design is important to understand and
defend against covert timing channels. In this paper, we introduce a new class of covert …

By offering sophisticated services and centralizing a huge volume of personal data, modern
smartphones changed the way we socialize, entertain and work. To this aim, they rely upon …