Today's Internet Research Articles

Smart Safe Deposit Box Based on Internet of Things

The development of Internet of Things technology today is overgrowing in various fields, one of which is security. Safe-deposit box system is considered less safe because there is no warning to the owner. This study proposes a safe deposit box system that has a token security feature based on the internet of things. This system uses a webcam that functions to take pictures automatically. The image is sent to the server via the FTP protocol. It has two levels of users, namely admin, and guest. This system has a warning alarm, and notifications feature that works when the safe door is opened by force. Keyword: internet of things, safe deposit box

The Improving Students’ Mathematics Results and Interest Through Online-Based Flipped Classroom Models

People know that the internet today has become an integral part of the lifestyle of various Indonesian community groups, but the results of surveys conducted by the Indonesian Internet Network Organizing Association are known to have access to educational pages are still very lacking. The online-based flipped classroom learning model is packaged to appeal to students and is a learning that adapts online learning in times of pandemic by directing students to utilize the internet for learning. This study was a classroom action research by applying online-based flipped classroom model to improve Students’ Mathematics Result And Interest. The classroom action research was done in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, action, observation, and reflection. The findings of this research revealed that the online-based flipped classroom model could improve students’ mathematics results and interest. At the end of the first cycle, the students’ mathematics result was still in the medium category and increased at the end of the second cycle, which students’ mathematics result has been in high category, and students’ mathematics interest has been more than 80% that is reaching the expected target.

Coevolution of Blockchain and Internet of things: Applications and Opportunities

Due to a shortage of storage and poor processing speed, a network consisting of lightweight computers such as IoT has issues. Unfortunately, these problems make the implementation of solid protection solutions significantly more difficult, which decreases network security efficiency. A secure blockchain is ideal for IoT use cases that struggle with poor protection. An improvement in stability, lightness, and reliability of the IoT network is being pursued by blockchains use in IoT. Today's Internet of Things (IoT) applications are lacking in built-in protection technology, which puts out various security flaws and privacy issues. Blockchain is an effective technology, thus the open and autonomous technology behind it, blockchain, is a successful approach. This paper explores the ways in which blockchain technologies can be integrated into the Internet of Things

A Novel Homomorphic Encryption based RSA Algorithm for Machine Learning

In today's internet world the use of Machine Learning as A Service (MLaaS) is increasing day by day especially automated Machine Learning. In which users upload their dataset and auto Machine Learning (ML) will develop models after studying dataset. Due to this, the risk of compromising of privacy of users is also high. So, to secure data on a cloud a new approach is present in this paper. In which, we have been using homomorphic encryption (HE) based Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) algorithm to encrypt the data and Azure automated ML is used to develop models. Three different datasets are first encrypted by using the Homomorphic Encryption (HE) based Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) algorithm and then uploaded to the Azure automated Machine Learning (ML) platform. The accuracy of machine learning models developed using encrypted data is compared with machine learning models developed using unencrypted datasets.

Exercise? I thought you said 'Extra Fries’: Leveraging Sentence Demarcations and Multi-hop Attention for Meme Affect Analysis

Today's Internet is awash in memes as they are humorous, satirical, or ironic which make people laugh. According to a survey, 33% of social media users in age bracket [13-35] send memes every day, whereas more than 50% send every week. Some of these memes spread rapidly within a very short time-frame, and their virality depends on the novelty of their (textual and visual) content. A few of them convey positive messages, such as funny or motivational quotes; while others are meant to mock/hurt someone's feelings through sarcastic or offensive messages. Despite the appealing nature of memes and their rapid emergence on social media, effective analysis of memes has not been adequately attempted to the extent it deserves. Recently, in SemEval'20, a pioneering attempt has been made in this direction by organizing a shared task on `Memotion Analysis' (meme emotion analysis). As expected, the competition attracted more than 500 participants with the final submission of [23-32] systems across three sub-tasks. In this paper, we attempt to solve the same set of tasks suggested in the SemEval'20 - Memotion Analysis competition. We propose a multi-hop attention-based deep neural network framework, called MHA-Meme, whose prime objective is to leverage the spatial-domain correspondence between the visual modality (an image) and various textual segments to extract fine-grained feature representations for classification. We evaluate MHA-Meme on the `Memotion Analysis' dataset for all three sub-tasks - sentiment classification, affect classification, and affect class quantification. Our comparative study shows state-of-the-art performances of MHA-Meme for all three tasks compared to the top systems that participated in the competition. Unlike all the baselines which perform inconsistently across all three tasks, MHA-Meme outperforms baselines in all the tasks on average. Moreover, we validate the generalization of MHA-Meme on another set of manually annotated test samples and observe it to be consistent. Finally, we establish the interpretability of MHA-Meme.

Too little too late?

ABSTRACT The “competitive strength” of a company in the digital economy is becoming increasingly more reliant on the data it has at its disposal. As such, personal data has been described as “the new oil of the internet and the new currency of the digital world”. The emergence of personal data as “currency” has reinvigorated the development of privacy and consumer protection laws However, competition law has sought to maintain a strict level of separation between what falls within the “scope” of antitrust enforcement and matters deemed “wholly or partially” unrelated to competition. In highlighting the anti-competitive effects created by the vast databases of personal and often sensitive information (Big Data) being acquired by today's dominant internet platforms. this paper seeks to argue that a more refined and comprehensive analysis of the competitive effects of data in merger review is lacking and is required as a matter of urgency.

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UNDERGRADUATES USE OF INTERNET FOR SOCIO-ACADEMIC REASONS

The internet today is a universal entity whose nature cannot be quickly defined. The internet has provided essential services in the education sector. Perhaps, people in academia rely heavily on the internet for academic purposes. However, observation suggests that a large number of students use the internet for purposes other than academics. The present study aimed to determine the differences in internet use for social or academic purposes among undergraduates in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. A total of two hundred undergraduates comprising male and female drawn from three tertiary institutions participated in the study. The participants completed a self-report measure on internet use for academic and non-academic purposes. A 2x2 contingency Chi-square analysis revealed that female participants used the internet more for non-academic purposes when compared to their male counterparts. A one-way ANOVA showed that the participants differ significantly on the use of the internet for academic purposes according to their levels of study. Discussion and conclusions are discussed.

Security and Privacy of Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing Using RSA

Today's world internet is being used by almost everyone. Numerous file exchanges take place online including many official documents. These files require some sort of security mechanisms while being transmitted over the Internet. Technology has done a great deal for changing the way we live and do business today. In the fast-moving world we need something essential for fast computation. Along with the popular use of computer, Information security has also become one of the problems which need to be solved. Many security issues like the malware authors, information leakage, endangerment and unauthorized exploitation need to be taken into account. To control those issues, crypto-security is necessary. More Applications started to use Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA). However, Since RSA on large blocks is computationally intensive and largely byte-parallel. System will parallel perform the encryption and decryption process in a distributed environment and the performance analysis shows improvement in terms of execution time and provides the security.

On Capturing DDoS Traffic Footprints on the Internet

While distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are easy to launch and are becoming more damaging, the defense against DDoS attacks often suffers from the lack of relevant knowledge of the DDoS traffic, including the paths the DDoS traffic has used, the source addresses (spoofed or not) that appear along each path, and the amount of traffic per path or per source. Though IP traceback and path inference approaches could be considered, they are either expensive and hard to deploy or inaccurate. We propose PathFinder, a service that a DDoS defense system can use to obtain the footprints of the DDoS traffic to the victim. PathFinder employs an architecture that is easy to implement and deploy on today's Internet, a PFTrie data structure that introduces multiple design features to log traffic at line rate, and streaming and zooming mechanisms that facilitates the storage and transmission of DDoS footprints more efficiently. Our evaluation shows that PathFinder can significantly improve the efficacy of a DDoS defense system, its PFTrie data structure is fast and has a manageable overhead, and its streaming and zooming mechanisms significantly reduce the delay and overhead in transmitting DDoS footprints.

State-of-the-Art Survey of Quantum Cryptography

In today Internet era, confidential information transmitted over an insecure channel. With the significant development in the area of quantum computing, there is a need for unconditional security in confidential information. Quantum key distribution protocols are proven secure if all devices are perfect (in terms of technologies and proper protocol operations). The major challenges in quantum communication are secret key rate, distance, cost and size of QKD devices. The purpose of this survey article is to carry out a systematic review in the area of quantum cryptography by covering various aspects of non-deterministic quantum key distribution protocols, quantum secure direct communication, semi-quantum key distribution, secure multiparty communication protocol, post-quantum cryptography and device-independent cryptography techniques. In addition, we also discussed various experimental work carried out in the area of quantum cryptography, various attacks and challenges relative to the paradigm shift from classical cryptography to quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography will become a future replacement of classical cryptography techniques after the development of the first physical quantum computer.

Information-Centric Networking in Wireless Environments: Security Risks and Challenges

Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as a paradigm to cope with the lack of built-in security primitives and efficient mechanisms for content distribution of today's Internet. However, deploying ICN in a wireless environment poses a different set of challenges compared to a wired environment, especially when it comes to security. In this paper, we present the security issues that may arise and the attacks that may occur from different points of view when ICN is deployed in wireless environments. The discussed attacks may target both applications and the ICN network itself by exploiting elements of the ICN architecture, such as content names and in-network content caches. Furthermore, we discuss potential solutions to the presented issues and countermeasures to the presented attacks. Finally, we identify future research opportunities and directions.

Research Commentary on IS/IT Role in Emergency and Pandemic Management

IS/IT plays an important role in our everyday life, especially in today's Internet era. This article discusses the roles of IS/IT in providing services and support on information gathering, analysis, and management during major public emergencies and pandemic crises such as the battle against the new coronavirus. The five selected papers in this special issue introduce advanced methods on data collection and social media user analysis to deal with the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper also presents future research directions on the use of IS/IT in emergency and pandemic management such as IS control and governance, intelligent health care, enhancing people's lives and mental health, and knowledge management.

Repurchase Intention Among Ghanaian Online Consumers: Perceived Shopping Value Approach

With the rise in technology and the influx of diverse goods and services readily available on the internet today, online shopping has become an everyday thing in the global space through the use of technology-based channels like smartphones, tablets, laptops and others alike. Despite the incidence and daily growth this global phenomena, not all counties or parts of the world have been able to fully grasp the idea and use it to their benefit. A good example being Ghana, although close to 50% of the population has access to the internet as of January 2020 (DataReportal 2020) with about 15.1 million smartphone devices (Omondi 2020) many Ghanaians prefer traditional marketing to electronic commerce (e-commerce). With the above being noted, it is of no doubts that the online shopping community in Ghana is one that requires attention and retention by online goods and service providers. Making it a daunting task on online goods and service providers to focus on ways maintain this market and equally figure out ways to get on board new customers. This is in line with Shin et al. (2013) , who asserted that online shopping behavior involves encouraging an online consumer to purchase and repurchase a product from the same online retailer. Many researchers, authors and marketers have researched factors that influence an online consumer’s repurchases intention. This study has therefore been done after a look into past and existing literature which to a degree suggests that there hasn’t been research conducted in the area of online consumers’ repurchase intention from the same online retailer. Keywords: Online Shopping, E-commerce, Repurchase Intention, Consumer Behavior, Ghana DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-8-01 Publication date: April 30 th 2021

Effect of Various Coordinate Points on Social Media

Currently information technology has developed rapidly, many have implemented information technology in various fields. It is undeniable that Indonesian people often use social media to interact indirectly, for example uploading vacation photos. But with the rapid advancement of technology itself to find someone’s personal data on the internet today is not something difficult. Conscious or not, many internet users are ignorant of their privacy. What they do in the real world are sometimes all shared on social media in the form of photos or status updates, without choosing which ones can be seen by the public and which will not have a negative impact and can be dangerous for users of social media itself. On the one hand, the location of the presence of the user’s coordinate point is one sensitive information that may not every day other people need to know because it can endanger the user Other people know where the user is when the user posts a photo or status update, the user indirectly notifies where the User is at that time.

An evaluation of bottleneck bandwidth and round trip time and its variants

SummaryThe congestion control mechanism is one of the most important components in Internet, which guarantees network normal operation and prevents network from congestion collapse. It is noticed that traditional loss‐based algorithms are not moving data very well in today's Internet. To get channel resource highly utilized, such algorithms maintain a standing queue of packets at bottleneck and cause large transmission delay. Recently, effort has been devoted from academia and industry to design new solution which could achieve high throughput and low transmission delay simultaneously. There are several fruitful results such as the bottleneck bandwidth and round trip time (BBR) and Vivace, Copa, Cellular Controlled delay TCP (C2TCP). Among them, BBR is the most eminent one. There are other variant algorithms by modifying some parameters in BBR for possible improvement, and BBR has also evolved drastically into version 2 (BBRv2). In this work, a framework is implemented to evaluate the performance of these algorithms on ns3. Interested readers could test other congestion control algorithms or design new methods. Moreover, this work can work as reference for engineers to tune parameters in BBR or choose other solutions for their applications.

Leak in OpenSSL

The term “hacker” has been spread around the world and has always been considered as a threat when we use the internet. We often hear hackers deface websites’ contents and break into system to steal private and confidential information, such as account’s username and password, credit card numbers and others. This is definitely an unethical behavior of irresponsible people who mostly aims to gain profit. However the term hacker, on the contrary actually originates from an expert computer technicians who tries to access the system to debug and fix security problems of the system.
 Nowadays there are dozens of websites out there and some of those websites have low level of security. Hacker can easily break through their system and steal their private confidential data but just because these websites have low level security, that doesn’t mean that it is ethical to break into someone’s system and read their data. It goes the same when someone entering other people’s house because the door was left open by the owner.
 As web development grows rapidly, security has become an essential part to make the website more secure and reliable. This is when a group of people decided to make a collaborative project on the implementation of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) that is available to be used by everyone. This project is called as OpenSSl and has been used by most of the websites in the internet today. What if this OpenSSL, which has been trusted and implemented by 2/3rd of the websites all around the world can be breached? Definitely it will attract dozens of hackers all around the world to do something unimaginably dangerous.

Research and Implementation of Digital Microscope Image Acquisition System Based on Embedded Linux

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">With the rapid development of multimedia and Internet in today's society, embedded Linux system also involves many places, and the application of digital microscope is also reused in many industrial manufacturing areas. The main purpose of this paper is to complete the research and implementation of digital microscope image acquisition system based on Embedded Linux, including image acquisition card, logic function, hardware circuit design and image acquisition system. In this paper, the CMOS digital camera is used to connect the CMOS digital camera with the computer through the transmission network, so as to collect the data. In the image preprocessing, the adaptive method based on mean and variance is implemented to correct the gray level of the collected image to avoid high error. In the image registration, the registration algorithm is used to smooth the mosaic place. Then, Sobel algorithm is used to carry out the color transition step by step to eliminate the gap in the image and realize the microscopic image mosaic. The results are as follows: the overall design scheme of the system is designed; the circuit board of digital microscope image acquisition and processing unit based on Embedded Linux is realized; image mosaic is realized by using image preprocessing, registration algorithm and fusion technology, In order to improve the quality of digital microscope image acquisition; through the feasibility test of the system, it is concluded that the performance of the embedded Linux digital microscope image acquisition system proposed in this paper is good, which is worthy of wide application.</span>

Development of integrated marketing Internet communications in the activity of Ukrainian banks

In modern conditions the Internet is developing rapidly. Marketing communications on the Internet is one of the main elements of Internet marketing of banking institutions and an important element in establishing relationships with target audiences and managing them, informing customers, improving the image of the bank. It is determined that the Internet today covers the information, communication and logistics areas of marketing communications of banks. The paper identifies the areas of integrated marketing Internet-communications in the activities of banks and their main elements to present their characteristic. At the present stage of development of Internet-communications in activities banking, it is advisable for banking institutions to use advertising, digital and creative strategies. It was found that the current trends in the development of marketing communications on the Internet also indicate the growth of Internet-communications in social networks as an important mechanism for interesting the bank customers and forming interaction with them and the development by the bank of its website, its attractive design, updating information on it. The results of the study showed that the largest share of Internet users in Ukraine uses mobile phones or smartphones, the number of which is growing, which expands the capabilities of banks in the field of Internet-communications. It was established that the most active banks in the media space are banks with state share: JSC CB «PrivatBank», JSC «Oschadbank», JSC «Ukreximbank» and banks of foreign banking groups such as JSC «Raiffeisen Bank Aval», JSC «OTP BANK», JSC «ALFA-BANK». JSC «FUIB» is among the banks with private capital. At the same time, the largest media activity of banks in 2019 was observed in banks of foreign banking groups, and in 2019, 2021 by the number of messages in state-owned banks. The analysis of the collected marketing information showed that the largest number of messages from the leading banks of Ukraine by categories of media was observed in the Internet media, as the Internet is a convenient, cheap and effective communication channel in all areas activities. The expediency of using the Internet to promote banking products is also due to the fact that recently the effectiveness of traditional channels for disseminating information about banks and their products has decreased. Key words: integrated Internet-marketing communications, banks, Internet marketing, mediaactivity of banks, means of information dissemination

Service-oriented invisible numerical control application: architecture, implementation, and test

ABSTRACT CNC system has improved greatly upon machining precision and speed over the past six decades but remains vendor-proprietary and working in a stand-alone pattern. Open CNC aims to deal with the vendor-proprietary issue and numerous open CNC prototypes have been developed in the past three decades. But they are heterogeneous, low-flexible, and remain working in a stand-alone pattern. In today's Internet era, the stand-alone working pattern tends to evolve into cloud-based control pattern (cloud-CNC). On the basis of open CNC and cloud-CNC, our team proposes a novel CNC prototype called Invisible Numerical Control (INC). This paper aims to develop the INC application within the constraints of open CNC and cloud-CNC. Service-oriented paradigm is utilised to develop INC application at three levels. First, INC application is a software-as-a-service-style application. Second, CNC modules are exposed as services and CNC functionality is determined by service-oriented architecture. Third, INC application is developed using microservices architecture. Four autonomous INC microservices are defined and their mapping relationships are determined. All INC microservices are implemented as RESTful services and two complex INC microservices are implemented based on domain-driven design. A desktop client and its corresponding API gateway have been developed to test INC application.

RAP: A Light-Weight Privacy-Preserving Framework for Recommender Systems

In today's Internet, recommender systems play an indispensable role in helping users discover items of interests, such as products, books, movies and so on. However, a higher recommendation accuracy is commonly at the cost of more disclosure of user privacy. Thus, a wider adoption of recommender systems poses significant security and privacy concerns to users. In this article, we propose a light-weight privacy-preserving framework called <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">RAP</i> for recommender systems, which can protect user privacy while still ensuring a high recommendation accuracy. Instead of directly sending users’ private ratings to the recommender, users first conduct a local perturbation operation on private ratings, and then send the perturbed ratings to the recommender. The recommender can run recommendation algorithms directly over the perturbed ratings and return the results to users. Different from crypto-based methods, our perturbation and de-perturbation methods are linear operations. Thus, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">RAP</i> is light-weight and highly efficient in privacy protection. To be more rigorous, we formally prove that the order of recommendation accuracy will not decrease when our <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">RAP</i> framework is applied to any MF (Matrix Factorization)-based recommender systems. We also derive the closed-form expression for the degree of privacy preservation of our framework. Finally, we conduct extensive evaluations using large-scale real-world datasets to verify the effectiveness of our <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">RAP</i> framework and compare with other baseline algorithms. The results show that our <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">RAP</i> framework can improve the degree of privacy preservation from zero to over 0.5 for the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Movielens</i> dataset and 4 for the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Jester</i> dataset, and still maintain the approaching level of recommendation accuracy.