NZCSC 2026 will be held on
Online round: 21st August - 30th Aug.
On campus rounds: 9th and 10th Oct.
The University of Waikato and the CROW group are pleased to partner with Symbiosis International University (SIU) for NZCSC 2026. The challenge will provide an opportunity for SIU students to showcase their skills on an international stage. SIU students will participate in the Round 0 of the cyber security challenge under the international category.
The International office of the University of Waikato has generously announced prizes worth 500 NZD to the top three participants from SIU.
The on-campus part of the NZCSC 2026 will take place over two days, Oct 9th and Oct 10th. As is usual, on the first day we will have talks from our invited and industry speakers, followed by a networking lunch, which will provide an opportunity for the participants to engage with each other and the industry attendees in a relaxed environment. Finally, we will have our side challenge based on cyber deception. The side challenge is an optional side quest and will not contribute towards the overall score for the NZCSC. The second day is when Round 1 and Round 2 will take place. Round 1 will be a Hack The Box style round followed by lunch after which we will have Round 2, which is a CTF similar to Round 0. The scores from Round 1 and Round 2 will be tallied to decide the overall winner.
Please note that Rounds 1 and 2 will be played on university machines to give everyone an equal footing. On the other hand you will need to bring your own machine for the side challenge if you decide to take part in it. Also note that for the side challenge as well as Rounds 1 and 2, AI use is not allowed. We trust that participants will abide by this policy. We do understand that it is difficult to define a clear boundary for what is AI and what is not AI, so we are drafting an AI use policy and our expectations around it for the on-campus rounds.
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CHALLENGE OVERVIEW
The CTF will consist of multiple challenges. Participants will compete to find hidden "flags" embedded within each challenge.
The topics that the challenges cover include, but are not limited to:
- Cryptography
- Steganography
- Web Application Security
- Forensic
RESOURCES
Tools
The tools that can be used for solving sepecific topics are listed below, but not limited to:
- Cryptography: dcode.fr
- Steganography: Audacity, GIMP
- Networking: Wireshark
- Forensic: hexdump, HexEditor e.g., Visual Studio Code with Hex Editor Extension, Volatility, GDB
- General Tools: Kali Linux, CyberChef
Linux and Python Tutorial
Cryptography Tutorial
Forensic Tutorial
Interesting External Channels
- John Hammond: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnHammond010/videos
- HackerSploit: https://www.youtube.com/c/HackerSploit/videos
- Cryptography for Everybody: https://www.youtube.com/c/CrypTool2/videos
- IppSec: https://www.youtube.com/c/ippsec/videos
- Networks - David Bombal: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidBombal/videos
- Forensics - DFIRScience: https://www.youtube.com/c/DFIRScience/videos
SOLUTIONS
New Zealand Cyber Security Challenge
What is NZCSC?
NZCSC is the New Zealand Cyber Security competition which is held annually. The competition is open to all New Zealanders and is designed to promote interest in cyber security and encourage students to pursue careers in this field.
What is a CTF?
A CTF (Capture The Flag) is a cyber security exercise consisting of multiple puzzles/challenges. Each puzzle has a flag hidden somewhere and the challenge is to find the flag. The flag usually is a sequence of alphanumeric characters. Once you find a flag you get some points. The objective is the find as many flags as possible and collect points.
Who can participate in NZCSC?
Anyone in New Zealand can participate in NZCSC.
Do I participate solo or in teams?
You only participate solo.
Each participant competing individually will be assigned to one of the following ranked categories:
- Open/Industry
- University
- High School
Is there a participation fee?
No. There is no fee to participate.
Can I win prizes?
Yes! More information coming soon.
Great! Where do I sign up?
More information coming soon.
The Waikato Cyber Security Research Group (CROW)
What we do
Cyber security (or simply systems security) is the practice of protecting systems, networks, and data from digital attacks, unauthorised access, damage, or theft. It involves implementing technologies, processes, and controls to secure access to information and services, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Cyber security is cross-sectional to computer science, ranging from hardware security to social engineering techniques.
Our group, Cybersecurity Researchers of Waikato (CROW), tackles pressing research problems and covers some of the most relevant areas in Cybersecurity, such as (alphabetical order):
Research areas
- Applied cryptography
- Honeypots, IDSes, and active sensing for attack characterisation
- Cyber deception
- Data provenance and sovereignty
- Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack and mitigation
- Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) Security
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Security
- Internet measurements and experimentation
- Internet scanning and network security assessment
- Machine Learning Approaches for Cybersecurity
- Malware Analysis and Detection, including Ransomware
- Privacy in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
- Routing security
- Software-defined networks (programmable data planes) for Network Security
Papers and courses
The key research group personnel is four faculty with expertise on the topics previously, complemented by a strong team of Research Programmers, PhD students, Master of Cybersecurity (MCS) students, and Honours students.
Our team expertise supports a range of cyber security papers/courses at all levels, including:
Our infrastructure
The infrastructure of our research group includes a spacious lab space regularly attended by the team, a powerful server to crunch large datasets (e.g. network traces and system logs), and a cluster of 40+ Internet-facing machines that we use for experimentation and measurements, including in demonstrations and practical work part of our lectures.
Community and partnerships
Since 2014, we have organised the NZ Cybersecurity Challenge, helping to spark interest in Cybersecurity in young students as well as provide a forum for the discussion of cybersecurity trends in NZ. It has attracted a large number of students every year, of all levels, industry participants, and sponsors, which help us grant awards for the winners.
Together with New Zealand industry partners, multi-national companies and international consortia, we work on discovering and disclosing vulnerabilities that expose user data to dangers in both systems and networks.
Our people
Associate Professor Marinho Barcellos
Senior Lecturer, Programme Lead Computer Science
Since October 2019 I have been with the University of Waikato. In the past, I worked at INF/UFRGS Federal University (Associate Professor, 2010–2019), UNISINOS University (Adjunct Professor, 1993–2008), PUC-RS University (2008–2009), as well as an Invited Adjunct Professor at UNAL, Colombia.
I have regularly contributed to the network research community by serving in multiple committees. I was the general co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2016 and have been serving as Program Committee co-chair of ACM CoNEXT 2022. I have contributed as a member of several Technical Program Committees of conferences: ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, ACM HotNets, ACM IMC, IFIP Networking, etc. I was a member of the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee 2017-2021, and have been a co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM CARES committee. I also contributed as a member of the steering committees of ACM CoNEXT and the PAM conference, and chairing the Advisory Board of the ACM PACM-NET journal.
I am fortunate to have supervised many bright students (and hope some new ones look for me in the future). Contact me if you are interested, but to be sure I am a good fit for you, please first read my recent papers and be ready to talk about the ones that interested you: it’s a proof-of-work without which you may not get a response :) If you are unaware of my work, I may not respond to your email.
Dr Vimal Kumar
Senior Lecturer
I studied Computer Science & Engineering at IP University in New Delhi before working for a couple of years with Computer Sciences Corporation in India. I moved to Missouri, US in 2008 for further study, where I worked on various problems surrounding secure data aggregation in sensor networks with Prof. Sanjay Madria. I received a PhD in Computer Science from the Missouri University of Science & Technology in 2014. My first academic position was with the University of West Florida in Pensacola after which I moved to University of Waikato in mid 2015, where I have been since, first as a Lecturer and then as a Senior Lecturer from 2020.
Dr Junaid Haseeb
Lecturer
My research mainly focus on capturing and analysing cyber attacks to understand their behavioural patterns and categorise attackers behind them. This includes working with cyber deception tools (Honeypots) and intrusion detection/prevention systems. I am also interested in applications of machine learning and formal methods.
Dr Farzana Zahid
Lecturer
Dr. Farzana Zahid's research focuses on the security of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Cloud Computing, and AI-enabled systems. Her work focuses on the analysis, design, and development of novel lightweight active security solutions to address sophisticated cyber-attacks and strengthen the security, resilience, and reliability of critical digital infrastructures through innovative and practical cybersecurity approaches. Her research interests also include the security and trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI, as well as the application of optimised machine learning techniques to enhance proactive cyber defence.
Students
- Pandu Konala, PhD
- Atthapan Daramas, PhD
- Dimeji Fayomi, PhD
- Thye Way Phua, PhD
- Ravjot Singh Samra, PhD
- Yasir Al Siyabi, PhD
- Zijing Zhang, PhD
- Mohamed Azeez, MCS
- Poonam Dhankhar, MCS
- Robinston Fernando, MCS
- Kevin Han, MCS
- Xiaoye Hua, MCS
- Ilija Jankovic, MCS
- Daniel McAlpine, MCS
- Nitin Nandal, MCS
- Bhim Rai, MCS
- Brendon Ranum, MCS
- Bharath Reddy, MCS
- Kiran Sadasivan, MCS
- Amith Sankar, MCS
- Wenjie Tong, MCS
- Peter Wanyonyi, MCS
- Chumao Wu, MCS
- Logan Cook, Honours
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Publications
2025
- Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge, Junaid Haseeb. 2025. Metadata Assisted Supply-Chain Attack Detection for Ansible. In Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIX - DBSec 2025, Katsikas, S., Shafiq, B. (eds.) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15722). Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96590-6_18
- Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge, Junaid Haseeb. 2026. Tracking Security Smell Diffusion Patterns in Ansible Playbooks Using Metadata. In Advances in Information and Computer Security - IWSEC 2025, Cid, C., Yanai, N. (eds.) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16208). Springer, Singapore. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4674-9_19
- Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge, Junaid Haseeb. 2025. A Framework for Measuring the Quality of Infrastructure-as-Code Scripts. CoRR abs/2502.03127, (2025). Retrieved from arxiv.org/abs/2502.03127
- Zijing Zhang, Vimal Kumar, Bernhard Pfahringer, Albert Bifet. 2025. AI-Enabled Automated Common Vulnerability Scoring from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Descriptions. In International Journal of Information Security. doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00922-z
2024
- Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Robi Malik, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros. 2024. Automatic Detection of Android Crypto Ransomware using Supervisor Reduction. In Discrete Events Dynamic Systems. doi.org/10.1007/s10626-024-00406-1
- Harpreet Kaur, Vimal Kumar, Atthapan Daramas. 2024. Detecting ransomware using system calls through transfer learning on a limited feature set accepted. In 25th International Web Information Systems Engineering conference - WISE 2024.
- Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Marinho Barcellos, Daniel Kopp, Oliver Hohlfeld, Echo Chan, Roland Dobbins, Christian Doerr, Christian Rossow, Daniel R. Thomas, Mattijs Jonker, Ricky Mok, Xiapu Luo, John Kristoff, Thomas Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, KC Claffy. 2024. The Age of DDoScovery: An Empirical Comparison of Industry and Academic DDoS Assessments. In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference - IMC 2024, accepted.
- Atthapan Daramas, Vimal Kumar, Marinho Barcellos. 2024. Quantifying Privacy in Cooperative Awareness Services Through Trajectory Reconstruction. In 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust - IEEE PST2024, accepted, pstnet.ca/pst2024/accepted-papers
- Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros, and Robi Malik. 2024. Android Crypto Ransomware System Call Dataset. doi.org/10.21227/95Y1-5H19
- Vimal Kumar, Juliette Mayo and Khadija Bahiss. 2024. ADMIn: Attacks on Dataset, Model and Input: A Threat Model for AI Based Software. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP, 2024. 10.5220/0012394100003648
- Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros, and Robi Malik. 2024. Real-time system call-based ransomware detection. Int. J. Inf. Sec. 23, 3 (2024), 1839–1858. doi.org/10.1007/S10207-024-00819-X
- Farzana Zahid, Matthew Kuo, Roopak Sinha, Gustavo, Funchal, Tiago Pedrosa, Paulo Leitao. 2024. Actively Detecting Multi-Scale Flooding Attacks & Attack Volumes in Resource-Constrained ICPS. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol 20. Issue 7. 10.1109/TII.2024.3383520
2023
- Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, and David Bainbridge. 2023. SoK: Static Configuration Analysis in Infrastructure as Code Scripts. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2023, Venice, Italy, 2023. IEEE, 281–288. doi.org/10.1109/CSR57506.2023.10224925
- Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2023. Provable Non-Frameability for 5G Lawful Interception. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec 2023, Guildford, United Kingdom, 29 May 2023 - 1 June 2023, 2023. ACM, 109–120. doi.org/10.1145/3558482.3581780
- Gustavo Silva Funchal, Farzana Zahid, Victória Melo, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, Tiago Pedrosa, Roopak Sinha, Fernando de la Prieta, and Paulo Leitão. 2023. An Intrusion Detection System Dataset for a Multi-Agent Cyber-Physical Conveyor System. In IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2023, Orlando, FL, USA, April 4-6, 2023, 2023. IEEE, 1–6. doi.org/10.1109/ICIT58465.2023.10143037
- Ravjot Singh Samra and Marinho Barcellos. 2023. DDoS2Vec: Flow-Level Characterisation of Volumetric DDoS Attacks at Scale. PACMNET 1, CoNEXT3 (2023), 13:1-13:25. doi.org/10.1145/3629135
2022
- Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2022. No Doppelgänger: Advancing Mobile Networks Against Impersonation in Adversarial Scenarios. In WiSec ’22: 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, San Antonio, TX, USA, May 16 - 19, 2022, 2022. ACM, 280–281. doi.org/10.1145/3507657.3529651
- Junaid Haseeb, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, Masood Mansoori, and Ian Welch. 2022. Probabilistic modelling of deception-based security framework using markov decision process. Comput. Secur. 115, (2022), 102599. doi.org/10.1016/J.COSE.2021.102599
- Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, Yuichi Hirose, Harith Al-Sahaf, and Ian Welch. 2022. Autoencoder-based feature construction for IoT attacks clustering. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 127, (2022), 487–502. doi.org/10.1016/J.FUTURE.2021.09.025
- Christopher Lorier, Matthew Luckie, Marinho Barcellos, and Richard Nelson. 2022. Shoehorn: Towards Portable P4 for Low Cost Hardware. In IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2022, Catania, Italy, June 13-16, 2022, 2022. IEEE, 1–9. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING55013.2022.9829819
- Fabrício M. Mazzola, Pedro de B. Marcos, and Marinho Barcellos. 2022. Light, camera, actions: characterizing the usage of IXPs’ action BGP communities. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2022, Roma, Italy, December 6-9, 2022, 2022. ACM, 196–203. doi.org/10.1145/3555050.3569143
- Fabrício M. Mazzola, Pedro de B. Marcos, Ignacio Castro, Matthew Luckie, and Marinho Barcellos. 2022. On the Latency Impact of Remote Peering. In Passive and Active Measurement - 23rd International Conference, PAM 2022, Virtual Event, March 28-30, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2022. Springer, 367–392. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98785-5_16
- Michael Tsai and Vimal Kumar. 2022. Listen to the Music: Evaluating the Use of Music in Audio Based Authentication. In Ubiquitous Security - Second International Conference, UbiSec 2022, Zhangjiajie, China, December 28-31, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science), 2022. Springer, 22–37. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9_2
- Farzana Zahid, Gustavo Silva Funchal, Victória Melo, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, Paulo Leitão, and Roopak Sinha. 2022. DDoS Attacks on Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Cross-Domain Taxonomy and Attack Vectors. In 20th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2022, Perth, Australia, July 25-28, 2022, 2022. IEEE, 214–219. doi.org/10.1109/INDIN51773.2022.9976172
- Farzana Zahid, Awais Tanveer, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, and Roopak Sinha. 2022. A systematic mapping of semi-formal and formal methods in requirements engineering of industrial Cyber-Physical systems. J. Intell. Manuf. 33, 6 (2022), 1603–1638. doi.org/10.1007/S10845-021-01753-8
- Zijing Zhang, Vimal Kumar, Michael Mayo, and Albert Bifet. 2022. Assessing Vulnerability from Its Description. In Ubiquitous Security - Second International Conference, UbiSec 2022, Zhangjiajie, China, December 28-31, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science), 2022. Springer, 129–143. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9_9.
2021
- Tristan Corrick and Vimal Kumar. 2021. Design and Architecture of Progger 3: A Low-Overhead, Tamper-Proof Provenance System. In Ubiquitous Security - First International Conference, UbiSec 2021, Guangzhou, China, December 28-31, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science), 2021. Springer, 189–202. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4_14
- Atthapan Daramas and Vimal Kumar. 2021. Searching on Non-Systematic Erasure Codes. In 18th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2021, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-15, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 1–8. doi.org/10.1109/PST52912.2021.9647779
- Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, and Ian Welch. 2021. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) of Honeypot-Based Cybersecurity Experiment for IoT. In 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021, Edmonton, AB, Canada, October 4-7, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 645–648. doi.org/10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9525010
- Miguel C. Neves, Bradley Huffaker, Kirill Levchenko, and Marinho Barcellos. 2021. Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 29, 4 (2021), 1540–1552. doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2021.3068339
- Thye Way Phua, Panos Patros, and Vimal Kumar. 2021. Towards Embedding Data Provenance in Files. In 11th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, CCWC 2021, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 27-30, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 1319–1325. doi.org/10.1109/CCWC51732.2021.9375947
- Daniel Roodt, Ulrich Speidel, Vimal Kumar, and Ryan K. L. Ko. 2021. On Random Editing in LZ-End. In 31st Data Compression Conference, DCC 2021, Snowbird, UT, USA, March 23-26, 2021. IEEE, 366. doi.org/10.1109/DCC50243.2021.00074
- Farzana Zahid, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, and Roopak Sinha. 2021. Light-Weight Active Security for Detecting DDoS Attacks in Containerised ICPS. In 18th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2021, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-15, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 1–5. doi.org/10.1109/PST52912.2021.9647782
- Nicu Florin Zaicu, Matthew Luckie, Richard Nelson, and Marinho Barcellos. 2021. Helix: Traffic Engineering for Multi-Controller SDN. In SOSR ’21: The ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research, Virtual Event, USA, October 11 - 12, 2021, 2021. ACM, 80–87. h/doi.org/10.1145/3482898.3483354
2020
- Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros, and Robi Malik. 2020. ESCAPADE: Encryption-Type-Ransomware: System Call Based Pattern Detection. In Network and System Security - 14th International Conference, NSS 2020, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 25-27, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2020. Springer, 388–407. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65745-1_23
- Junaid Haseeb, Naveed Ahmad, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, and Adeel Anjum. 2020. Application of formal methods to modelling and analysis aspects of business process reengineering. Bus. Process. Manag. J. 26, 2 (2020), 548–569. doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-02-2019-0078
- Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, Harith Al-Sahaf, and Ian Welch. 2020. IoT Attacks: Features Identification and Clustering. In 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, Guangzhou, China, December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021, 2020. IEEE, 353–360. doi.org/10.1109/TRUSTCOM50675.2020.00056
- Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, and Ian Welch. 2020. A Measurement Study of IoT-Based Attacks Using IoT Kill Chain. In 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, Guangzhou, China, December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021, 2020. IEEE, 557–567. doi.org/10.1109/TRUSTCOM50675.2020.00080
- Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2020. A survey on the current internet interconnection practices. Comput. Commun. Rev. 50, 1 (2020), 10–17. doi.org/10.1145/3390251.3390254
- Pedro de B. Marcos, Lars Prehn, Lucas Leal, Alberto Dainotti, Anja Feldmann, and Marinho Barcellos. 2020. AS-Path Prepending: there is no rose without a thorn. In IMC ’20: ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Virtual Event, USA, October 27-29, 2020, 2020. ACM, 506–520. doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423642
- Lucas F. Müller, Matthew Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, and Marinho Barcellos. 2020. Spoofed traffic inference at IXPs: Challenges, methods and analysis. Comput. Networks 182, (2020), 107452. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2020.107452
- Daniel Roodt, Ulrich Speidel, Vimal Kumar, and Ryan K. L. Ko. 2020. Local Editing in LZ-End Compressed Data. CoRR abs/2007.06167, (2020). Retrieved from arxiv.org/abs/2007.06167
- Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Abdul Qadir, Atta Rahman, Rachid Zagrouba, Fahd A. Alhaidari, Tariq Ali, and Farzana Zahid. 2023. Enhanced query processing over semantic cache for cloud based relational databases. J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput. 14, 5 (2023), 5853–5871. doi.org/10.1007/S12652-020-01943-X
2019
- Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2019. Decentralized proof of location in vehicular Ad Hoc networks. Comput. Commun. 147, (2019), 98–110. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2019.07.024
- Christopher Jun-Wen Chew and Vimal Kumar. 2019. Behaviour Based Ransomware Detection. In Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 18-20, 2019 (EPiC Series in Computing), 2019. EasyChair, 127–136. doi.org/10.29007/T5Q7
- David R. Choffnes and Marinho Barcellos (Eds.). 2019. Passive and Active Measurement - 20th International Conference, PAM 2019, Puerto Varas, Chile, March 27-29, 2019, Proceedings. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15986-3
- Matthew Dekker and Vimal Kumar. 2019. Using Audio Characteristics for Mobile Device Authentication. In Network and System Security - 13th International Conference, NSS 2019, Sapporo, Japan, December 15-18, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2019. Springer, 98–113. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36938-5_6
- Vimal Kumar. 2019. A Bilinear Pairing Based Secure Data Aggregation Scheme for WSNs. In 15th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019, Tangier, Morocco, June 24-28, 2019, 2019. IEEE, 102–107. doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC.2019.8766759
- Lucas F. Müller, Matthew J. Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, and Marinho Barcellos. 2019. Challenges in inferring spoofed traffic at IXPs. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments And Technologies, CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, December 09-12, 2019, 2019. ACM, 96–109. doi.org/10.1145/3359989.3365422
- Miguel C. Neves, Bradley Huffaker, Kirill Levchenko, and Marinho Barcellos. 2019. Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes. In 2019 IFIP Networking Conference, Networking 2019, Warsaw, Poland, May 20-22, 2019, 2019. IEEE, 1–9. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING.2019.8816830
2018
- Yousef Alowayed, Marco Canini, Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Picking a Partner: A Fair Blockchain Based Scoring Protocol for Autonomous Systems. In Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, ANRW 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 16-16, 2018, 2018. ACM, 33–39. doi.org/10.1145/3232755.3232785
- Marinho Barcellos and Diego F. Aranha. 2018. Research in Security and Privacy in Brazil. IEEE Secur. Priv. 16, 6 (2018), 14–21. doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2018.2874855
- Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Vouch: A Secure Proof-of-Location Scheme for VANETs. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 28 - November 02, 2018, 2018. ACM, 241–248. doi.org/10.1145/3242102.3242125
- Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Mitigating Position Falsification Attacks in Vehicular Platooning. In 2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5-7, 2018, 2018. IEEE, 1–4. doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628427
- Lucas Freire, Miguel C. Neves, Lucas Leal, Kirill Levchenko, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Uncovering Bugs in P4 Programs with Assertion-based Verification. In Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research, SOSR 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 28-29, 2018, 2018. ACM, 4:1-4:7. doi.org/10.1145/3185467.3185499
- Vimal Kumar, Amartya Sen, and Sanjay Madria. 2018. Secure Sensor Cloud. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. doi.org/10.2200/S00886ED1V01Y201811ASE018
- Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas F. Müller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection exchange. In Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, ANRW 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 16-16, 2018, 2018. ACM, 94. doi.org/10.1145/3232755.3232784
- Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas F. Müller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Dynam-IX: a dynamic interconnection eXchange. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2018, Heraklion, Greece, December 04-07, 2018, 2018. ACM, 228–240. doi.org/10.1145/3281411.3281419
- Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas F. Müller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchange. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference on Posters and Demos, SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25, 2018, 2018. ACM, 12–14. doi.org/10.1145/3234200.3234218
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2017
- Judy Bowen, Annika Hinze, Christopher Griffiths, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge. 2017. Personal data collection in the workplace: ethical and technical challenges. In Proceedings of the 31st British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference (pp. 1-11). DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.57
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- Felipe Boeira, Marinho Barcellos, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Alexey V. Vinel, and Mikael Asplund. 2017. On the impact of sybil attacks in cooperative driving scenarios. In 2017 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2017 and Workshops, Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-16, 2017, 2017. IEEE Computer Society, 1–2. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING.2017.8264890
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- Lucas Freire, Miguel C. Neves, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. POSTER: Finding Vulnerabilities in P4 Programs with Assertion-based Verification. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2017, Dallas, TX, USA, October 30 - November 03, 2017, 2017. ACM, 2495–2497. doi.org/10.1145/3133956.3138837
- Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Marinho Barcellos, Emilio Leonardi, and Dario Rossi. 2017. Exploiting parallelism in hierarchical content stores for high-speed ICN routers. Comput. Networks 125, (2017), 132–145. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2017.04.041
- Daniel S. Marcon and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. Packer: Minimizing multi-resource fragmentation and performance interference in datacenters. In 2017 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2017 and Workshops, Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-16, 2017, 2017. IEEE Computer Society, 1–9. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING.2017.8264836
- ●Daniel S. Marcon, Fabrício M. Mazzola, and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. Achieving minimum bandwidth guarantees and work-conservation in large-scale, SDN-based datacenter networks. Comput. Networks 127, (2017), 109–125. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2017.08.008
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- Andrés F. Ocampo, Juliver Gil-Herrera, Pedro Heleno Isolani, Miguel C. Neves, Juan Felipe Botero, Steven Latré, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2017. Optimal Service Function Chain Composition in Network Functions Virtualization. In Security of Networks and Services in an All-Connected World - 11th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2017, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10-13, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2017. Springer, 62–76. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60774-0_5
- Behjat Zuhaira, Naveed Ahmad, Tanzila Saba, Junaid Haseeb, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, Umar Manzoor, Muhammad A. Balubaid, and Adeel Anjum. 2017. Identifying Deviations in Software Processes. IEEE Access 5, (2017), 20319–20332. doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2757954
2016
- Marinho Barcellos, Jon Crowcroft, Amin Vahdat, and Sachin Katti (Eds.). 2016. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2016 Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, August 22-26, 2016. ACM. doi.org/10.1145/2934872
- Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciana S. Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2016. A toolset for efficient privacy-oriented virtual network embedding and its instantiation on SDN/OpenFlow-based substrates. Comput. Commun. 82, (2016), 13–27. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2016.02.007
- Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Hanna Kavalionak, Alessio Guerrieri, and Alberto Montresor. 2016. Making puzzles green and useful for adaptive identity management in large-scale distributed systems. Comput. Networks 95, (2016), 97–114. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2015.12.005
- Matheus B. Lehmann, Marinho Barcellos, and Andreas Mauthe. 2016. Providing producer mobility support in NDN through proactive data replication. In 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25-29, 2016, 2016. IEEE, 383–391. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502835
- Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2016. How physical network topologies affect virtual network embedding quality: A characterization study based on ISP and datacenter networks. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 70, (2016), 1–16. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2016.05.009
- Daniel S. Marcon, Miguel C. Neves, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2016. PredCloud: Providing predictable network performance in large-scale OpenFlow-enabled cloud platforms through trust-based allocation of resources. Comput. Commun. 91–92, (2016), 44–61. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2016.07.010
- Alexandre Gustavo Wermann, Marcelo Cardoso Bortolozzo, Eduardo Germano da Silva, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2016. ASTORIA: A framework for attack simulation and evaluation in smart grids. In 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25-29, 2016, 2016. IEEE, 273–280. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502822
2015
- Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Matheus B. Lehmann, Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. CCNrel: Leveraging relations among objects to improve the performance of CCN. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 199–206. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140293
- Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira. 2015. Virtual network security: threats, countermeasures, and challenges. J. Internet Serv. Appl. 6, 1 (2015), 1:1-1:19. doi.org/10.1186/S13174-014-0015-Z
- Roy Cabaniss, Vimal Kumar, and Sanjay Madria. 2015. Multi-party encryption (MPE): secure communications in delay tolerant networks. Wirel. Networks 21, 4 (2015), 1243–1258. doi.org/10.1007/S11276-014-0848-1
- Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Hanna Kavalionak, Alessio Guerrieri, and Alberto Montresor. 2016. Making puzzles green and useful for adaptive identity management in large-scale distributed systems. Comput. Networks 95, (2016), 97–114. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2015.12.005
- Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2015. Distributed Attribute Based Access Control of Aggregated Data in Sensor Clouds. In 34th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2015, Montreal, QC, Canada, September 28 - October 1, 2015, 2015. IEEE Computer Society, 218–227. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2015.33
- Pedro García López, Alberto Montresor, Dick H. J. Epema, Anwitaman Datta, Teruo Higashino, Adriana Iamnitchi, Marinho Barcellos, Pascal Felber, and Etienne Rivière. 2015. Edge-centric Computing: Vision and Challenges. Comput. Commun. Rev. 45, 5 (2015), 37–42. doi.org/10.1145/2831347.2831354
- Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2015. Piecing together the NFV provisioning puzzle: Efficient placement and chaining of virtual network functions. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 98–106. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140281
- Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Lorenzo Saino, Marinho Barcellos, Massimo Gallo, Emilio Leonardi, Diego Perino, and Dario Rossi. 2015. Hierarchical Content Stores in High-Speed ICN Routers: Emulation and Prototype Implementation. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information-Centric Networking, ICN ’15, San Francisco, California, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2015, 2015. ACM, 59–68. doi.org/10.1145/2810156.2810159
- Daniel S. Marcon and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. Predictor: Providing fine-grained management and predictability in multi-tenant datacenter networks. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 71–79. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140278
- Daniel S. Marcon, Miguel C. Neves, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Leonardo Richter Bays, Raouf Boutaba, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. IoNCloud: Exploring application affinity to improve utilization and predictability in datacenters. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015, London, United Kingdom, June 8-12, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 5497–5503. doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7249198
- Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Daniel S. Marcon, Leonardo Richter Bays, Miguel C. Neves, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Deep Medhi, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. Opportunistic resilience embedding (ORE): Toward cost-efficient resilient virtual networks. Comput. Networks 89, (2015), 59–77. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2015.07.010
- Tobias Petry, Rafael da Fonte Lopes da Silva, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. Off the wire control: Improving the control plane resilience through cellular networks. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015, London, United Kingdom, June 8-12, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 5308–5313. doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7249167
2014
- Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. A heuristic-based algorithm for privacy-oriented virtual network embedding. In 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2014, Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE, 1–8. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838360
- Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Rodrigo Brandão Mansilha, Flavio Roberto Santos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2014. Were You There? Bridging the Gap to Unveil Users’ Online Sessions in Networked, Distributed Systems. In 2014 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, SBRC 2014, Florianopolis, Brazil, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 239–248. doi.org/10.1109/SBRC.2014.29
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- Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. HIPER: Heuristic-based infrastructure expansion through partition reconnection for efficient Virtual Network Embedding. In 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2014 and Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 17-21, 2014, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 91–99. doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2014.7014145
- Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. Reconnecting Partitions on Physical Infrastructures: Towards an Expansion Strategy for Efficient Virtual Network Embedding. In 2014 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, SBRC 2014, Florianopolis, Brazil, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 335–343. doi.org/10.1109/SBRC.2014.40
- Sanjay Madria, Vimal Kumar, and Rashmi Dalvi. 2014. Sensor Cloud: A Cloud of Virtual Sensors. IEEE Softw. 31, 2 (2014), 70–77. doi.org/10.1109/MS.2013.141
- Lucas F. Müller, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2014. Survivor: An enhanced controller placement strategy for improving SDN survivability. In IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2014, Austin, TX, USA, December 8-12, 2014, 2014. IEEE, 1909–1915. doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037087
- Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. Slowing down to speed up: Protecting users against massive attacks in content distribution systems. In 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2014, Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE, 1–7. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838289
2013
- Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2013. Make it green and useful: Reshaping puzzles for identity management in large-scale distributed systems. In 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 387–394.
- Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2013. PIP: Privacy and Integrity Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In IEEE 32nd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2013, Braga, Portugal, 1-3 October 2013, 2013. IEEE Computer Society, 10–19. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2013.10
- Matheus B. Lehmann, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. Exploring your neighborhood: Comparing connection strategies in swarming networks through evolving graphs. In 13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE P2P 2013, Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 2013, Proceedings, 2013. IEEE, 1–10. doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2013.6688701
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- Sanjay Madria, Vimal Kumar, and Rashmi Dalvi. 2014. Sensor Cloud: A Cloud of Virtual Sensors. IEEE Softw. 31, 2 (2014), 70–77. doi.org/10.1109/MS.2013.141
- Daniel S. Marcon, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Ramide Dantas, Miguel C. Neves, Edmundo R. M. Madeira, Stenio Fernandes, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Nelson L. S. da Fonseca. 2013. Workflow specification and scheduling with security constraints in hybrid clouds. In 2nd IEEE Latin American Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications, Maceio, Brazil, December 9-10, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 29–34. doi.org/10.1109/LATINCLOUD.2013.6842219
- Daniel Stefani Marcon, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Miguel Cardoso Neves, Luciana Salete Buriol, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. Trust-based grouping for cloud datacenters: Improving security in shared infrastructures. In IFIP Networking Conference, 2013, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 22-24 May, 2013, 2013. IEEE Computer Society, 1–9.
- Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Leonardo Richter Bays, Daniel S. Marcon, Miguel C. Neves, Luciana Salete Buriol, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. DoS-resilient virtual networks through multipath embedding and opportunistic recovery. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC ’13, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013, 2013. ACM, 597–602. doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480477
- Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Daniel S. Marcon, Leonardo Richter Bays, Miguel C. Neves, Luciana S. Buriol, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. No more backups: Toward efficient embedding of survivable virtual networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 9-13, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 2128–2132. doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2013.6654841
- Flavio Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Fabio Victora Hecht, and Burkhard Stiller. 2013. Slowing down to speed up: Mitigating collusion attacks in Content Distribution Systems. In 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 435–442.
- Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos. 2013. Beyond pollution and taste: A tag-based strategy to increase download quality in P2P file sharing systems. Comput. Commun. 36, 2 (2013), 191–202. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2012.08.012
2012
- Marinho Barcellos, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Hisham H. Muhammad, and Ruthiano S. Munaretti. 2012. Beyond network simulators: Fostering novel distributed applications and protocols through extendible design. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 35, 1 (2012), 328–339. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2011.07.015
- Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciana Salete Buriol, Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2012. Security-aware optimal resource allocation for virtual network embedding. In 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 22-26, 2012, 2012. IEEE, 378–384.
- Roy Cabaniss, Vimal Kumar, and Sanjay Madria. 2012. Three Point Encryption (3PE): Secure Communications in Delay Tolerant Networks. In IEEE 31st Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2012, Irvine, CA, USA, October 8-11, 2012, 2012. IEEE Computer Society, 479–480. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2012.74
- Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Gustavo Huff Mauch, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2012. Identity management based on adaptive puzzles to protect P2P systems from Sybil attacks. Comput. Networks 56, 11 (2012), 2569–2589. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2012.03.026
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- Matheus B. Lehmann, Lucas F. Müller, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2012. Disconnecting to connect: Understanding optimistic disconnection in BitTorrent. In 12th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2012, Tarragona, Spain, September 3-5, 2012, 2012. IEEE, 138–148. doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2012.6335793
- Matheus Brenner Lehmann, Flavio Roberto Santos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2012. Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures on BitTorrent. Comput. Networks 56, 15 (2012), 3479–3498. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2012.07.005
- Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos. 2013. Beyond pollution and taste: A tag-based strategy to increase download quality in P2P file sharing systems. Comput. Commun. 36, 2 (2013), 191–202. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2012.08.012
- Adler Hoff Schmidt, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2012. Characterizing dissemination of illegal copies of content through monitoring of BitTorrent networks. In 2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2012, Maui, HI, USA, April 16-20, 2012, 2012. IEEE, 327–334. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211915
2011
- Asjad Amin, Haseeb Ahmed, Abubakar Rafique, Muhammad Junaid Nawaz, Muhammad Salahudin, and Zulfiqar Ahmed. 2011. Designing a hierarchical DHCP server’s model to automatically provide dedicated IP address anywhere in the world with mobility. In 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 11-14, 2011, 2011. IEEE, 250–253.
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- Marinho Barcellos, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Hisham H. Muhammad, and Ruthiano S. Munaretti. 2012. Beyond network simulators: Fostering novel distributed applications and protocols through extendible design. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 35, 1 (2012), 328–339. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2011.07.015
- Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, and Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes. 2011. A conservative strategy to protect P2P file sharing systems from pollution attacks. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 23, 1 (2011), 117–141. doi.org/10.1002/CPE.1635
- Thaís Vasconcelos Batista, Nabor C. Mendonça, Américo Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Edmundo R. M. Madeira, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marinho Barcellos, Noemi de La Rocque Rodriguez, Karin K. Breitman, Djamel Sadok, Silvio Meira, Stenio F. L. Fernandes, Flávia Coimbra Delicato, and Paulo F. Pires. 2011. AltoStratus: A Collaboration Network Focused on the New Research Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Computing. In 25th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 28-30, 2011, 2011. IEEE Computer Society, 138–143. doi.org/10.1109/SBES.2011.32
- Rafael V. Coelho, Jonata T. Pastro, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Marinho Barcellos, Ingrid Jansch-Pôrto, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2011. Challenging the feasibility of authentication mechanisms for P2P live streaming. In Proceedings of the 6th Latin America Networking Conference, LANC ’11, Quito, Ecuador, October 12-14, 2011, 2011. ACM, 55–63. doi.org/10.1145/2078216.2078227
- Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Gustavo Huff Mauch, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2011. Securing P2P systems from Sybil attacks through adaptive identity management. In 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2011, Paris, France, October 24-28, 2011, 2011. IEEE, 1–6.
- Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Leonardo Richter Bays, Matheus B. Lehmann, Alan Mezzomo, Giovani Facchini, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2011. Observing the BitTorrent universe through Telescopes. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2011, Dublin, Ireland, 23-27 May 2011, 2011. IEEE, 321–328. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990707
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- Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2011. Funnel: Choking Polluters in BitTorrent File Sharing Communities. IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. 8, 4 (2011), 310–321. doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2011.110311.110104
2010
- Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2010. Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the Information Explosion Era, Takahiro Hara, Vladimir Zadorozhny and Erik Buchmann (eds.). Springer, 77–107. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13965-9_3
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- Eduardo Moschetta, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2010. Flexible and secure service discovery in ubiquitous computing. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 33, 2 (2010), 128–140. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2009.11.001
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2009
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- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Sidnei Roberto Selzler Franco, Marinho Barcellos, and Gerson Geraldo Homrich Cavalheiro. 2009. AGRADC: An architecture for autonomous deployment and configuration of grid computing applications. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009), July 5-8, Sousse, Tunisia, 2009. IEEE Computer Society, 805–810. doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202358
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HISTORY
NZCSC 2025 Winners
High School Category:
- 1st place: VuwCTF Grumpy C
- 2nd place: w2d
- 3rd place: [VuwCTF]BAkingBRead
Tertiary Category:
- 1st place: sigsegv
- 2nd place: VuwCTF Aterlone
- 3rd place: VUWCTF stegfan19274
Industry/Open Category:
- 1st place: Cale
- 2nd place: Anthony
- 3rd place: logebear555
NZCSC 2024 Winners
Grand Prize Winner: Jamie McClymont and Thomas Hobson
Grand Runner-up: Michael Young and Aaron Rumpler
Round 1 Category Winners:
- High School Category: Tane Haines, Ture Hansson, Oscar Horne
- Tertiary Category: Michael Young, Aaron Rumpler
- Industry/Open Category: Elliott Lawrence, Jakub Sawicki
Round 2 Category Winners:
- High School Category: Fionn Cassidy, Ivan Shabashev
- Tertiary Category: Jess Churchill, Avocado Rider
- Industry/Open Category: Jamie McClymont, Thomas Hobson
Round 2 Runner-up:
- Secondary Category: Tane Haines, Ture Hansson, Oscar Horne
- Tertiary Category: Michael Young, Aaron Rumpler
Side Challenge Top 3 Winners:
- Jake Nicholson
- Aidan Dunn
- Jack Crenfeldt
NZCSC 2023 Winners
Grand Winners: Cale Budd, Josh Hogan, Sam Hogan
Grand Runner-up: Charlotte MacKenzie, Jamie McClymont
Round 1 & 2 Winners:
Secondary Category:- Elijah Michel
- Thomas Jackson
- Alex Berry
- Ava Rider
- James Churchill
- Thomas Hobson
- Caleb Butcher
- Yek Tham
- Austin Chamberlain
Round 1 & 2 First Runner-up:
Secondary Category:- Elliott Bell
- Maxwell Robati
- Toby Connor-Kebbell
- Jonty Morris
- Sam Redmond
- Oliver Wright
Round 1 & 2 Second Runner-up:
Secondary Category:- Joel Bannister
- Lev Petersen
- Theo Keith
- Ethan Doughty
- Jack Gong
- John C
Challene Solvers
- Medium Challenge 8 First Solver: Bert Downs, Rowan Thorley, Alexander Stokes
- Medium Challenge 10 First Solver: Anthony Chilcott-Parker
- Medium Challenge 11 First Solver: Cale Budd, Josh Hogan, Sam Hogan
- Medium Challenge 12 First Solver: Cale Budd, Josh Hogan, Sam Hoga
High School Special Prize
- First Solver Challenge 2: Aaron Moore, Gavith Dharmasena, Jack Li
- Second Solver Challenge 1: James de Hair, Harrison Welford, William Robbers
NZCSC 2022
WHAT HAPPENED?
The 2022 NZ Cyber Security Challenge was held online with Round 0, Round 1 and 2 were on-campus.
- Waikato x Cardiff winners -
Congratulations to the winners of Waikato x Cardiff round. The Waikato University winner is DoingGood. The Cardiff University winner is heartburn.
- Round 1 and 2 winners -
Grand Prize Winner, 1500 NZD : Covid_Brain
Round 1 Category Winner, 750 NZD
- HighSchool Category: WHS's finest
- Tertiary/University Category: Unluggy Uce
- Industry/Open Category: The Prototype Polluters
- HighSchool Category: stAk
- Tertiary/University Category: Unluggy Uce
- Industry/Open Category: Covid_Brain
- HighSchool Category: Team 3
- Tertiary/University Category: The Pi Guys
- Industry/Open Category: The Prototype Polluters
- HighSchool Category: BeefStew
- Tertiary/University Category: NightmareRats
- Industry/Open Category: anthonycp
- Medium and Hard Challenges -
Medium Challenges, 75 NZD- Challenge 4: Team 6
- Challenge 9: SaladPants
- Challenge 11: anthonycp
- Challenge 2: The Interns
- Challenge 7: Covid_Brain
- Challenge 12: The Prototype Polluters
NZCSC 2021
WHAT HAPPENED?
The 2021 NZ Cyber Security Challenge was held online with Round 0, Round 1 and 2 were on-campus.
Grand Prize Winner - Sponsored By Bhojraj Parmar: Rhys Davies
Round 2 Category Winner
- HighSchool Category: Andrew Rider
- Tertiary/University Category: Cale Budd
- Industry/Open Category: Rhys Davies
- HighSchool Category: Misha Pavlov
- Tertiary/University Category: Sam Redmond
- Industry/Open Category: Grady Hooker
- HighSchool Category: Finn Robinson
- Tertiary/University Category: Ethan Mckee-Harris
- Industry/Open Category: Brendan Laing
Medium Challenges
- Challenge 6: Logan Krippner
- Challenge 7: Kushan Fernando
- Challenge 13: Sam Redmond
- Challenge 15: Logan Warner
- Challenge 8: Jamie McClymont
Notice regarding NZCSC 2021: After the culmination of NZCSC'21 it was brought to our attention that some challenges were plagiarized from sources on the internet. The NZCSC organisers reported this to the employer of the person who created and submitted the challenges to be used in NZCSC. The employer took swift and strictest possible action for the misconduct. The NZCSC values integrity above everything else and the team was deeply saddened with the discovery. We apologise to all NZCSC'21 participants for this oversight and assure everyone that we have now put measures in place to ensure this does not happen again.
NZCSC 2020
WHAT HAPPENED?
The 2020 NZ Cyber Security Challenge was held online with Round 0, Round 1 and a purple team challenge
all held online
Grand Winner: Jamie McClymont
Category Winners
- HighSchool Category: Technocoder(Zhiyuan Qi)
- Tertiary/University Category: Dast(Daniel Stokes)
- Industry/Open Category: Jamie McClymont
- Dast (Daniel Stokes)
- Tomais Williamson
- Jamie McClymont
- Logan Krippner
- Technocoder(Zhiyuan Qi)
- ZerOne (Sam Redmond)
- Samdaman (Sam Hogan)
- Fromage (Joshua Hogan)
- Michael Jang
- RavSS (Ravjot Singh Samra)
Medium Challenges
- Challenge 4: Fromage (Joshua Hogan)
- Challenge 5: Toby Heitland
- Challenge 7: Gittarackur (Ryo Sugiyama)
- Challenge 8: Fromage (Joshua Hogan)
- Challenge 10: Jamie McClymont
- Challenge 11: Jamie McClymont
- Challenge 12: Jamie McClymont
NZCSC 2019
FIRST PLACE
Team 'The Password Inspectors' - Jamie McClymont, Rhys Davies.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Congratulations to all the Cyber Security Challenge competitors of 2019. This year, the challengers took on the Internet of Things with the focus on - forensics, reverse engineering, steganography, web-application security and cryptography.
RUNNER-UP OF TERTIARY CATEGORY
Now UC Me (Joshua & Sam Hogan, University)
WINNER OF SECONDARY CATEGORY
Thonking (Cameron Li & Jason Xu)
RUNNER-UP OF SECONDARY CATEGORY
Arrays start at 1 (Ethyn Gillies & Marshall Patty)
RUNNER-UP OF SECONDARY CATEGORY
Frozen Orange (Orion Edwards & Thilanka Priyankara)
RUNNER-UP OF INDUSTRY CATEGORY
Gradyhooker (Grady Hooker).
NZCSC 2018
FIRST PLACE
Team Elliptic Curveballs - Logan Krippner, Jacob Cheatley and Michael Jang.
Women's Technical Challenge Champions
Team Octocats - Jamie McClymont and Abigail Koay
Drone challenge winners
Team UniHack - Rajat Rokhade, Debac Manikandan and Arnav Gogia
WHAT HAPPENED?
The NZ Cyber Security Challenge 2018 (NZCSC'18) hovered into action with a drone challenge for Round 1
& 2 contestants at the University of Waikato campus.
Challengers tested their hacking skills as they attempted to take charge of a drone controlled by a
host's smartphone and intercept photos taken by the drone's camera. Prizes were awarded to the
successful hackers.
NZCSC'18 action also included training sessions with some of the best, opportunities to kickstart a
cyber security career at the job fair and talks by some of the movers and shakers in the industry.
Round 0 online qualifying round took place from June 18-29, with the top 150 moving on to Rounds 1 and
2 on July 14 at the University.
CSC 2017
FIRST PLACE
2017 challenge known for Challenge Winner Repeat Performance .
It was a repeat performance by
the overall champions team Arcton, Nathaniel Watson, Jeremy Symon and Grady Hooker took out last
year's Challenge.
Representing industry, they walked away with a cheque for $2500 and
NetHui fellowships. Jeremy is currently doing a Masters of Computer Science at Waikato and working at
Gallagher, and Grady and Nathaniel are former Waikato Computer Science students now working in the
computer science industry.
RUNNERS UP
Overall runners-up 418ShortAndStout - Michael Robertson and Brent Vollebregt - placed top in the
tertiary division and took home $1800.
Top performers in the high school division after Rounds 1 and 2, SQL Sharks twins Sam and Josh Hogan
also took out first place in the new Policy Round. Contestants were tested on responsible disclosures,
asked to critique a really badly-written cyber policy, and suggest incident response next steps for a
fictitious event.
The winning team from the industry division after Rounds 1 and 2 were Jack Haystead, Daniel Tebbutt
and Declan ter Veer-Burke. They took home a cheque for $1800.
WHAT HAPPENED?
NZCSC'17 hit all the right keys with VIPs from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB)
and INTERPOL attending. GCSB director Andrew Hampton told the Challengers it wasn't long ago that
people were saying cyber security should be on the agenda but now the agenda is cyber security.
Although, In this year's Challenge CROW collaborated with Japan's National Institute of
Communications and Information Technology ( NICT ) to up the ante in the visualisation of
the attack and defend networks of the competition. CROW member Cameron Brown worked with Koei Suzuki
to customise the NIRVANA Kai visualisation to show network traffic between the Round 3 servers. The
collaboration is mutually beneficial as NICT will utilise CROW technology in the future. NICT supply
the visualisations for Japan's largest cyber security competition SECCON.
CSC 2016
FIRST PLACE
Team Name: Hodor (462,250 points)
Team Members: Sjoerd de Feijter, Matthew Stringer, Vladimir Petko
Industry category team, representing Gallagher Group
RUNNERS UP
First Runner-Up
Team Name: Solo Team(406,160 points)Team Members: Michael Robertson, 17 years old,
Secondary School Category team, representing Cambridge High School.
Second Runner-Up
Team Name: Arcton(386,300 points)Team members: jeremy Symon, Nathaniel Watson, Grady Hooker
Tertiary category team, representing University of Waikato Faculty of Computing And Mathematical Sciences
WHAT HAPPENED?
Due to the popularity of the competition in 2015, we introduced an online qualifying round, Round
Zero. 267 participants registered for Round Zero and attempted the challenges between the 17 June -
1st July, after which the Top 150 were chosen to attend the competition on the 14 and 15 July.
Participants competed in two rounds: Round One, a capture-the-flag style challenge and Round Two, a
Red team vs. Blue team game where the Blue teams had to defend their vulnerable servers from attacks
from the Red teams, which consisted of an Industry Professional from Gallagher and two CROW members.
CSC 2015
FIRST PLACE
Team Name: Ter B
RUNNERS UP
First Runner-Up
Team Name: DoubleMCSecond Runner-Up
Team Name: Kanye4PrezWHAT HAPPENED?
NZCSC'15 was open to all of New Zealand and participants were split into 3 categories: Secondary,
Tertiary, and Industry/Open.
The competition had 2 rounds: Round 1 was a capture-the-flag style challenge. Round 2, open to the top
5 teams of Round 1, was a Red team vs. Blue team style challenge where 5 Blue teams defended their
systems against the Red team, which included Industry professionals from Insomnia Security and PWC
Digital.
CSC 2014
The first instalment of the Cyber Security Challenge was open to University of Waikato students only.
CSC'14 had a single round - a capture-the-flag style challenge where the students participants solved
challenges to acquire flags. The event served its purpose: to gauge students' interest in a Cyber
Security-themed competition. Over 70 students registered, attended the training and paticipated in the
competition, which encouraged the organisers to plan the next CSC.