National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance CANADA



Research Papers


  1. Farkhund Iqbal, Hamad Binsalleeh, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Mourad Debbabi. A unified data mining solution for authorship analysis in anonymous textual communications. Information Sciences (INS): Special Issue on Data Mining for Information Security, in press. Elsevier.
  2. Rabeah Al-Zaidy, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Amr M. Youssef, and Francis Fortin. Mining criminal networks from unstructured text documents. Digital Investigation (DIIN), in press. Elsevier.
  3. Rabeah Al-Zaidy, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Amr M. Youssef. Towards discovering criminal communities from textual data. In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): Computer Forensics Track, pages 172-177, TaiChung, Taiwan: ACM Press, March 2011.
  4. Farkhund Iqbal, Hamad Binsalleeh, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Mourad Debbabi. Mining writeprints from anonymous e-mails for forensic investigation. Digital Investigation (DIIN), 7:56-64, October 2010. Elsevier.
  5. Farkhund Iqbal, Liaquat A. Khan, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Mourad Debbabi. E-mail authorship verification for forensic investigation. In Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): Computer Forensics Track, pages 1591-1598, Sierre, Switzerland: ACM Press, March 2010.
  6. Farkhund Iqbal, Rashid Hadjidj, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Mourad Debbabi. A novel approach of mining write-prints for authorship attribution in e-mail forensics. Digital Investigation (DIIN), 5(1):S42-S51. September 2008.Elsevier.
  7. Elias Bou-Harb, Mourad Debbabi, and Chadi Assi. A first look on the effects and mitigation of VoIP SPIT flooding in 4G mobile networks. In IEEE ICC 2012 - Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC’12 CISS), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 2012.
  8. Elias Bou-Harb, Makan Pourzandi, Mourad Debbabi, and Chadi Assi.A Secure, Efficient and Cost-Effective Distributed Architecture for Spam Mitigation on LTE 4G Mobile Networks. Security and Communication Networks Journal: Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing. DOI: 10.1002/sec.41.Wiley Publications.
  9. Thomas Ormerod, Lingyu Wang, Mourad Debbabi, Amr Youssef, Hamad Binsalleeh, Amine Boukhtouta, and Prosenjit Sinha. Defaming Botnet Toolkits: A Bottom-Up Approach to Mitigating the Threat.
  10. Hamad Binsalleeh, Thomas Ormerod, Amine Boukhtouta, Prosenjit Sinha, Amr Youssef, Mourad Debbabi, and Lingyu Wang. On the Analysis of the Zeus Botnet Crimeware Toolkit. In the Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST'2010, Aug 17-19, Ottawa, ON, Canada, IEEE Press.
    Received the "BEST PAPER AWARD" of the Eighth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST'2010, Aug 17-19, Ottawa, ON, Canada, IEEE Press.
  11. Prosenjit Sinha, Amine Boukhtouta, Victor Heber Belarde, and Mourad Debbabi. Insights from the Analysis of the Mariposa Botnet. In Proceedings of the the Fifth International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2010, Montreal, Canada, Hotel Holiday Inn Midtown, October 11-13, 2010, NCFTA Canada & the Computer Security Laboratory, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
  12. L.A. Khan, M.S. Baig, and Amr M. Youssef. Speaker recognition from encrypted VoIP communications. Digital Investigation (2009).