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UFO sightings: Book 1: 1990-2009
UFO sightings: Book 2: 1984-1989
UFO sightings: Book 3: 1981-1984
UFO sightings: Book 4: 1979-1980
UFO sightings: Book 5: More from 1979-1984
UFO sightings: Book 6: 1978-1981
UFO sightings: Book 7: 1959-1983
UFO sightings: Book 8: 1956-1979
UFO sightings: Book 9: 1952-1955

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Authors: John Barker, Peter Hannay, Christopher Bolan

Abstract
Traditional attacks against anonymous routing systems aim to uncover the identities of those involved, however, a more likely goal of attackers is to block or degrade the network itself, discouraging participation and forcing vulnerable users to communicate using less secure means. Since these anonymous networks operate on known protocols and employ strong encryption it is difficult to distinguish them from regular traffic. This paper proposes a method for identifying traffic belonging to anonymous networks by examining their communication patterns. If successful the method would enable the identification of Tor usage and thus allow for more directed attacks and possible user identification.

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Authors: Peter Hannay, Christopher Bolan

Abstract
The advent of internationalised domains has introduced a new threat with the non-english character sets allowing visual mimicry of common domain names. Whilst this phenomenon remains well known in the development and internet industry the actual implementations of popular applications have been previously shown to lack successful mitigation strategies and countermeasures. The research found that in the current versions of most internet browsers and email clients, some form of homograph identification or blocking exists. However, some notable and popular applications include either flawed implementations or miss key features and thus allow for IDN based attacks.

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Authors: Craig Valli, Peter Hannay

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The combination of GPS services and information technology is increasing with the use of geotagging now occurring as a default action in many commodity based devices functionality for example mobile phones and cameras. The camera in suitably enabled phones takes the picture and embeds GPS co-ordinates of the location into the metadata of the resulting image file. Furthermore there are now online services such as foursquare that are targeted at the geotagging or geocaching community. In addition to this overtly designed service other social online  services such Flickr, Twitter are providing a means of geotagging users. This enablement of technology has significant and profound effects on bpersonal security and also extending into corporate security.

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Authors: Peter Hannay

Abstract
Satellite navigation systems are becoming increasingly common for automotive use within the civilian population. This increase in use is of interest to forensic investigators as satellite navigation devices have the potential to provide historical location data to investigators. The research in progress investigates the data sources and encoding on a number of common satellite navigation devices. The aim of this research is to develop a framework for the acquisition and analysis of common satellite navigation systems in a way that valid for multiple devices.

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Authors: Ken Pydayya, Peter Hannay, Patryk Szewczyk

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The evolution of the internet as a platform for commerce, banking, general information and personal communications has resulted in a situation where many individuals who may not have previously required internet access now require this connectivity as part of their everyday lives. In addition to this the widespread adoption of mobile broadband has lead to an increasing number of individuals having public facing IP addresses with no firewall appliances present. This situation has dramatically increased reliance on personal firewalls as the first and often last defence against intruders (human and malware alike). The evaluation performed demonstrates the capabilities of current personal firewall software to mitigate the threat posed by these intruders. The results show that the majority of personal firewall products evaluated are somewhat effective in reducing the risks remote exploitation but leave something to be desired in the area of information disclosure.

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Authors: Peter Hannay, Christopher Bolan

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With the advent of internationalised domains the threat posed by non-english character sets has eventuated. Whilst this phenomenon remains well known in the development and internet industry the actual implementations of popular applications have been tested to determine their resilience to homograph based attack. The research found that most provided features that overcome such attacks, but there remain a few notable exceptions. Should an attacker take advantage of such oversights a victim would likely not be able to spot a fraudulent site or email and thus provide a perfect platform for subsequent attack.

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Authors: Christopher Bolan, Peter Hannay

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The commencement of a trial of Internet Service Provider (ISP) level content filtering as a precursor to nation wide mandatory content filters in Australia has generated a large amount of publicity. Despite remaining low on details, figures released show that the laboratory testing of the filtering solutions caused significant slow down in Internet speeds as well as the unintentional censorship of allowable content. This paper investigates the currently available information on the trials and provides evidence that a freely available privacy tool such as Freegate could be used to bypass all of the likely filtering methods.

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Authors: Peter Hannay

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The scope of functionality provided by video game consoles has been consistently expanding to encompass features that were once limited to general purpose personal computers. This expansion poses a unique and interesting problem for those conducting digital forensic investigations as many of these consoles are resistant to traditional forensic acquisition and analysis techniques. In this paper we explore these issues and some possible solutions in an introduction fashion.

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