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Papers by Rodrigo Ruiz

International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics, 2015

Journal Journal of Applied Security Research, 2020

The paper proposes a novel index to classify how well UK Computer Science courses articulate cybe... more The paper proposes a novel index to classify how well UK Computer Science courses articulate cybersecurity related content through their course/module pages. The aim of this work is to raise awareness among British Universities to pay more attention to include and standardise cyber security content in computer science courses. Our results show that 80% of analysed courses scored 1 or 2-stars on a 5-Stars scale. The results also suggest the need of a formal delivery of cybersecurity content from the first year of the courses and possibly in a collaborative manner with the British Computer Society (BCS). To emphasize cybersecurity education in mitigating security lapses, the analogy is: it is better if most people know how to use a match than to train many fire-fighters.

Science Magazine, 2020

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1. Does privacy exists?

Analysing software business rules that impact privacy and cybersecurity is an
important part of computer science.
I want to explain how the relevant papers form a coherent body of work, demonstrates
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methodological and conceptual rigour, and articulates the original contribution to the field and
the importance of how Cybersecurity in The First Line of the First Code is important.
If we consider that the most important, most rich and most influencer companies in
the software market as involved in the problems that my research expose. And these companies
seek to hire the best professionals. And even though these professionals in general, come from
the best universities. It makes perfect sense to question your concepts and curricula. In
analysing the relation of the interdependence between entities of the cyber cosmos.

Natasha Ruiz, PhD candidate, School of Computing and Digital Media,
London Metropolitan University
Advisors
Dr Pancham Shukla
Senior Lecturer & Course Leader
(Communications Technology and Mathematics)
School of Computing and Digital Media (SCDM)
London Metropolitan University

Prof. H. Kazemian, B.Sc, M.Sc, PhD, FIET, FBCS, C.Eng.,
Senior manager for research degree, chair of RSPG and PhD coordinator,
Head of Intelligent Systems Research Centre,
School of Computing and Digital Media,
London Metropolitan University

Science, 2020

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6168/228.1/tab-e-letters Is Brazil taking advantage of... more https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6168/228.1/tab-e-letters
Is Brazil taking advantage of COVID-19 to promote age and social extermination? After the disastrous pronouncement on the national network on March 24, 2020, the Brazilian president and a good part of his team, leave little doubt that the death of a significant portion of the elderly from the lower classes, could be the solution to social security problems. Brazilian. At the end of 2019, the Brazilian government promoted a social security reform that aims to change the Brazilian model similar to Europeans to a model increasingly closer to that of the Americans. Such a conscious elimination of thousands of poor elderly people would certainly bring a dream economy to the current government's economic team according to their misogynistic opinions widely publicized as an open sewer. Against the world that has acted to protect its citizens, it is legitimate to consider the possibility of a deliberate extermination action.

icgs3, 2019

When the content is not written in the discipline syllabus, it is possible that it will not be ta... more When the content is not written in the discipline syllabus, it is possible that it will not be taught. In this work, the author has investigated 100 computer science undergraduate courses in the UK, to assess the capability of the software developers in the Country to create secure pieces of software. Besides that, to evaluate to which extent the UK Engineering and System Design students are being taught about the relevance of considering security issues when developing software or if this subject is treated as just an optional element at the end of their professional education.

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The instinct of fear, make us to run, to paralyze or attack to defense ourselves, our family, our resources, our country and our culture. All biomes need equilibrium between predators and prey. The survival of all depends that perfect number of food and teeth. In the cyber world, Government, residential users, corporate users and security companies are our biome. Observing the life, we can see that the attack is the first choice of leaders.

The era when communism and capitalism polarized the world was full of good times. For analysts an... more The era when communism and capitalism polarized the world was full of good times. For analysts and the general population, it was easy to identify each side of a dispute. Then came the 1990s and ever since everything in the world has ceased to be binary, whether in terms of males and females or op-posing sides in a particular country. Moreover, where we had previously de-clared war against a state, we now declared war on terror, leaving us so terri-fied that a private war is being conducted, not only against foreign citizens, but our own.

The cybersecurity is the issue on the international agenda. The abuse of communication and faulty... more The cybersecurity is the issue on the international agenda. The abuse of communication and faulty software is a common practice that brings the decade of 70. Invariably technology is the great protagonist of data leakage and loss of privacy. However, issues related to cybersecurity are founded on sociotechni-cal approach: technology, people, processes and environment, which interact indistinctly in a sensitive relationship. In this intricate sociotechnical environment of cybersecurity, this paper discloses a flaw in Symantec Encryption Desktop (SED), which can allow the leakage of sensitive information from governments, military and research centers around the world. In this context, as an example, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses the Symantec Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Encryption Desktop (SED). The Technology is not the main culprit for data leakage. Sometimes, the users are influenced by sophisticated marketing campaigns, which reaffirms the quality of products and services. In practice, this work is focused in the design errors and past vulnerabilities which are still present in recent technological solutions and allow data leakage and loss of privacy in a general way.

By Rodrigo Ruiz, researcher at CTI Renato Archer and Rogério Winter, Colonel at Brazilian Army We... more By Rodrigo Ruiz, researcher at CTI Renato Archer and Rogério Winter, Colonel at Brazilian Army
We present the proof of concept of a new cyber weapon that has the potential to paralyze an entire nation with irreversible damage, caused by nation state-sponsored attacks (Ministry of Justice of Georgia 2011) or terrorists. Apoc@lypse Technique removal of pages in the book ‘Apoc@lypse: The End of Antivirus’ (Ruiz, et al., 2015) clearly demonstrates the fragility of our defences. We were taught for more than 30 years that in the digital age, we should trust our antivirus system and always keep it updated. You can control the antivirus market and turn it against your opponent, since to do so protects your family photos, even those that protect our trade, finance and military strategies. Undetectable, fast and devastating for the computer data hit.

By Rogério Winter, Brazilian Army – Cyber Defense and Rodrigo Ruiz, Center for Information Techno... more By Rogério Winter, Brazilian Army – Cyber Defense and Rodrigo Ruiz, Center for Information Technology Renato Archer (CTI)
The security of information has grown in importance worldwide. When businesspersons travel, they transport sensitive company data among offices, cities and even countries. It is noteworthy that many mobile devices are stolen each year and with that, information confidentiality of company’s strategic information confidential can be compromised. Our work has evolved to an analysis of two existing consecrated encryption systems on the market: Bitlocker (Microsoft) and Bit Defender Total Encryption 2015 (Bitdefender). We were able to prove that outdated concepts are still being used to protect the information and guarantee the privacy. We show how failures in their development, commercial inconsistencies and poor implementation can compromise the privacy and information security. Keywords: Encryption, Confidentiality, Data security, Forensics, Privacy, BitLocker, BitDefender.

Cyber Defense Magazine DEZ/2015 Briefing of Apoc@lypse: The End of Antivirus

ocument in November 2009 titled “A Cybersecurity Research Roadmap.” This document is an American ... more ocument in November 2009 titled “A Cybersecurity Research Roadmap.” This document is an American attempt to define a research and development agenda and to allow the production of technologies that will protect the systems of information and computer networks in the future. Cybersecurity Research Roadmap identified eleven hard problems in the area of cybersecurity. It is a surprising observation that the defense against malware and botnets is a difficult problem to solve, as Fred Cohen pointed out in his research in 1987. Ralph Langner wrote a very interesting paper in November 2013, “To Kill a Centrifuge,” which points out that more than three years after the discovery of the Stuxnet, which is still confusing the military, expert strategists in information security, decision-makers, and the public, the Stuxnet malware marks a clear inflection point in military history and also cybersecurity. Its future impact will probably be more substantial when we study the detection and defense systems from other approaches, such as mathematical or evolution theories. All software has an order, because it is something that gives it stability and makes it recognizable to our eyes and establishes similarities to and differences from other software.

Special webinar about Antivirus, including references of Apoc@lypse. John Strand, Rodrigo Ruiz, ... more Special webinar about Antivirus, including references of Apoc@lypse.
John Strand,
Rodrigo Ruiz,
Rogério Winter,
Kil Park,
Fernando Amatte,
Et all.

Apocalypse is coming soon. This book relates the unprecedented experience of Brazilian researche... more Apocalypse is coming soon.
This book relates the unprecedented experience of Brazilian researchers, who found a flaw in the current antivirus system. The original research was inspired by the observation of autoimmune diseases and their effects on the human body. A flaw in DNA of old antivirus systems influences the whole current generation of antivirus.
We call Apoc@lypse because the repercussions go far beyond just the commercial and economic impact. Apoc@lype will influence on people's lives, businesses and the global cyber security.
The Apoc@lypse technique is a generic and extremely efficient way to bypass the protection of the antivirus system. The technique explore not disclosure vulnerability of the systems antivirus. It allows to infect and to destroy the operating system and stored data in the computer.
The book's contents will change the way the information technology industry will design their products. A multi-billion dollar market influenced by a flaw that exists at least 30 years.
With the ApocAlypse method it is possible create a new order of super-powerful and indestructible virus.
This book was not written for technicians, but for all the people that use computers and are concerned about their privacy and data security. A long time ago, occurred the disappearance of the dinosaurs. This work, probably, seems like to be the disappearance of the old concept.

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Forensic Computer Science, 2012

ABSTRACT The growing concern of users about the confidentiality of data generated by web browsing... more ABSTRACT The growing concern of users about the confidentiality of data generated by web browsing activities made browser developers include options for safer and confidential browsing in their products. For users those options, when functionally compliant with data security guidelines, guarantee online privacy. For law enforcement agents, this functionality introduces another obstacle for data acquisition towards evidence gathering. It is important to assess and validate private browsing techniques no matter which case. The presented methodology shows that for some browsers it is possible to recover text and graphical data related to pages visited during private navigation, in clear violation of this tool basic functional requirement.

This paper presents TRIGONA, an australian honey-client and describes its effect as malware analy... more This paper presents TRIGONA, an australian honey-client and describes its effect as malware analysis tool during five months in 2011 first quarter. A PERL/GET script was developed in order to supply root parameters for efficiency measurement while processing infected URL lists provided by ArborNetwork (http://www.arbornetworks.com/). Also, an MySQL database was created to storage all URL lists and its analisys results. All notes taken from this research can be found on this paper.

The growing concern of users about the confidentiality of data generated by web browsing activiti... more The growing concern of users about the confidentiality of data generated by web browsing activities made browser developers include options for safer and confidential browsing in their products.
For users those options, when functionally compliant with data security guidelines, guarantee online privacy. For law enforcement agents, this functionality introduces another obstacle for data acquisition towards evidence gathering.
No matter which case, it is important to assess and validate private browsing techniques.
The presented method shows that for some browsers it is possible to recover text and graphical data related to pages visited during private navigation, in clear violation of this tool basic functional requirement.

Semelhante ao risco financeiro e a reputação, o risco à segurança cibernética afeta profundamente... more Semelhante ao risco financeiro e a reputação, o
risco à segurança cibernética afeta profundamente uma
empresa, órgão de governo e instituições militares. No contexto
das ameaças cibernéticas, os malware apresentam uma
tendência em expansão nos diversos setores produtivos. Escolher
uma solução de software anti-malware eficiente é crucial para a
organização.
O método Brasil de avaliação de anti-malware se
propõe a ser uma solução nacional para avaliar anti-malware
com a base realidade de ameaças cibernéticas brasileiras. O
trabalho visa responder aos seguintes questionamentos: deve-se
continuar a adquirir anti-malware com base em recomendações
de avaliadores independentes internacionais e o método Brasil é
uma solução concreta para avaliação de anti-malware. Após
experimentar o método Brasil com malwares coletados na
internet brasileira o trabalho aponta para a necessidade de se
aperfeiçoar o método em questão. Todavia, o método permitiu
visualizar um panorama bem diferente daquele propagado por
testadores independentes, pois apenas 50% da população dos
malware coletados na internet brasileira foram detectados pelos
anti-malware comercialmente disponíveis no Brasil.

The growing concern of various entities with the confidentiality of the data ultimately fostered ... more The growing concern of various entities with the confidentiality of the data ultimately fostered the development of tools for data protection at various levels, from a simple password protection on a word processor to sophisticated methods of encryption based on hardware or software implementation.
On the one hand such a feature, if operating perfectly aligned to security guidelines, provides the user privacy in its activities, on the other hand it is clear that in case of unlawful behavior, for law enforcement agents, this functionality introduces another obstacle for data acquisition towards evidence gathering.
This study aims to present a different and little explored approach to access information inside containers encrypted through the usage of Truecrypt software.
The proposed methodology proved that, in certain circumstances, a Truecrypt container presents a technical and operational vulnerability ignored by business and IT professionals, in clear violation of the basic functional requirement of this feature.

International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics, 2015

Journal Journal of Applied Security Research, 2020

Science Magazine, 2020

1. Does privacy exists?

Science, 2020

icgs3, 2019

Cyber Defense Magazine DEZ/2015 Briefing of Apoc@lypse: The End of Antivirus

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Forensic Computer Science, 2012

Science, 2020

In nature, some species become even more specialized and others even more generalized, especially... more In nature, some species become even more specialized and others even more generalized, especially when it comes to food and how each species puts itself with the rest of the biome.
Being a specialized species, although it is advantages, it has been shown a dangerous path and that it increases the chance of extinction. (1) Brazil, decided through its representatives and society itself, to focus on being a provider of foods, exporting water to the world.
We are one of the biggest world producers of grains and we don't produce a single tractor. Our native and nutritious seeds are being replaced for transgenic with no taste and without nutrients coming from the exterior.

Science, 2020

Video of Apoc@lypse in action

12th icgs3, 2019