Session cookies constitute one of the main attack targets against client authentication on the Web. To counter these attacks, modern web browsers implement native cookie protection mechanisms based on the HttpOnly and Secure flags. While there is a general understanding about the effectiveness of these defenses, no formal result has so far been proved about the security guarantees they convey. ...

Even though novel identification techniques like Single Sign-On (SSO) are on the rise, stealing the credentials used for the authentication is still possible. This situation can only be changed if we make novel use of the single cryptographic func-tionality a web browser offers, namely TLS. Although the use of client certificates for initial login has a long history, only two approaches to inte...

The Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) is a new transport layer protocol that has been designed to provide reliable transport over the Internet. While the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) is the most popular transport protocol for the Internet, it falls short with regard to security, more specifically resilience to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, such as SYN attacks. The need for resilie...

Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms in networks supporting mobile Internet communications give rise to new threats: these mechanisms could be abused by malicious entities launching so-called Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. If the network can not efficiently check the credibility of a QoS-request during a handover process, malicious entities could flood the network with bogus QoSrequests; if th...

This research examined the effects of both episodic memory and episodic future thinking (EFT) on snack food intake. In Study 1, female participants (n = 158) were asked to recall their lunch from earlier in the day, to think about the dinner they planned to have later in the day, or to think about a non-food activity before taking part in a cookie taste test. Participants who recalled their lun...

2 Overview of resampling 2 Permutation Methods 3 Bootstrapping 3 Monte Carlo 4 Failure of t-test: Girl Scout cookie sales 4 Demonstration of permutations 5 Demonstration of Howell‟s resampling programs 5 Howell‟s example: Hurry up, Fella! 5 parametric t 6 Permutation tests (also called Randomization tests) 6 t as a measure of an effect 6 Howell‟s Resampling program 7 Howell‟s Randomization (per...

Cookies were produced from germinated pigeon pea, fermented sorghum, and cocoyam flour (CF) blends to determine their potentials in cookie manufacture. Ten flour formulations were produced and they were evaluated for their proximate and functional properties. Protein content ranged from 4.85% to 19.89% with 100% CF (100CF) having the least value, while 100% germinated pigeon pea flour (100GPF) ...

The human acquisition of human languages is is based on the analysis of signal and context. To study how this might work, a simplified robotic setting is described in which the problem is divided into two basic steps: an analysis of the linguistic events in context that yields dependency structures, and the identification of grammars that generate those structures. A learnability result that ge...

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) compact policies (CPs) are a collection of three-character and four-character tokens that summarize a website’s privacy policy pertaining to cookies. User agents, including Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, use CPs to evaluate websites’ data collection practices and allow, reject, or modify cookies based on sites’ privacy practices. CPs can p...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor medications are one of the most common treatments for mood disorders. In humans, these medications are taken orally, usually once per day. Unfortunately, administration of antidepressant medications in rodent models is often through injection, oral gavage, or minipump implant, all relatively stressful procedures. The aim of the present study was to investi...