An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a targeted attack against a high-value asset or a physical system. Drawing from analogies in the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, we illustrate potential strategies of deception and evasion available in this setting, and caution against overly narrow characterization of APTs.

The raison d'etre of the Airline Passenger Transportation System (APTS) is the rapid, affordable, and safe transportation of passengers (and cargo). Traditional APTS performance metrics, such as flight delays and cancellation rates, fail to account for the delays to passenger trips caused by cancelled flights, missed connections and diversions. Previous research estimated Passenger Trip Delays ...

S-acylation, the covalent attachment of palmitate and other fatty acids on cysteine residues, is a reversible post-translational modification that exerts diverse effects on protein functions. S-acylation is catalyzed by protein acyltransferases (PAT), while deacylation requires acyl-protein thioesterases (APT), with numerous inhibitors for these enzymes having already been developed and charact...

The clinicopathologic features of 472 ovarian epithelial clear cell neoplasms (4 adenofibromas [AFs], 41 atypical proliferative [borderline] tumors [APTs], and 427 carcinomas [CAs]) were studied in order to elucidate the morphologic steps involved in the pathogenesis of these tumors and determine whether clear cell CA is a type I or type II tumor in the dualistic model of ovarian carcinogenesis...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting acceptance and use APTS by its potential users. To achieve this, an integrated expanded user model introduced explain Behavioral Intention APTS. A total 316 surveys were conducted, from 275 participants online 41 face interviews. With data that are acquired Public Transportation (PT) users in Istanbul, Unified Theory Acceptance U...

Synthesis and characterization of novel Tea Tree Oil (TTO) loaded antibacterial polyurethane rigid foams using two distinct methods is reported. In the first method, 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTS) functionalized mesoporous silica was used as carrier TTO for preparing amino-functionalized (TTO-NH2-MCM-41). second one, encapsulated by via sol-gel then APTS, nanocontainers with amino groups (...

There is an exponential rise in the use of smartphones government and private institutions due to business dependencies such as communication, virtual meetings, access global information. These are attractive target for cybercriminals one leading causes cyber espionage sabotage. A large number sophisticated malware attacks well advanced persistent threats (APTs) have been launched on smartphone...

The main objective of this research was to synthesize and characterize gold-coated Fe3O4 /SiO2 nanoshells for clinical applications. Magnetite nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared via co-precipitation. The results showed that smaller particles can be synthesized by decreasing the NaOH concentration, which in our case this corresponded to 35 nm by using 0.9 M of NaOH at 750 rpm. The NPs were then m...