This article discusses a joint encryption-then-compression-based watermarking scheme for copyright protection and content verification in variety of applications. In this scheme, redundant discrete wavelet transform is first performed to decompose the nonsubsampled contourlet transform host image, and then, the singular value decomposition is applied on transformed coefficients of the host image. Furthermore

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Ransomware have observed a steady growth over the years with several concerning trends that indicate efficient, targeted attacks against organizations and individuals alike. These opportunistic attackers indiscriminately target both public and private sector entities to maximize gain. In this article, we highlight the criticality of key management in ransomware's cryptosystem in order to facilitate

Fake news are becoming a growing concern for several industrial sectors and the society at large. In this article, the authors explain why people are susceptible to fake news and what types of impact fake news can cause, taking examples from the agrifood and other sectors. By providing a concise yet insightful overview in the field, the authors discuss how advances in machine learning and semantic

The surge of content (such as fake news) in the last few years has made content deception an important area of research. We identify two main types of content deception based on either fake content or misleading content. We present a classification of deception attacks along with their delivery methods. We also discuss defense measures that can detect deception attacks. Finally, we highlight some outstanding

The rise of ubiquitous deepfakes, misinformation, disinformation, and post-truth, often referred to as fake news, raises concerns over the role of the Internet and social media in modern democratic societies. Due to its rapid and widespread diffusion, digital deception has not only an individual or societal cost, but it can lead to significant economic losses or to risks to national security. Blockchain

We introduce the concept of cyber-physical-social-mediated communication (CPS-C) and analyze why CPS-C is better than pure cyber-mediated communication for two popular applications: mobile social networks and mobile crowd sensing. CPS-C utilizes its unique characteristics (i.e., cyber-physical synchronization, human intelligence, and physical displacement) to bring benefits, including natural boundary

Change is difficult. A big organization that is set in their old ways of doing things will have big resistance to change. Transitioning to agile is one such change. There are several problems an enterprise would face when transitioning to agile from waterfall software development methodology. It might be as trivial as a team not being colocated, or it could be complete lack of trust between the development

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The articles in this special section focus on how digital technologies and applications will impact future generations.

The vast majority of basic research in formal methods takes place in halls of academia, yet the enormous amounts of applied use of formal methods quietly takes place in companies worldwide. So, while we will not avoid talking about research results and academic work, the main focus of this column is the evolution of the impact of formal methods in industry. That impact has grown from a rarely used

How should managers and executives assess the potential of emerging technologies? First, they should understand the technologies on the list. Next, they should identify the business models and processes to which they might be leveraged. They should understand how mature the technologies are and should “score” the technologies according to their pilot potential. Finally, they should find pilot sponsors

The articles in this special section focus on how digital technologies and applications will impact future generations.

The cultural transformation called digital health has been shaping the fundamental basics of healthcare since the beginning of the 21st century. The doctor–patient hierarchy has been transforming into an equal-level partnership. Patients are becoming empowered, thus giving birth to the empowered physician movement. The role of physicians has been changing from being the key holder to the ivory tower

This article presents key technological advances in the digital agriculture, which will have significant impact. Artificial intelligence-based techniques, together with big data analytics, address the challenges of agricultural production in terms of productivity and sustainability. Emerging new applications will transform agriculture from the traditional farm practices to a highly automated and data

The recent report on FinTech to the European Commission by the Expert Group on Regulatory Obstacles to Financial Innovation (ROFIEG), of which the author was a member, noted that just 19 of the 161 largest retail and commercial businesses globally are implementing digital transformation at scale. 3 However, over the next 10 years, Europe will grow its FinTech market with existing and new players deploying

The next generation of telecommunication networks will integrate the latest developments and emerging advancements in telecommunications connectivity infrastructures. In this article, we discuss the transformation and convergence of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network and the internet of things technologies, toward the emergence of the smart sixth-generation (6G) networks which will employ AI

We are living in a digital era, a time of Alexa and AlphaGo, of Facebook and Fitbit, of Twitter and TikTok. Remarkable opportunities lie ahead: smart technologies in the home, the convenience of deliveries by drone, the pleasure of riding to work in an autonomous vehicle. There are, of course, ethical implications to these advances. There are security implications associated with bringing smart technology

This article examines the potential impact of widespread adoption digital technologies on professions and the skills set required of existing and emerging new professions, illustrated with some characteristics use cases as examples.

Despite the critical importance of achieving business and IT alignment in organizations, its practical operationalization at the level of specific actors, decisions, and documents still remains rather shadowy. This paper explains the operationalization of alignment as a pipeline with five distinct decision-making phases: positioning, focusing, prioritizing, assessing, and implementing.

Although much effort has been devoted by both academic and industrial communities to improve the efficiency of urban passenger and package flows, current urban transport systems still fail to balance the speed and cost. To fill the gap, in this paper, we propose a novel form of transport system called crowdsourcing integrated transportation (CIT). It leverages the underused transport capacity which

Risk assessment use cases for cloud computing platforms are presented in the context of an ISO 27001 Information Security Management System developed for alcohol monitoring systems across a portfolio of products and services.

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The C programming language was invented more than 40 years ago. It is infamous for buffer overflows. We have learned a lot about computer science, language design, and software engineering since then. Because it is unlikely that we will stop using C any time soon, we present some ways to deal with BOF. Many of these techniques are also useful for other programing languages and other classes of vulnerabilities

Limited health literacy is a barrier to understanding health information. Simplifying text can reduce this barrier and possibly other known disparities in health. Unfortunately, few tools exist to simplify text with demonstrated impact on comprehension. By leveraging modern data sources integrated with natural language processing algorithms, we are developing the first semi-automated text simplification

This article outlines the challenge to understand how to integrate people into a new generation of cyber-physical-human systems (CPHSs) and proposes a human service capability description model to help.

The National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus Connect service extends the reach of the consumer health website MedlinePlus.gov to deliver relevant information to patients and providers via health IT systems, electronic health records, and patient portals.