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Alberto Giaretta

Position: Researcher School/office: School of Science and Technology

Email: alberto.giaretta@oru.se

Phone: No number available

Room: T2234

Research subject

Computer Science

Research environments

Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS)

About Alberto Giaretta

Alberto Giaretta holds a BSc and a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Padova, Italy, and he has been a PhD student at Örebro University from 2016 to 2021. In 2021, he defended his PhD thesis in Computer Science by the title of "Securing the Internet of Things with Security-by-Contract. Specifically, he investigated how it would be possible to improve IoT devices' security by enriching them with formal descriptions of their relevant security behaviour.

Research

Alberto's research is primarily focused on cyber-security and bio-inspired nanonetworks. He has been author or co-author of different peer-reviewed papers, published on prestigious venues, such as IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC-CS). One of his works, which has been covered by the MIT Technology Review magazine, investigates the challenges of storing digital information inside the DNA of bacteria and physically delivering this information to a destination.

Teaching

Alberto has been co-responsible of two courses, the Introduction to IT Security (Code IK404A) and the Computer Security (Code DT508A), for the Second Cycle Course in Informatics and the Second Cycle Course in Computer Science, respectively. In both courses, he developed part of the course materials and labs, and he gave classroom lectures.

Active projects

Private Rule-Making and European Governance of AI & Robotics

Completed projects

E-care@home

Research groups

Machine Perception and Interaction Lab

Publications

Articles in journals

Giaretta, A. & Loutfi, A. (2023). On the people counting problem in smart homes: undirected graphs and theoretical lower-bounds. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 14 (4), 3839-3851.
Tavella, F. , Giaretta, A. , Conti, M. & Balasubramaniam, S. (2022). A machine learning-based approach to detect threats in bio-cyber DNA storage systems. Computer Communications, 187, 59-70.
Pirayesh, J. , Giaretta, A. , Conti, M. & Keshavarzi, P. (2022). A PLS-HECC-based device authentication and key agreement scheme for smart home networks. Computer Networks, 216.
Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. & Massacci, F. (2022). S×C4IoT: A Security-by-contract Framework for Dynamic Evolving IoT Devices. ACM transactions on sensor networks, 18 (1).
Tavella, F. , Giaretta, A. , Dooley-Cullinane, T. M. , Conti, M. , Coffey, L. & Balasubramaniam, S. (2021). DNA Molecular Storage System: Transferring Digitally Encoded Information through Bacterial Nanonetworks. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 9 (3), 1566-1580.
Mazzara, M. , Dragoni, N. , Bucchiarone, A. , Giaretta, A. , Larsen, S. T. & Dustdar, S. (2021). Microservices: Migration of a Mission Critical System. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 14 (5), 1464-1477.
Herskind, L. , Giaretta, A. , De Donno, M. & Dragoni, N. (2020). BitFlow: Enabling Real‐time Cash‐flow Evaluations through Blockchain. Concurrency and Computation, 32 (12).
De Donno, M. , Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. , Bucchiarone, A. & Mazzara, M. (2019). Cyber-Storms Come from Clouds: Security of Cloud Computing in the IoT Era. Future Internet, 11 (6).
Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. & Massacci, F. (2019). IoT Security Configurability with Security-by-Contract. Sensors, 19 (19).
De Donno, M. , Dragoni, N. , Giaretta, A. & Spognardi, A. (2018). DDoS-Capable IoT Malwares: Comparative Analysis and Mirai Investigation. Security and Communication Networks.
Giaretta, A. , Balasubramaniam, S. & Conti, M. (2016). Security Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures for Target Localization in Bio-NanoThings Communication Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11 (4), 665-676.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Chimamiwa, G. , Giaretta, A. , Alirezaie, M. , Pecora, F. & Loutfi, A. (2022). Are Smart Homes Adequate for Older Adults with Dementia?. Sensors, 22 (11).

Conference papers

Zhu, Y. , Chen, Z. , Yan, Q. , Wang, S. , Giaretta, A. , Li, E. , Peng, L. , Zhao, C. & et al. (2023). Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders. In: Michele Zorzi; Meixia Tao; Walid Saad, ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2023), Rome, Italy, May 28 - June 1, 2023. (pp. 2338-2344). IEEE.
Ritola, N. , Giaretta, A. & Kiselev, A. (2023). Operator Identification in a VR-Based Robot Teleoperation Scenario Using Head, Hands, and Eyes Movement Data. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), 2023. Paper presented at 6th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI '23), Stockholm, Sweden, March 13-16, 2023. Association for Computing Machinery.
Thomsen, M. D. , Giaretta, A. & Dragoni, N. (2021). Smart Lamp or Security Camera? Automatic Identification of IoT Devices. In: Ghita, Bogdan; Shiaeles, Stavros, Selected Papers from the 12th International Networking Conference. Paper presented at 12th International Networking Conference (INC 2020), Rhodes, Greece, September 19-21, 2020 (Virtual Conference). (pp. 85-99). Springer International Publishing.
Matthíasson, G. , Giaretta, A. & Dragoni, N. (2020). IoT Device Profiling: From MUD Files to S×C Contracts. In: Roßnagel, H., Schunck, C. H., Mödersheim, S. & Hühnlein, D., Open Identity Summit 2020. Paper presented at Open Identity Summit 2020 (OID2020). (pp. 143-154). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V..
Sigurdsson, G. , Giaretta, A. & Dragoni, N. (2020). Vulnerabilities and Security Breaches in Cryptocurrencies. In: Ciancarini, P.; Mazzara, M.; Messina, A.; Sillitti, A.; Succi, G., Proceedings of 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications. Paper presented at 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications (SEDA 2018), Rome, Italy, June 7-8, 2018. Springer.
Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. & Massacci, F. (2019). Protecting the Internet of Things with Security-by-Contract and Fog Computing. In: 2019 IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). Paper presented at 5th IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2019), Limerick, Ireland, April 15-18, 2019. IEEE.
Giaretta, A. , Pepe, S. & Dragoni, N. (2019). UniquID: A Quest to Reconcile Identity Access Management and the IoT. In: Mazzara M., Bruel JM., Meyer B., Petrenko A., Software Technology Methods and Tools. Paper presented at 51st International Conference on Software Technology: Methods and Tools (TOOLS 2019), Innopolis, Russia, October 15-17, 2019. (pp. 237-251). Cham: Springer.
Giaretta, A. , De Donno, M. & Dragoni, N. (2018). Adding Salt to Pepper: A Structured Security Assessment over a Humanoid Robot. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. Paper presented at 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018), Hamburg, Germany, August 27-30, 2018. ACM.
De Donno, M. , Dragoni, N. , Giaretta, A. & Mazzara, M. (2018). AntibIoTic: Protecting IoT Devices Against DDoS Attacks. In: Ciancarini, P.; Litvinov, S.; Messina, A.; Sillitti, A.; Succi, G., Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications SEDA 2016. Paper presented at 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications, Rome, Italy, May 10, 2016. (pp. 59-72). Cham: Springer.
Giaretta, A. & Dragoni, N. (2018). Community Targeted Phishing: A Middle Ground Between Massive and Spear Phishing through Natural Language Generation. Paper presented at 6th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications (SEDA 2018), Rome, Italy, June 7-8, 2018.
Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. & Mazzara, M. (2018). Joining Jolie to Docker: Orchestration of Microservices on a Containers-as-a-Service Layer. In: Ciancarini, P.; Litvinov, S.; Messina, A.; Sillitti, A.; Succi, G., Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications SEDA 2016. Paper presented at 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications, Rome, Italy, May 10, 2016. (pp. 167-175). Cham: Springer.
Dragoni, N. , Giaretta, A. & Mazzara, M. (2018). The Internet of Hackable Things. In: Ciancarini, P.; Litvinov, S.; Messina, A.; Sillitti, A.; Succi, G., Proceedings of 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications SEDA 2016. Paper presented at 5th International Conference in Software Engineering for Defence Applications, Rome, Italy, May 10, 2016. (pp. 129-140). Cham: Springer.
De Donno, M. , Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. & Spognardi, A. (2017). A Taxonomy of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. In: Charles A. Shoniregun, Galyna A. Akmayeva, i-Society 2017 Proceedings. Paper presented at International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2017), Dublin, Ireland, July 17-19, 2017. (pp. 99-106). Infonomics Society.
De Donno, M. , Dragoni, N. , Giaretta, A. & Spognardi, A. (2017). Analysis of DDoS-Capable IoT Malwares. In: M. Ganzha, L. Maciaszek, M. Paprzycki, Proceedings of the 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. Paper presented at Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017), Prague, Czech Republic, September 3-6, 2017. (pp. 807-816). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Giaretta, A. (2021). Securing the Internet of Things with Security-by-Contract. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.

Manuscripts

Giaretta, A. , Dragoni, N. & Massacci, F. S×C4IoT : A Security-by-Contract Framework for Dynamic Evolving IoT Devices.