Luca Caviglione

IMATI | Research Scientist | Nov 2020

Senior Researcher

Luca Caviglione holds a PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy. In 2007 he was with the Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications. From April 2007 to July 2018 he was with the Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation of the National Research Council of Italy. His research interests include optimization of Internet-scale infrastructures, wireless and satellite communications and network security, with emphasis on information hiding, covert channels and network steganography. He is author or co-author of more than 130 academic publications and several patents in the field of peer-to-peer. He has been involved in research projects funded by the European Union, the European Space Agency, the Italian Ministry of Research and Siemens COM MN AG. He is involved in the technical program committee of several international conferences and he is in the editorial board of many international journals. He is a work group leader of the Italian IPv6 Task Force, a contract professor in the field of networking and security, and a professional engineer. From June 2016, he is in the steering committee of the Criminal Use of Information Hiding initiative supported by the European Cybercrime Centre.

Research Activity

Information Hiding, Network Steganography, Covert Channels, Energy-Aware Cybersecurity, Optimization of large-scale Internet services, Networking.

Projects

Aspetti di sicurezza

Elaborazione HPC

SIMARGL

Other Projects

RAISE

Publications

Journal Publications

2022, Journal article
Analysis of Reversible Network Covert Channels
Przemyslaw Szary, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Steffen Wendzel, Luca Caviglione
IEEE access 10 pp. 41226-41238
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3168018.

2022, Journal article
Code Layering for the Detection of Network Covert Channels in Agentless Systems
M. Zuppelli, M. Repetto, A. Schaffhauser, W. Mazurczyk, L. Caviglione
IEEE eTransactions on network and service management
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2022.3176752

2022, Editorial in journal
Guest Editorial: Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies
S. Wendzel, L. Caviglione, A. Mileva, J.-F. Lalande, W. Mazurczyk
IT. Information technology 64(1-2) pp. 1-3
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1515/itit-2022-0016

2022, Editorial in journal
Guest Editorial: Security and Privacy Issues of Home Globalization
Luca Caviglione, Steffen Wendzel, Simon Vrhovec, Aleksandra Mileva
IEEE security & privacy 20(1) pp. 10-11
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/MSEC.2021.3127372

2022, Journal article
Information Hiding in the DICOM Message Service and Upper Layer Service with Entropy-Based Detection
Aleksandra Mileva, Aleksandar Velinov, Vesna Dimitrova, Luca Caviglione, Steffen Wendzel
Entropy (Basel, Online) 24(2) pp. 1-23
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.3390/e24020176

2022, Journal article
IPv6CC: IPv6 Covert Channels for Testing Networks Against Stegomalware and Data Exfiltration
L. Caviglione, A. Schaffhauser, M. Zuppelli, W. Mazurczyk
Softwarex (Amsterdam) 17 pp. 1-7
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2022.100975

2022, Journal article
Never Mind The Malware, Here's The Stegomalware
Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk
IEEE security & privacy 20(5) pp. 101-106
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/MSEC.2022.3178205

2021, Journal article
Covert Channels in Transport Layer Security: Performance and Security Assessment
Corinna Heinz, Marco Zuppelli, Luca Caviglione
Journal of wireless mobile networks, ubiquitous computing and dependable applications 12(4) pp. 22-36
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.22667/JOWUA.2021.12.31.022

2021, Journal article
Cyber Reconnaissance Techniques
Wojciech Mazurczyk and Luca Caviglione
Communications of the ACM 64(3) pp. 86-95
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3418293

2021, Journal article
Deep Adversarial Learning on Google Home Devices
Andrea Ranieri, Davide Caputo, Luca Verderame, Alessio Merlo, Luca Caviglione
Journal of internet services and information security 11(4) pp. 33-43
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.22667/JISIS.2021.11.30.033

2021, Editorial in journal
Emerging Topics in Defending Networked Systems
Steffen Wendzel, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Luca Caviglione, Amir Houmansadr
Future generation computer systems pp. 1-6
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2021.10.010

2021, Editorial in journal
Guest Editorial: Multidisciplinary Solutions to Modern Cybersecurity Challenges
Luca Caviglione, Steffen Wendzel, Aleksandra Mileva, and Simon Vrhovec
Journal of wireless mobile networks, ubiquitous computing and dependable applications 12(4) pp. 1-3
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.22667/JOWUA.2021.12.31.001

2021, Journal article
Kernel-level Tracing for Detecting Stegomalware and Covert Channels in Linux Environments
Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Matteo Repetto, Andreas Schaffhauser, and Marco Zuppelli
Computer networks (1999) pp.tot 12
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2021.108010

2021, Journal article
Multiobjective Placement for Secure and Dependable Smart Industrial Environments
L. Caviglione and M. Gaggero
IEEE transactions on industrial informatics 17(2) pp. 1298-1306
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/TII.2020.2978771

2021, Journal article
Tight Arms Race: Overview of Current Malware Threats and Trends in Their Detection
L. Caviglione, M. Choras, I. Corona, A. Janicki, W. Mazurczyk, M. Pawlicki, K. Wasielewska
IEEE access 9 pp. 5371-5396
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3048319

2021, Journal article
Trends and Challenges in Network Covert Channels Countermeasures
Luca Caviglione
Applied sciences 11(4) pp. 1-16
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.3390/app11041641

2020, Journal article
A Holistic Model for Security of Learning Applications in Smart Cities
L. Caviglione and M. Coccoli
JE-LKS. Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society 16(1) pp. 1-10
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.20368/1971-8829/1135031

2020, Journal article
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Objective Placement of Virtual Machines in Cloud Datacenters
Luca Caviglione, Mauro Gaggero, Massimo Paolucci, Roberto Ronco
Soft computing (Berl., Print) pp.tot 20
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1007/s00500-020-05462-x

2020, Journal article
Fine-hearing Google Home: why silence will not protect your privacy
Davide Caputo, Luca Verderame, Andrea Ranieri, Alessio Merlo, Luca Caviglione
Journal of wireless mobile networks, ubiquitous computing and dependable applications 11(1) pp. 35-53
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.22667/JOWUA.2020.03.31.035

2020, Editorial in journal
Guest Editorial: Information Security Methodology, Replication Studies and Information Security Education
Steffen Wendzel, Luca Caviglione, Alessandro Checco, Aleksandra Mileva, Jean-Francois Lalande, Wojciech Mazurczyk
Journal of universal computer science 26(7) pp. 762-763
CNR@IRIS | Link

2020, Journal article
Not all areas are equal: analysis of citations in information security research
S. Wendzel, C. Lévy-Bencheton, and L. Caviglione
Scientometrics 122(1) pp. 267-286
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03279-6

2020, Journal article
VoIP Network Covert Channels to Enhance Privacy and Information Sharing
J. Saenger, W. Mazurczyk, J. Keller and Luca Caviglione
Future generation computer systems 111 pp. 96-106
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2020.04.032

2019, Journal article
Model predictive control for energy-efficient, quality-aware, and secure virtual machine placement
M. Gaggero; L. Caviglione
IEEE transactions on automation science and engineering 16(1) pp. 420-432
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2018.2826723

2019, Editorial in journal
Recent Advancements in Digital Forensics, Part 2
W. Mazurczyk, L. Caviglione and S. Wendzel
IEEE security & privacy 17(1) pp. 7-8
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/MSEC.2019.2896857

2019, Journal article
When time matters: predictive mission planning in cyber-physical scenarios
M. Gaggero, D. Di Paola, A. Petitti, and L. Caviglione
IEEE access 7(1) pp. 11246-11257
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2892310

2018, Journal article
Exploiting IP telephony with silence suppression for hidden data transfers
S. Schmidt, W. Mazurczyk, R. Kulesza, J. Keller and L. Caviglione
Computers & security 79 pp. 17-32
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2018.08.006

2018, Journal article
IEEE 802.15.4 Air-Ground UAV Communications in Smart Farming Scenarios
Bacco M.; Berton A.; Gotta A.; Caviglione L.
IEEE communications letters 22(9) pp. 1910-1913
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2018.2855211

2018, Editorial in journal
Security mechanisms and data access protocols in innovative wireless networks
A.S.K. Pathan, S. Azad, R. Khan, and L. Caviglione
International journal of distributed sensor networks 14(9) pp.tot 2
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1177/1550147718801476

2018, Journal article
Smart e-learning systems with big data
L. Caviglione and M. Coccoli
International Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications 64(4) pp. 445-450
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.24425/123544

2015, Journal article
A survey on energy-aware security mechanisms
Merlo, Alessio; Migliardi, Mauro; Caviglione, Luca
Pervasive and mobile computing 24 pp. 77-90
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2015.05.005

2015, Journal article
Steganography in Modern Smartphones and Mitigation Techniques
Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk
IEEE Communications surveys and tutorials 17(1)
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2350994

Part of book

2022, Essay or book chapter
Privacy-Leaking and Steganographic Threats in Wireless Connected Environments
Luca Caviglione
Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies pp. 17-34, edited by Al-Sakib Khan Pathan. Springer Nature Switzerland, 978-3-031-04321-5
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04321-5_2

2020, Essay or book chapter
Investigating Traffic of Smart Speakers and IoT Devices: Security Issues and Privacy Threats
D. Caputo, L. Verderame, A. Merlo and L. Caviglione
Internet of Things and Secure Smart Environments: Success and Pitfalls, edited by U. Ghosh, D. B. Rawat, R. Datta and A.-S. K. Phatan. Taylor & Francis
CNR@IRIS

2020, Essay or book chapter
Teaching Cyber Security through Distance Learning with International Students
K. Cabaj, L. Caviglione, P. Georgi, J. Keller, W. Mazurczyk and A. Schaffhauser
Innovation in Cybersecurity Education pp. 303-324, edited by K. Daimi, G. Francia. Springer Nature Switzerland, 978-3-030-50243-0
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50244-7_15

2019, Essay or book chapter
Advanced Information Hiding Techniques for Modern Botnets
Luca Caviglione, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Steffen Wendzel
Botnets: Architectures, Countermeasures, and Challenges pp. 165-188, edited by Georgios Kambourakis, Marios Anagnostopoulos, Weizhi Meng, Peng Zhou. CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, 9780367191542
CNR@IRIS

Conference proceedings

2022, Conference communications
Strumenti Intelligenti per Threat Detection e Response
Francesco Sergio Pisani, Silvia Biasotti, Nunziato Cassavia, Luca Caviglione, Gianluigi Folino, Massimo Guarascio, Giuseppe Manco, Marco Zuppelli
pp.tot 4 (Ital-IA: Secondo Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Torino, online, 9-11/02/2022)
CNR@IRIS | Link

2021, Conference proceedings
A Revised Taxonomy of Steganography Embedding Patterns
S. Wendzel, L. Caviglione, W. Mazurczyk, A. Mileva, J. Dittmann, C. Krätzer, K. Lamshöft, C. Vielhauer, L. Hartmann, J. Keller, T. Neubert
, ACM, Association for computing machinery (3rd International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies congiuntamente con la 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), All-Digital Conference (per pandemia Covid-19), 17-20/08/2021)
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3465481.3470069

2021, Conference proceedings
bccstego: A Framework for Investigating Network Covert Channels
M. Repetto, L. Caviglione, M. Zuppelli
(5th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding congiuntamente con la 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), All-digital (per pandemia covid-19), 17-20/08/2021)
CNR@IRIS | Link

2021, Conference proceedings
Code Augmentation for Detecting Covert Channels Targeting the IPv6 Flow Label
L. Caviglione, M. Zuppelli, W. Mazurczyk, A. Schaffhauser, M. Repetto
2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) pp. 1-7 (The 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures (SecSoft 21), Tokyo, Giappone (online per pandemia covid-19), 2/7/2021), 978-1-6654-0522-5
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft51509.2021.9492661

2021, Conference proceedings
Crème de la Crème: Lessons from Papers in Security Publications
S. Vrhovec, L. Caviglione, S. Wendzel
ARES 2021: The 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security pp. 1-9 (ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series) (3rd International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies congiuntamente con la 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), All-digital (per pandemia Covid-19), 17-20/08/2021), 978-1-4503-9051-4
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3465481.3470027

2021, Conference proceedings
Detecting Covert Channels Through Code Augmentation
M. Zuppelli, L. Caviglione, M. Repetto
Proceedings of the Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC 2021) pp. 133-144 (CEUR workshop proceedings 2940), edited by Armando, Alessandro; Colajanni, Michele., CEUR-WS.org (ITASEC - Italian Conference on CyberSecurity, Online (per pandemia covid-19), 7-9/4/2021)
CNR@IRIS

2021, Conference proceedings
pcapStego: A Tool for Generating Traffic Traces for Experimenting with Network Covert Channels
M. Zuppelli, L. Caviglione
(3rd International Workshop on Information Security Methodology and Replication Studies congiuntamente con la 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), All-digital (per pandemia covid-19), 17-20/08/2021)
CNR@IRIS | Link

2021, Conference communications
Rilevamento Efficiente di Covert Channel Preservando la Riservatezza del Traffico
Marzo Zuppelli, Luca Caviglione, Corrado Pizzi, Matteo Repetto
(Conferenza GARR: Sostenibile/Digitale - Dati e Tecnologie per il Futuro, Online (per pandemia Covid-19), 07-16/06/2021)
CNR@IRIS | Link

2021, Conference proceedings
Risks and Opportunities for Information Hiding in DICOM Standard
A. Mileva, L. Caviglione, A. Velinov, S. Wendzel, V. Dimitrova
(5th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding congiuntamente con la 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2021), All-digital (per pandemia covid-19), 17-20/98/2021)
CNR@IRIS | Link

2021, Conference proceedings
Sanitization of Images Containing Stegomalware via Machine Learning Approaches
M. Zuppelli, G. Manco, L. Caviglione, M. Guarascio
Proceedings of the Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC 2021) pp. 347-386 (CEUR workshop proceedings), edited by Armando, Alessandro; Colajanni, Michele. (ITASEC - Italian Conference on CyberSecurity, on line (per pandemia covid-19), 7-9/04/2021)
CNR@IRIS

2020, Conference proceedings
Are you (Google) Home? Detecting Users Presence through Traffic Analysis of Smart Speakers
D. Caputo, L. Verderame, A. Merlo, A. Ranieri and L. Caviglione
Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Cyber Security pp. 105-118 (CEUR workshop proceedings), edited by M. Loreti, L. Spalazzi. (Italian Conference on Cybersecurity (ITASEC20), Ancona, 4-7/2/2020)
CNR@IRIS | Link

2020, Conference proceedings
Covert Channels in Transport Layer Security
Corinna Heinz, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Luca Caviglione
EICC 2020 : Proceedings of the European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference pp.tot 6, ACM Press (European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference, Rennes, Francia, 18-19/11/2020), 978-1-4503-7599-3
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3424954.3424962

2020, Conference proceedings
Design and Performance Evaluation of Reversible Network Covert Channels
Przemyslaw Szary, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Steffen Wendzel, Luca Caviglione
ARES '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security pp.tot 8 (ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series), Association Of Computing Machinery (ACM) (CUING 2020 - 4th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding congiuntamente svolto con la 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, University College of Dublin, Dublino, Irlanda (in modalità telematica a causa di Covid-19), 25-28/08/2020), 978-1-4503-8833-7
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3407023.3409215

2020, Conference proceedings
Programmable Data Gathering for Detecting Stegomalware
A. Carrega, L. Caviglione, M. Repetto and M. Zuppelli
(2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Security Threats, Trust and Privacy Management in Software-defined and Virtualized Infrastructures (SecSoft), Ghent, Belgium, 3/07/2020)
CNR@IRIS

2020, Conference proceedings
Stegomalware Detection Through Structural Analysis of Media Files
Damian Puchalski, Luca Caviglione, Rafal Kozik, Adrian Marzecki, Slawomir Krawczyk, Michal Choras
ARES '20: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security pp.tot 6 (ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series), Association Of Computing Machinery (ACM) (CUING 2020 - 4th International Workshop on Criminal Use of Information Hiding congiuntamente svolto con la 15th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, University College of Dublin, Dublino, Irlanda (in modalità telematica a causa di Covid-19), 25-28/08/2020), 978-1-4503-8833-7
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3407023.3409187

2019, Conference proceedings
IPv6 Covert Channels in the Wild
W. Mazurczyk, K. Powójski, and L. Caviglione
CECC 2019: Proceedings of the Third Central European Cybersecurity Conference, edited by Simon Vrhovec., ACM - Association for Computing Machinery (CECC 2019: Central European Cybersecurity Conference, Munich, Germany, 14-15/11/2019), 978-1-4503-7296-1
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145%2F3360664

2019, Conference proceedings
Towards reversible storage network covert channels
W. Mazurczyk, P. Szary, S. Wendzel and L. Caviglione
ARES '19: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security pp.tot 8 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series), ACM, Association for computing machinery (14th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 29/08/2019), 978-1-4503-7164-3
CNR@IRIS | DOI: 10.1145/3339252.3341493