• Implementing USB Attacks with Microcontrollers 

      Rodríguez Ocasio, Alejandro (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      The USB specification has become one of the most prominent standards for interconnection between devices and peripherals. Its main objective is to provide ease of use and increase compatibility by implementing standard ...
    • Improving Robotics Competition Autonomous Operation by Using Sensors 

      Rivera Cruz, Elvin (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2013)
      The field of robotics has been growing rapidly in the last few years and is expected to continue rising. Therefore, we need to provide our middle and high school students with the tools and experiences to gain the ...
    • Informative Overview of Rainbow Hashes 

      Hornedo Martínez, Víctor (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      This article gives an overview for rainbow tables and the results of testing rainbow tables according to the length of the chosen chain. The article presents a password cracking process that contains its own ...
    • “Inside-Pics” 

      Rivera Valentin, Sheila M. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)
      The photography industry has grew and evolved through the times. Nowadays, cameras come with many features that allow users to adjust them as their preference with a minimum effort or knowledge. However, in the case ...
    • IoT Vulnerabilities in SCADA Systems 

      Rivera Barbosa, Jose (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2016)
      The emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) is an infrastructure of interconnected objects, people, systems and information resources together with intelligent services to allow them to process information ...
    • Is Your Wi-Fi Really Protected? 

      Santiago Laguna, Johnathan R. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)
      The purpose of thisproject will be testing a tool called ‘aircrack-ng suite’and perfomed a penetration test to a private network. This suite is a collection of tools that allows you to assess the strength ...
    • Jailbreak Vulnerability & Mobile Security Updates 

      Maldonado Burgos, Zedrick A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      In these modern times mobile devices are part of the everyday life of each individual. These devices contain a major part of each user information in comparison to their personal computers. On a mobile device people ...
    • Journey to becoming a hacker: from zero to cybersecurity ninja 

      Alicea Casillas, Yoshuam A. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      Time to time technology changes and the need for cyber security experts increases. While is true that lots of universities prepare students on this career, somehow students face trouble understanding how to acquire the ...
    • Minyx’s Dinner Food Ordering App 

      Mendoza Navarro, Michael J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2022)
      Smartphone applications are now a massive and valid field for exposure for companies, expansion of consumers’ needs, and convenience for quick and easy access to multiple activities, including gaming, sales, ...
    • Mobile Digital Forensic Tool using Santoku Linux 

      Acevedo Rivera, Pedro J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2017)
      Santoku 0.5 is a free and Open Source Linux Distribution dedicated to mobile forensics, mobile security, and mobile malware analysis. Santoku provides tools for; analyzing and acquiring data including free versions of ...
    • National Cyber League challenges as a way to teach Cybersecurity 

      Agosto Quiñones, André (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      Cybersecurity education is a relative new topic in most educational organizations today. This presents a problem to most educational institutions like universities who confront the challenge of teaching cybersecurity topics ...
    • Network Security Assessment using Bettercap: DNS Spoofing and How to Mitigate 

      Santiago Solivan, Rafael (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the demand for effective tools and techniques to safeguard networks from malicious actors is paramount. This master's degree final project proposes an investigation into the ...
    • Network Security Assessment – Work from Home 

      Correa Meléndez, Arturo E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2021)
      In the past two years, we have seen an increase in employees working from home. This is mainly due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of this a study was conducted on a home network that were being used to work from home. ...
    • Nutri-Fitness Tracker Web Application 

      Negrón Santiago, Josué J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      There are several health programs that intend to help people to drop weight in a natural manner. Novovida Health & Fitness is such a program, which promotes a better eating habit and physical activities in order to ...
    • Offensive Security Using Burp Suite 

      Torres, José (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2020)
      Burp Suite is a tool used by most professional web page pen tester. It has many features to help the pen tester do his job. The tool help students learn about different type of vulnerabilities like web cache poisoning, ...
    • An Overview of Web Scraping: Technical Aspects and Exercises 

      Pérez Molano, Gustavo (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      Researchers and organizations conducting different types of research can benefit from studying and using Web Scraping in a correct manner to further their research goals. This study serves as a review on some of the web ...
    • Portable HoneyPot & HoneyNet: Within a Closed Network 

      Concepción Rivera, Héctor D. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2015)
      At any given time a business network could be or has been compromised by a hacker or its information been exposed or breach. This is why building a honeypot and understanding how to use it can help network security ...
    • Predicting the Housing Market with Machine Learning 

      Díaz Martínez, José E. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2023)
      The aim of this project is to build a machine learning model for predicting housing market prices using a dataset that includes information about MSSubClass, MSZoning, LotArea, LotConfig, BldgType, OverallCond, YearBuilt, ...
    • Real Time Face Detection System 

      Nafi, Rushdi Nafi Hamdan (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2018)
      This paper presents details of a prototype for research project on face detection systems. The prototype uses Emgu CV cross platform .Net wrapper with the Intel OpenCV image processing library and C# .Net. The library ...
    • Reputation Scanner 

      Rios Soto, Azeem J. (Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico, 2019)
      The issue of security is paramount in any organization, especially one such as a bank. With the intention to improve bank security, a web application was developed. The application involves the scanning of uniform resource ...