Final Year Project Showcase - 18 August 2023 [Part 2]

Detecting Chrome Extensions Vulnerabilities was one of the projects delivered by our Final Year Project (FYP) Group 9 students, during our recent FYP showcase.

Students from Goup 9 showcasing their project to judges and stakeholders.

With an abundance of over 130,000 Chrome extensions, many developers tend to prioritize the functionalities of these extensions without giving adequate attention to security measures. This oversight creates opportunities for potential vulnerabilities which can be exploited by attackers. In contrast to the numerous tools available for scanning vulnerabilities in web applications, there is a lack of resources focused on evaluating the security of Chrome extensions. Consequently, various vulnerabilities remain undetected, resulting in false negatives.

Some of the key value propositions of the final solution ScanExt are, 

• identify and scan for XSS vulnerabilities, with minimal user intervention through automation and
• generating a detailed and comprehensive report on the vulnerabilities that were uncovered.

Great job students!

If you are keen to be part of the FYP program and collaborate with Singapore Polytechnic School of Computing (SOC) to offer industry projects to students, kindly reach out to peter_wai_tong_lee@sp.edu.sg or mohamed_uvaise@sp.edu.sg.

Final Year Project Showcase - 18 August 2023 [Part 1]

A total of 13 groups of students were involved in the session on 18 August, showcasing the culmination of all their endeavours throughout the entire semester!

One of the projects was on the topic of AI in Cybersecurity, accomplished by our Final Year Project (FYP) Group 2 students. The students successfully developed a compelling proof of concept as a crucial component of their project. Notably, the students captivated the attention of project stakeholders as well as visitors who visited their booth during the FYP showcase, at our Cyber Watch Center (CWC) labs.

FYP Group 2 Students eagerly explaining their project.

The students went through intensive research, extensive development and testing in order to ensure technical feasibility of the solution as well as to achieve good user experience. The results included an AI powered network intrusion detection system - called the AI Network Watcher a.k.a ANW. Some key features are the application of a "random forest" classification model on Network Traffic, automatic alerting system leveraging on the Gmail API, a website that helps users streamline data allowing the extraction of valuable insights (i.e., benign or malicious) from the data collected, and many more! 

Kudos to the group for delivering a project that demonstrates the importance of AI, and how widespread its benefits are, specifically in the area of cybersecurity!

If you are keen to be part of the FYP program and collaborate with Singapore Polytechnic School of Computing (SOC) to offer industry projects to students, kindly reach out to peter_wai_tong_lee@sp.edu.sg or mohamed_uvaise@sp.edu.sg.