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Dr. Paul A. Watters is a computer security researcher and practitioner, and active member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group. 

His mission is to build intelligence capability to detect or prevent cybercriminal acts or breaches of civil law. 

He has developed techniques in cybercrime attribution, profiling, and forensics, using data from phishing e-mails and websites, malicious code of various kinds, compromised hosts and P2P networks.  Dr. Watters continues to be fascinated by the critical role of the "human factor" in sociotechnical systems.

He has published a number of best-selling professional reference books as well as scientific and research publications.

His work has been cited 462 times and he has received research income of $1.345m since 2003.

Research - Forensics and Malware

• Alazab, M., Layton, R., Venkatraman, S. & Watters, P.A. (2010). Malware detection based on structural and behavioural features of API calls. Proceedings of the 2010 International Cyber Resilience Conference.
• Alazab, M., Venkatraman, S., & Watters, P.A. (2009). Digital forensic techniques for static analysis of NTFS images. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology, ICIT 2009.
• Alazab, M., Venkataraman, S. and Watters, P.A. (2010). Towards Understanding Malware Behaviour by the Extraction of API calls. Proceedings of the 2^nd Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2010)
• Lobo, D., Watters, P.A., & Wu, X. (2010). RBACS: Rootkit Behavioral Analysis and Classification System. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (WKDD 2010).
• Lobo, D., Watters, P.A. & Wu, X. (2010). A New Procedure to Help System/Network Administrators Identify Multiple Rootkit Infections. Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN 2010).
• Lobo, D., Watters, P.A. & Wu, X. (2010). Identifying rootkit infections using data mining. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2010).
• Lobo, D., Watters, P, Wu, X. and Sun, L. (2010). Windows Rootkits: Attacks and Countermeasures. Proceedings of the 2^nd Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2010)

Research - P2P Systems, Piracy and Filtering

• Prichard, J., Watters, P.A. & Spiranovic, C. (in press). Internet subcultures and pathways to the use of child pornography. Computer Law & Security Review.
  
• Wu, X.W., Watters, P. & Yearwood, J. (2008). New Traceability Codes and Identification Algorithm for Tracing Pirates. Proceedings of the IEEE Cybercrime Workshop, ISPA 2008, 719-724
• Mee, J. & Watters, P.A. (2006). Detecting and tracing copyright infringements in P2P networks. Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Networking (ICN 06), Mauritius
• Chong, S., Watters, P.A. & Hitchens, H. (2005). Automated physical storage provision using a peer-to-peer distributed file system. Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (21^st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2005), Tokyo, Japan
• Tran, H., Hitchens, M., Varadharajan, V. and Watters, P.A. (2005). A trust based access control framework for P2P file-sharing systems. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38), Honolulu HI, USA
• Ho, S. & Watters, P.A. (2005). Identifying and blocking pornographic content. Proceedings of the 1^st IEEE International Workshop on Managing Data for Emerging Multimedia Applications (21^st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2005), Tokyo, Japan.
• Tran, H., Watters, P.A., Hitchens, M. & Varadharajan, V. (2005). Trust and authorization in the Grid: A recommendation model. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS), Santorini, Greece
• Ho. S & Watters, P.A. (2004). Structural and statistical approaches to filtering Internet pornography. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, The Hague, Netherlands

Research - Profiling and Attribution (Applied)

• Layton, R., Watters, P.A. & Dazeley, R. (2011). Recentered local profiles for authorship attribution. Journal of Natural Language Engineering, in press.
  
• Watters, P.A. & McCombie, S. (2011). A methodology for analysing the credential marketplace. Journal of Money Laundering Control, 14(1), 32-43.
• Pan, J.A., Winchester, D., Land, L. & Watters, P.A. (2010). Descriptive data mining on fraudulent online dating profiles. Proceedings of the 18^th European Conference on Information Systems.
• Layton, R., Watters P.A., & Dazeley, R. (2010). Authorship Attribution for Twitter in 140 characters or less. Proceedings of the 2^nd Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2010)
• Layton, R., Watters, P.A. & Dazeley, R. (2010). Automatically Determining Phishing Campaigns using the USCAP Methodology. Proceedings of the 5^th APWG E-crime Research Summit
• Aston, M., McCombie, S., Reardon, B. & Watters, P.A. (2009). A Preliminary profiling of internet money mules: An Australian perspective. Proceedings of the Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2009).
• Layton, R., Brown, S. & Watters, P.A. (2009). Using differencing to increase distinctiveness for phishing website clustering. Proceedings of the 1^st Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2009).
• Layton, R., & Watters, P.A. (2009). Determining provenance of phishing websites using automated conceptual analysis. Proceedings of the APWG E-crime Research Summit.
• McCombie, S. Pieprzyk, J. & Watters, P.A. (2009). Cybercrime attribution: an eastern European case study. Proceedings of the 7th Australian Digital Forensics Conference.
• Ma., L., Ofoghi, B., Watters, P.A. & Brown, S. (2009). Detecting Phishing Emails Using Hybrid Features. Proceedings of the 1^st Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2009).
• Ma, L. Torney, R., Watters, P.A. & Brown, S. (2009). Automatically Generating Classifier for Phishing Email Prediction. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security Management (IASM 2009).
• Ma, L., Yearwood, J., & Watters, P.A. (2009). Establishing Phishing Provenance Using Orthographic Features. Proceedings of the APWG E-crime Research Summit.
• Watters, P.A. (2009). Why Do Users Trust The Wrong Messages? A Behavioural Model of Phishing. Proceedings of the APWG E-crime Research Summit
• McCombie, S., Watters, P.A., Ng, A. & Watson, B. (2008). Forensic Characteristics Of Phishing – Petty Theft or Organized Crime? Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST), Madeira, Portugal

Research - Profiling and Attribution (Theoretical)

• Pineda-Villavicenio, G., Perez, H., Dekker, T., & Watters, P.A. (In Press). The maximum degree & diameter-bounded subgraph and its applications. Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
• Kelarev, A.V., Yearwood, J.L., & Watters, P.A. (2011). A data mining application of the incidence semirings. Houston Journal of Mathematics, in press.
  
• Kelarev, A.V., Yearwood, J. L., Watters, P.A. (2011). Optimization of classifiers for data mining based on combinatorial semigroups.  Semigroup Forum, DOI: 10.1007/s00233-011-9298-6.
• Kelarev, A.V., Yearwood, J. L., Watters, P.A., Wu, X., Ma, L., Abawajy, J. & Pan, L. (2011). A Groebner-Shirshov algorithm for applications in internet security.  Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics, 35, 1-14.
• Kelarev, A.V., Yearwood, J. L., Watters, P.A, Wu, X., Abawajy, J. H. & Pan, L. (2010). Internet security applications of the Munn rings. Semigroup Forum, 81(1), 293-309.
• Kelarev, A., Yearwood, J. & Watters, P.A. (2010). Internet security applications of Groebner-Shirshov bases. Asian-European Journal of Mathematics, 3(3), 435-442.
• Kelarev, A., Watters, P. & Yearwood, J. (2009). Rees matrix constructions for clustering of data. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society, 87, 377-393.

Research - Security Governance and Standards

• Stabek, A., Watters, P.A. and Layton, R. (2010). The Seven Scam Types: Mapping the Terrain of Cybercrime. Proceedings of the 2^nd Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2010)
• Stabek, A., Brown, S., & Watters, P.A. (2009). The Case for a Consistent Cyberscam Classification Framework (CCCF). Proceedings of the 1^st Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2009).
  
• Watters, P.A. (2009). University Incorporated: Implications for Professional Information Security Education. Corporate Governance, 9(5), 564-572
• Watters, P.A. (2009). Data loss in the British Government: A bounty of credentials for organised crime. Proceedings of the Cybercrime and Trustworthy Computing Workshop (CTC-2009).
• Watters, P.A., Kuh, D., Latham, S., Shah, I., & Garwood, K. (2009). Enabling Access to British Birth Cohort Studies:  A Secure Web Interface for the NSHD (SWIFT). Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services (IEEE Healthcom 2009).
• Ruiz, S. & Watters, P.A. (2006). Distributed service and data exchange: A case study of the Ecuadorian legal system. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on the e-Society, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Taylor, S. & Watters, P.A. (2005). Trustworthy e-mail using secure XML Web Services. Proceedings of the 7^th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology, Munich, Germany.

Research - Biometrics

• Ho, W.H., Watters, P.A. & Verity, D. (2007). Robustness of the new owner-tester approach for face recognition experiments. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition – Biometrics Workshop, Minneapolis, USA.
• Ho, W.H. & Watters, P.A. (2007). A New Performance Evaluation Method for Face Identification – Regression on Misidentified Risk. Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Minneapolis, USA.
• Ho, W.H., Watters, P.A. & Verity, D. (2007). Are younger people more difficult to identify or just a peer-to-peer effect? Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, Vienna, Austria.
• Zeng, Z. & Watters, P.A. (2007). A face hashing algorithm using mutual information and feature fusion. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, UK.
• Zeng, Z. & Watters, P.A. (2007). A novel face hashing method with feature fusion. Proceedings of the 4^th European Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks, Toulouse, France
• Bachurina, O. & Watters, P.A. (2006). Multi fingerprint biometric verification using XML Web Services: A funds transfer case study. Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, Canterbury, UK
• Watters, P.A. (2006). Are sparse-coding simple cell receptive field models physiologically plausible? Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 5, 333-353
• Ho, S. & Watters, P.A. (2005). Ecological validity of face recognition research. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security, X’ian, China
• Watters, P.A. (2004). Coding distributed representations of natural scenes: A comparison of orthogonal and non-orthogonal models. Neurocomputing, 61, 277-289.
• Watters, P.A. (2003). Distributed variance in localised principal components of whitened natural scenes. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 17(8), 1-16.
• Watters, P.A. (2003). Distributed coding efficiency in orthogonal models of facial processing. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2(2), 249-262.
• Willmore, B., Watters, P.A. & Tolhurst, D.J. (2000). A comparison of natural-image-based models of simple-cell coding. Perception, 29(9), 1017-1039.

Research - Human Factors

• Bruck, S. & Watters, P.A. (in press). The factor structure of cybersickness. Displays.
  
• Bruck, S. & Watters, P.A. (2010).  Does Notebook-Based, Accessible Simulation Training Create Cybersickness? Proceedings of the SimTecT 2010 Conference Proceedings.
• Bruck, S. & Watters, P.A. (2010). Accessible Virtual Reality Therapy Using Portable Media Devices. Proceedings of the 15^th Annual Cyberpsychology & Cybertherapy Conference; Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 154, 87-91.
• Bruck, S., & Watters, P.A. (2009). Autonomic Nervous System Factors Underlying Anxiety in Virtual Environments. Proceedings of the 15^th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2009).
• Bruck, S. & Watters, P.A. (2009). Cybersickness and anxiety during simulated motion: Implications for VRET. Proceedings of the 14^th Annual International CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference (CT14), 2009
• Bruck, S., & Watters, P.A. (2009). Estimating Cybersickness of Simulated Motion Using the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ): A Controlled Study. Proceedings of the 6^th International Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV)
• Watters, P.A., Martin, F. & Stripf, S. (2008). Visual detection of LSB-encoded natural image steganography. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 5(1), 1-12.
• Watters, P.A., Martin, F. & Stripf, S. (2007). Visual detection of high capacity natural image steganography: Is a known cover effective? Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, London, UK
• Watters, P.A., Martin, F. & Stripf, S. (2005). Visual steganalysis of LSB-encoded natural images. Proceedings of the 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, Sydney, Australia

Press Coverage

• Arrr, we pillage a fine booty of free films

• Searches for child porn as popular as Harry Potter: study

• Gone Phishing
  

• Boslaugh, S. & Watters, P.A. (2008). Statistics in a Nutshell. O'Reilly.
  
• Watters, P.A. (2005). Solaris 10: The Complete Reference. Osborne McGraw Hill.
• Watters, P.A. (2004). Web Services in Finance. Apress.
• O’Neill, M., Hallam-Baker, P., Mac Cann, S., Shema, M., Simon, E., Watters, P. & White, A. (2003). Web Services Security. Osborne McGraw Hill.
• Watters, P.A. (2002). Solaris 9 Certification All-In-One Study Guide. Osborne McGraw Hill.