Publications

Research Blog and Cybersecurity News

  • Rei Meguro and Ng S. T. Chong, AdaPhish: AI-Powered Adaptive Defense and Education Resource Against Deceptive Emails, 4th IEEE International Conference on AI in Cybersecurity (ICAIC).
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Beyond the URL: A Live Demo of Credential and Token Theft, Cybersecurity Webinar Series, United Nations University, November 2024.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Practical Solutions for Detecting and Mitigating MFA Bypass Attacks, Presented at the 2024 UNU ICT Workshop, Macau, 2024.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Proposal for Microsoft: Strengthening Azure Identity Protection through Innovative Proactive Alerts, United Nations University, May 2024.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Presented the UNU Data Loss Prevention Program at the 2023 UN-CEB-DTN-Information Security Special Interest Group (UNISSIG) hosted by UNICEF, Valencia, Spain.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Presented UN-CEB-DTN Minimum Cybersecurity Baseline version 3 at the 2023 DTN Spring session hosted by the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC. The baseline was subsequently approved by the UN-CEB-DTN.
  • Yuwei Sun, Ng S. T. Chong, Hideya Ochiai, Feature Distribution Matching for Federated Domain Generalization, 14th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, 2022.
  • Yuwei Sun, Ng S. T. Chong, Hideya Ochiai, Federated Phish Bowl: LSTM-Based Decentralized Phishing Email Detection, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2022. It also appears in IEEE Xplore.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Threat Hunting: SAML Vulnerability Allows G Suite User Impersonation via Active Directory, September 2021.
  • Yuwei Sun, Ng S. T. Chong, Hideya Ochiai, Information Stealing in Federated Learning Systems Based on Generative Adversarial Networks, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC), 2021.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Threat Hunting: Security Vulnerability in Mac Version of Microsoft Outlook Allows Concealment of Link Addresses. Findings were disclosed to Microsoft in April 2021.
  • Yuwei Sun, Ng S. T. Chong, Hideya Ochiai, Network Flows-Based Malware Detection Using A Combined Approach of Crawling And Deep Learning, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, 2021.
  • Yuwei Sun, Ng S. T. Chong, Hideya Ochiai, Text-based Malicious Domain Names Detection Based on Variational Autoencoder And Supervised Learning, 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2020.
  • Yuwei Sun, Ng S. T. Chong, Hideya Ochiai, Malicious Domain Names Detection Based on TF-IDF and Variational Autoencoder: Classification with Quantum-enhanced Support Vector Machine. Proceedings of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Tech. Rep., vol. 119, no. 275, SC2019-23, pp. 19-23, November 2019.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, UNU ICT Roadmap 2016-2017, January 2016.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Next Generation Project Management Roadmap, December 2015.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Next Generation Intranet – Key Design Elements, September 2014.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, UNU ICT Strategy 2014-2019, March 2014.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, invited speaker for the Roundtable Discussion on Evidence-based policy making in addressing wildlife crime – The role of scientists, NGOs, national policymakers and UN agencies in bringing about a transboundary enforcement monitoring system, Tokyo Conference on Combating Wildlife Crime, March 2014. Photos and WEMS Initiative
  • Chandran, R., Chong, N.S.T., Doll, C., Lee, Y.L., Mathai, V., & Nguyen, K. “Bytes Beyond Borders: Strengthening Transboundary Information Sharing on Wildlife Crime through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) Initiative“, Policy Brief (pp. 8), United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, February 2013.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “United Nations University Flexible Computer Strategy“, C3 Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2, August 22, 2012
  • Ng S. T. Chong “UN University ERP Roadmap“, presentation delivered at the IPSAS training workshop, June 1, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “United Nations Cloud for the Advancement of Information Ecosystem in Africa with a Special Focus on Wildlife Enforcement”, presentation at Kenya Wildlife Service Headquarters, May 23-25, 2011, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “Multi-Data Center Model and Architecture“, Technical Paper, April 7, 2011, Tokyo, Japan,
  • Ng S. T. Chong “UN University ICT Governance“, Discussion Paper, February 17, 2011, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “UN University One Computer and Open Networking Strategy“, Technical report, November 1, 2010, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “WEMS (Wildlife Enforcement and Monitoring System): UNU Global Office Perspective“, Presentation delivered at the Ministry of Environment and Forests/Government of India, February 18, 2010, New Delhi, India.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “UNU Global Office“, part of the UNU ICT strategy, August 2009
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Michihiro Yamamoto “Using many Wikis for Collaborative Writing”, ED-MEDIA 2006 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 26-30, 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Michihiro Yamamoto, and Teeratep Sosakul“Automating the collaborative and distributed production of electronic lectures”, SITE 2006 – Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, March 20-24, 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Michihiro Yamamoto “Collaborative Learning using Wiki and FlexNetDiscuss: A Pilot Study”, 5th IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education, January 2006, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • Michihiro Yamamoto and Ng S. T. Chong “Syndication of Discussion Metadata for Improved Access to Educational Content”,4th IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education, February 2005, Grindelwald, Switzerland.
  • Michihiro Yamamoto and Ng S. T. Chong “Bringing Discussion to Documents for the Creation of Richer Metadata”, 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, November 2004, Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “Annotation-based Web Communications Systems: A Review“, UNU Technical Report CS-3408-Oct-2003.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “FlexNetDiscuss – A Model and Architecture for Collaboration using Two-way Associative Hyperlinks”, 14th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, August 2003, Nottingham, UK.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “FlexNetDiscuss: a Generalized Contextual Group Communications System to Support Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, July 2003, Athens, Greece.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Teeratep Sosakul “A Framework for Video-centered Discussons on the Web”, ED-MEDIA 2003, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 2003, Hawaii, USA. Best Paper Award
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Panrit Tosukhowong, and Masao Sakauchi“WhiteboardVCR: a Web Lecture Production Tool for Combining Human Narration and Text-to-Speech Synthesis”, Vol.5 Issue 4 of Educational Technology & Society Journal, October 2002.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi “Discussing Web Pages with Chat-pointers in E-coBrowse”, Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, 17:1, May 2002.
  • Zhao Jianhua, Li Kedong, Ng S. T. Chong, and Kanji Akahori “Peer Modeling and its Application in Web-based Intelligent Collaborative Learning Systems” ICCE 2001, International Conference on Computers in Education, November 12-15, 2001, South Korea.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi “E-coBrowse: an Extensible Web (co)Navigation Framework” WebNet 2001, October 23-27, 2001, Orlando, Florida.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “Taking e-Learning Education into the Future – the Global Knowledge Hall” presented at the Workshop on Sharing Knowledge and Experience in Implementing ICTs in Universities, jointly organized by EUA / IAU / IAUP, Skagen, Denmark, May 4-6, 2001.
  • Ng S. T. Chong “Innovations in e-Learning Education” presented at the Workshop on Virtual University for Environmental Sustainability, Arendal, Norway, April 24-25, 2001.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Panrit Tosukhowong and Masao Sakauchi:WhiteboardVCR – a Presentation Tool using Text-to-Speech Agents,ICALT 2001 – IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, August 2001, Madison, USA.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Ney André de Mello Zunino: Net Knowledge Presenter and Content Reuse, ED-MEDIA 2001, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, June 2001, Tampere, Finland.
  • T. Tschang and T. Della Senta: Access to Knowledge – New Information Technologies and the Emergence of the Virtual University. More information from Elsevier Science here.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Creating and Sharing Web Notes via a Standard Browser, 16th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2001, Las Vegas, Nevada. Also published in OUTLOOK, the ACM SIGCUE Bulletin, September 2001.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: E-coBrowse: Co-navigating the Web with Chat-pointers and Add-ins: Problems and Promises, 12th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Collaborative Technologies Symposium, November 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp 803-808. PDF
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  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Chat-pointer and Awareness in Synchronized Web Browsing based on E-coBrowse, IASTED 4th International Conference on Internet, Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), November 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • Rodolfo Pinto Da Luz, Irla Bocianoski Rebelo, and Ng S. T. Chong:Institute of Advanced Studies Virtual Tour, 3rd Workshop on Virtual Reality, October 2000, Gramado, Brazil.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Classroom Anywhere: a New Software Foundation in Distance Learning, 1st International Conference on Distance Education and Open Learning, September 2000, Australia.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: GCC- IRC: a Multi-mode Chat for Coordinated Interaction, 5th ACM Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (poster session), July 2000, Finland.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Classroom Anywhere: an Initiative of the United Nations University, INET 2000, July 2000, Yohokama, Japan.
  • Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Back to the Basics: a First Class Chalkboard and More, 15th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2000, Como, Italy.
  • Ng S. T. Chong: Internet Technologies: Towards Advanced Infrastructure and Learning Applications, Access to Knowledge: New Information Technologies and the Emergence of the Virtual University, International Association of Universities Press, Paris and Pergamon, Oxford, 2000.
  • Shirabe Ogino, Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Infrastructure for the Virtual University, 7th International Conference on Computers in Education, November 1999, Chiba, Japan
  • Shirabe Ogino, Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: Application of sub-SmartSearch for Particular Search Requests, IASTED 3rd International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications, October 1999, Nassau, Bahamas.
  • Shirabe Ogino, Ng S. T. Chong and Masao Sakauchi: SmartSearch as Information Database for Virtual University, ED-MEDIA 99, June 1999, Seattle.
  • Ng S. T. Chong, Shirabe Ogino and Masao Sakauchi: Towards a Ubiquitous Virtual University, 10th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, April 1999, Florida.
  • Ng S. T. Chong: The Virtual University – Promises, Issues, Challenges, and Trends, 1998 Shanghai International Open and Distance Education Symposium, April 1998, Shanghai, China.
  • Ng S. T. Chong: Higher Education over the Internet: Dawn of the Virtual University, UNESCO Regional Conference on Higher Education – National Strategies for the 21st Century, July 1997, Tokyo, Japan.