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IoT (Internet of Things) systems are complex ones that may comprise large numbers of sensing and actuating devices; and servers that store data and further configure the operation of such devices. Usually, these systems involve real-time operation as they are closely bound to particular physical processes. This real-time operation is often threatened by the security solutions that are put in place to alleviate the ever growing attack surface in IoT. This paper focuses on critical IoT domains where less attention has been paid to the web security aspects. The main reason is that, up to quite recently, web technologies have been considered unreliable and had to be avoided by design in critical systems. In this work, we focus on the server side and on how attacks propagate from server to client as vulnerabilities and from client to unprotected servers; we describe the concerns and vulnerabilities introduced by the intensive usage of web interfaces in IoT from the server templating engines perspective. In this context, we propose an approach to perform self monitoring on the server side, propagating the self monitoring to the IoT system devices; the aim is to provide rapid detection of security vulnerabilities with a low overhead that is transparent to the server normal operation. This approach improves the control over the vulnerability detection. We show a set of experiments that validate the feasibility of our approach.
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AIMS: The aim of this research is to study the effects of traditional Chinese medicine on endotoxin and its receptors in rats with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). METHODS: Fifty-six SD rats were divided into seven groups. All the animals were fed high fatty diet for 12 weeks. Rats with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) were treated with traditional Chinese medicine according to low-dose, middle-dose, high-dose and Lipitor from fifth week. All rats were killed at the end of 12th week. The liver pathology changes were observed under light microscope. The levels of serum lipoid, alanine aminotransferase (ALT), endotoxin (ET), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukine-1beta (IL-1beta) were determined. The expressions of CD14 and nuclear transcriptional factor kappaB (NF-kappaB) were observed by immunohistochemistry. The expressions of lipopolysaccharide binding protein (LBP), toll-like receptor-4 (TLR-4), myeloid differentiation-2 (MD-2) and induced nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA were detected by the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). RESULTS: The levels of serum endotoxin in the middle dose group (0.0225 +/- 0.0112 EU/l) were lower than those in high fatty diet model group (0.2249 +/- 0.0982 EU/l) at 12th week, the difference was significant (P < 0.01). In the middle dose group, mean values of serum TNF-alpha and IL-1beta levels decreased dramatically (1.604 +/- 0.302 ng/ml and 0.052 +/- 0.024 ng/ml) compared with those in the high fatty diet model group (4.029 +/- 1.180 ng/ml and 14.944 +/- 0.491 ng/ml; P < 0.01 and P < 0.01). The expressions of CD14 and NF-kappaB in the middle dose group decreased compared with those in the high fatty diet model group. The expressions of LBP mRNA (0.284 +/- 0.105) and TLR-4 mRNA (0.290 +/- 0.123) in the middle dose group down regulated compared with those in the high fatty diet model group (1.060 +/- 0.158 and 1.261 +/- 0.368; P < 0.01 and P < 0.01). In the middle dose group MD-2 and iNOS gene expressions were 0.132 +/- 0.058 and 0.164 +/- 0.061, respectively, which were significantly lower compared with the high fatty diet model group (0.795 +/- 0.294 and 1.029 +/- 0.388; P < 0.01 and P < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The mechanism of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) maybe related to increasing the levels of serum endotoxin, upregulating endotoxin receptors of hepatic tissue and enhancing liver inflammatory injury. Traditional Chinese medicine is a good treatment for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). It can produce a marked effect via relieving LPS-induced liver injury.