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Recent advances in natural language processing and the increased use of large language models have exposed new security vulnerabilities, such as backdoor attacks. Previous backdoor attacks require input manipulation after model distribution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Minkyoo Song , Hanna Kim , Jaehan Kim , Youngjin Jin , Seungwon Shin

Pushback is a mechanism for defending against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks are treated as a congestion-control problem, but because most such congestion is caused by malicious hosts not obeying traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Saravanan Kumarasamy , R. Asokan

The recent breakthrough in large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has revolutionized production processes at an unprecedented pace. Alongside this progress also comes mounting concerns about LLMs' susceptibility to jailbreaking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Tianrong Zhang , Bochuan Cao , Yuanpu Cao , Lu Lin , Prasenjit Mitra , Jinghui Chen

Since the introduction of bcrypt in 1999, adaptive password hashing functions, whereby brute-force resistance increases symmetrically with computational difficulty for legitimate users, have been our most powerful post-breach countermeasure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Vivek Nair , Dawn Song

Many distributed systems are subject to the Sybil attack, where an adversary subverts system operation by emulating behavior of multiple distinct nodes. Most recent work to address this problem leverages social networks to establish trust…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Frank Li , Prateek Mittal , Matthew Caesar , Nikita Borisov

A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an automatic security mechanism used to determine whether the user is a human or a malicious computer program. It is a program that generates and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury , Narayan Ranjan Chakraborty

Security is unarguably the most serious concern for Web applications, to which SQL injection (SQLi) attack is one of the most devastating attacks. Automatically testing SQLi vulnerabilities is of ultimate importance, yet is unfortunately…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Muyang Liu , Ke Li , Tao Chen

Recently efficient model-checking tools have been developed to find flaws in security protocols specifications. These flaws can be interpreted as potential attacks scenarios but the feasability of these scenarios need to be confirmed at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Hatem Ghabri , Ghazi Maatoug , Michael Rusinowitch

Every day, internet thieves employ new ways to obtain personal identity people and get access to their personal information. Phishing is a somehow complex method that has recently been considered by internet thieves.The present study aims…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Shahrzad Sedaghat

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks constitute a major security threat to today's Internet. This challenge is especially pertinent to the Internet of Things (IoT) as devices have less computing power, memory and security mechanisms to mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Luca Arnaboldi , Charles Morrisset

Text-based password schemes have inherent security and usability problems, leading to the development of graphical password schemes. However, most of these alternate schemes are vulnerable to spyware attacks. We propose a new scheme, using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Liming Wang , Xiuling Chang , Zhongjie Ren , Haichang Gao , Xiyang Liu , Uwe Aickelin

Diffusion models exhibit notable fragility when faced with adversarial prompts, and strengthening attack capabilities is crucial for uncovering such vulnerabilities and building more robust generative systems. Existing works often rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Shuhan Xia , Jing Dai , Hui Ouyang , Yadong Shang , Dongxiao Zhao , Peipei Li

Consider the situation where a word is chosen probabilistically from a finite list. If an attacker knows the list and can inquire about each word in turn, then selecting the word via the uniform distribution maximizes the attacker's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Mark M. Christiansen , Ken R. Duffy , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Muriel Medard

With the goal of improving the security of Internet protocols, we seek faster, semi-automatic methods to discover new vulnerabilities in protocols such as DNS, BGP, and others. To this end, we introduce the LLM-Assisted Protocol Attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 R. Can Aygun , Yehuda Afek , Anat Bremler-Barr , Leonard Kleinrock

As a widely deployed security scheme, text-based CAPTCHAs have become more and more difficult to resist machine learning-based attacks. So far, many researchers have conducted attacking research on text-based CAPTCHAs deployed by different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Chunhui Li , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Yu Zhang , Peiming Wang

Recent work in open-domain question answering (ODQA) has shown that adversarial poisoning of the search collection can cause large drops in accuracy for production systems. However, little to no work has proposed methods to defend against…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Orion Weller , Aleem Khan , Nathaniel Weir , Dawn Lawrie , Benjamin Van Durme

Natural language processing models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Previous textual adversarial attacks adopt gradients or confidence scores to calculate word importance ranking and generate adversarial examples. However, this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Hai Zhu , Zhaoqing Yang , Weiwei Shang , Yuren Wu

Information sharing is vital in resisting cyberattacks, and the volume and severity of these attacks is increasing very rapidly. Therefore responders must triage incoming warnings in deciding how to act. This study asked a very specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Paul B. Kantor , Dennis E. Egan , Jonathan Bullinger , Katie McKeon , James Wojtowicz

In recent times deep learning has been widely used for automating various security tasks in Cyber Domains. However, adversaries manipulate data in many situations and diminish the deployed deep learning model's accuracy. One notable example…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , Shamik Sengupta

Dictionary learning is a widely used unsupervised learning method in signal processing and machine learning. Most existing works of dictionary learning are in an offline manner. There are mainly two offline ways for dictionary learning. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ye Xue , Vincent Lau