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A few years ago, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) used by only military. Now, we have seen many of organizations use WSNs for some purposes such as weather, pollution, traffic control, and healthcare. Security is becoming on these days a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Naser Alajmi

Logging code plays an important role in software systems by recording key events and behaviors, which are essential for debugging and monitoring. However, insecure logging practices can inadvertently expose sensitive information or enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 He Yang Yuan , Xin Wang , Kundi Yao , An Ran Chen , Zishuo Ding , Zhenhao Li

Deep learning has gained tremendous success and great popularity in the past few years. However, deep learning systems are suffering several inherent weaknesses, which can threaten the security of learning models. Deep learning's wide use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Yingzhe He , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Xingbo Hu , Jinwen He

Malware presents a persistent threat to user privacy and data integrity. To combat this, machine learning-based (ML-based) malware detection (MD) systems have been developed. However, these systems have increasingly been attacked in recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ping He , Yuhao Mao , Changjiang Li , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Ting Wang , Shouling Ji

We are not very good at measuring -- rigorously and quantitatively -- the cyber security of systems. Our ability to measure cyber resilience is even worse. And without measuring cyber resilience, we can neither improve it nor trust its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Alexander Kott , Igor Linkov

The lack of security in information systems has caused numerous financial and moral losses to several organizations. The organizations have a series of information security measures recommended by literature and international standards.…

Despite the large body of academic work on machine learning security, little is known about the occurrence of attacks on machine learning systems in the wild. In this paper, we report on a quantitative study with 139 industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kathrin Grosse , Lukas Bieringer , Tarek Richard Besold , Battista Biggio , Katharina Krombholz

This paper presents a comparative survey of cyberthreat and attack trends starting from 2010 till date Cyber security breaches are constantly on the rise with huge uncertainty and risks The trend is causing rife globally because of its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Uwazie Emmanuel Chinanu , Oluyemi Amujo

Modeling and analyzing security of networked systems is an important problem in the emerging Science of Security and has been under active investigation. In this paper, we propose a new approach towards tackling the problem. Our approach is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Gaofeng Da , Maochao Xu , Shouhuai Xu

Sensors are embedded in security-critical applications from medical devices to nuclear power plants, but their outputs can be spoofed through electromagnetic and other types of signals transmitted by attackers at a distance. To address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ilias Giechaskiel , Youqian Zhang , Kasper B. Rasmussen

Properly benchmarking a system is a difficult and intricate task. Unfortunately, even a seemingly innocuous benchmarking mistake can compromise the guarantees provided by a given systems security defense and also put its reproducibility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Erik van der Kouwe , Dennis Andriesse , Herbert Bos , Cristiano Giuffrida , Gernot Heiser

Security system designers favor worst-case security metrics, such as those derived from differential privacy (DP), due to the strong guarantees they provide. On the downside, these guarantees result in a high penalty on the system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Giovanni Cherubin , Catuscia Palamidessi , Carmela Troncoso

Technical security metrics provide measurements in ensuring the effectiveness of technical security controls or technology devices/objects that are used in protecting the information systems. However, lack of understanding and method to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Rabiah Ahmad , Shahrin Sahib , Muhamad Pahri Nor'Azuwa

Solving cybersecurity issues requires a holistic understanding of components, factors, structures and their interactions in cyberspace, but conventional modeling approaches view the field of cybersecurity by their boundaries so that we are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Dingyu Yan

Stealing attack against controlled information, along with the increasing number of information leakage incidents, has become an emerging cyber security threat in recent years. Due to the booming development and deployment of advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuantian Miao , Chao Chen , Lei Pan , Qing-Long Han , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

With our growing reliability on distributed networks, the security aspect of such networks becomes of prime importance. In large scale distributed networks it becomes cardinal to have an efficient and effective monitoring scheme. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-20 Atul Vaibhav

Side-channel attacks extracting sensitive data from implementations have been considered a major threat to the security of cryptographic schemes. This has elevated the need for improved designs by embodying countermeasures, with masking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ana Covic , Fatemeh Ganji , Domenic Forte

In today's world, critical infrastructure is often controlled by computing systems. This introduces new risks for cyber attacks, which can compromise the security and disrupt the functionality of these systems. It is therefore necessary to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Tomas Kulik , Brijesh Dongol , Peter Gorm Larsen , Hugo Daniel Macedo , Steve Schneider , Peter Würtz Vinther Tran-Jørgensen , Jim Woodcock

In today's increasingly interconnected and fast-paced digital ecosystem, mobile networks, such as 5G and future generations such as 6G, play a pivotal role and must be considered as critical infrastructures. Ensuring their security is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Loay Abdelrazek , Rim ElMalki , Filippo Rebecchi , Daniel Cho

The increasing cybersecurity threats to critical manufacturing infrastructure necessitate proactive strategies for vulnerability identification, classification, and assessment. Traditional approaches, which define vulnerabilities as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Md Habibor Rahman , Mohammed Shafae