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This paper studies physical consequences of unobservable false data injection (FDI) attacks designed only with information inside a sub-network of the power system. The goal of this attack is to overload a chosen target line without being…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Jiazi Zhang , Zhigang Chu , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

Recommender systems play a crucial role in helping users to find their interested information in various web services such as Amazon, YouTube, and Google News. Various recommender systems, ranging from neighborhood-based,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hai Huang , Jiaming Mu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Qi Li , Bin Liu , Mingwei Xu

False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. Characterizing how false information proliferates on social platforms and why it succeeds in deceiving…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Srijan Kumar , Neil Shah

ISPs are increasingly selling "tiered" contracts, which offer Internet connectivity to wholesale customers in bundles, at rates based on the cost of the links that the traffic in the bundle is traversing. Although providers have already…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-12-19 Vytautas Valancius , Cristian Lumezanu , Nick Feamster , Ramesh Johari , Vijay V. Vazirani

In this paper a new class of cyber attacks against state estimation in the electric power grid is considered. This class of attacks is named false data injection attacks. We show that with the knowledge of the system configuration an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Muneer Mohammad

Thanks to the wide range of features offered by web browsers, modern websites include various types of content such as JavaScript and CSS in order to create interactive user interfaces. Browser vendors also provided extensions to enhance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Sajjad Arshad

Web spam refers to some techniques, which try to manipulate search engine ranking algorithms in order to raise web page position in search engine results. In the best case, spammers encourage viewers to visit their sites, and provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Shekoofeh Ghiam , Alireza Nemaney Pour

Autonomous web navigation agents, which translate natural language instructions into sequences of browser actions, are increasingly deployed for complex tasks across e-commerce, information retrieval, and content discovery. Due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Atharv Singh Patlan , Ashwin Hebbar , Pramod Viswanath , Prateek Mittal

Nowadays, artificial intelligence algorithms are used for targeted and personalized content distribution in the large scale as part of the intense competition for attention in the digital media environment. Unfortunately, targeted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sina Mohseni , Eric Ragan

Adversarial attacks on stochastic bandits have traditionally relied on some unrealistic assumptions, such as per-round reward manipulation and unbounded perturbations, limiting their relevance to real-world systems. We propose a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Qirun Zeng , Eric He , Richard Hoffmann , Xuchuang Wang , Jinhang Zuo

Effective applications of vehicular ad hoc networks in traffic signal control require new methods for detection of malicious data. Injection of malicious data can result in significantly decreased performance of such applications, increased…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Bartlomiej Placzek , Marcin Bernas

In a spoofing attack, an attacker impersonates a legitimate user to access or tamper with data intended for or produced by the legitimate user. In wireless communication systems, these attacks may be detected by relying on features of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Daniel Romero , Peter Gerstoft , Hadi Givehchian , Dinesh Bharadia

A common form of phishing training in organizations is the use of simulated phishing emails to test employees' susceptibility to phishing attacks, and the immediate delivery of training material to those who fail the test. This widespread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Daniele Lain , Tarek Jost , Sinisa Matetic , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun

Passive measurement has traditionally focused on inbound traffic to detect malicious activity, based on the assumption that threats originate externally. In this paper, we offer a complementary perspective by examining outbound traffic, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Andrea Sordello , Zhihao Wang , Kai Huang , Alessandro Cornacchia , Marco Mellia

In this paper we present three attacks on private internal networks behind a NAT and a corresponding new protection mechanism, Internal Network Policy, to mitigate a wide range of attacks that penetrate internal networks behind a NAT. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Yehuda Afek , Anat Bremler-Barr , Alon Noy

Internet of Things (IoT) is now omnipresent in all aspects of life and provides a large number of potentially critical services. For this, Internet of Things relies on the data collected by objects. Data integrity is therefore essential.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Mathieu Briland , Fabrice Bouquet

Consider a stochastic process being controlled across a communication channel. The control signal that is transmitted across the control channel can be replaced by a malicious attacker. The controller is allowed to implement any arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Cheng-Zong Bai , Fabio Pasqualetti , Vijay Gupta

Third party tracking is the practice by which third parties recognize users accross different websites as they browse the web. Recent studies show that 90% of websites contain third party content that is tracking its users across the web.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Dolière Francis Somé , Nataliia Bielova , Tamara Rezk

Prompt injection attacks manipulate webpage content to cause web agents to execute attacker-specified tasks instead of the user's intended ones. Existing methods for detecting and localizing such attacks achieve limited effectiveness, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xilong Wang , Yinuo Liu , Zhun Wang , Dawn Song , Neil Gong

In the network security domain, due to practical issues -- including imbalanced data and heterogeneous legitimate network traffic -- adversarial attacks in machine learning-based NIDSs have been viewed as attack packets misclassified as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Mohammad Shamim Ahsan , Peng Liu