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With the popularity of mobile devices, mobile applications have become an essential part of people's lives. To provide secure mobile application download channels for users, various modern app markets are maintained by different companies.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fuqi Lin

Mobile devices often distribute measurements from physical sensors to multiple applications using software multiplexing. On Android devices, the highest requested sampling frequency is returned to all applications, even if others request…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Carlton Shepherd , Jan Kalbantner , Benjamin Semal , Konstantinos Markantonakis

Split Learning (SL) offers a framework for collaborative model training that respects data privacy by allowing participants to share the same dataset while maintaining distinct feature sets. However, SL is susceptible to backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhihao Dou , Dongfei Cui , Weida Wang , Anjun Gao , Yueyang Quan , Mengyao Ma , Viet Vo , Guangdong Bai , Zhuqing Liu , Minghong Fang

The systematic assessment of AI systems is increasingly vital as these technologies enter high-stakes domains. To address this, the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act introduces AI Regulatory Sandboxes (AIRS): supervised environments where AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Alessio Buscemi , Thibault Simonetto , Daniele Pagani , German Castignani , Maxime Cordy , Jordi Cabot

Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pulido-Cortázar , Daniel Gibert , Felip Manyà

The Android mining sandbox approach consists in running dynamic analysis tools on a benign version of an Android app and recording every call to sensitive APIs. Later, one can use this information to (a) prevent calls to other sensitive…

We introduce MPLSandbox, an out-of-the-box multi-programming language sandbox designed to provide unified and comprehensive feedback from compiler and analysis tools for Large Language Models (LLMs). It can automatically identify the…

With almost daily improvements in capabilities of artificial intelligence it is more important than ever to develop safety software for use by the AI research community. Building on our previous work on AI Containment Problem we propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-27 James Babcock , Janos Kramar , Roman V. Yampolskiy

Smartphones, the devices we carry everywhere with us, are being heavily tracked and have undoubtedly become a major threat to our privacy. As "tracking the trackers" has become a necessity, various static and dynamic analysis tools have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Jagdish Prasad Achara , Vincent Roca , Claude Castelluccia , Aurelien Francillon

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, smartphones have become essential components of IoT systems. However, with the increasing amount of personal information stored on smartphones, user privacy is at risk of being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Quancheng Wang , Ming Tang , Jianming Fu

Over the past decade, side-channels have proven to be significant and practical threats to modern computing systems. Recent attacks have all exploited the underlying shared hardware. While practical, mounting such a complicated attack is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Mehmet Sinan Inci , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

The misuse of Large Language Models (LLMs) to infer emotions from text for malicious purposes, known as emotion inference attacks, poses a significant threat to user privacy. In this paper, we investigate the potential of Apple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Mohd. Farhan Israk Soumik , Syed Mhamudul Hasan , Abdur R. Shahid

Replay and rollback attacks threaten cloud application integrity by reintroducing authentic yet stale data through an untrusted storage interface to compromise application decision-making. Prior security frameworks mitigate these attacks by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Quinn Burke , Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner , Michael Swift , Patrick McDaniel

The Privacy Sandbox, launched in 2019, is a series of proposals from Google to reduce ``cross-site and cross-app tracking while helping to keep online content and services free for all''. Over the years, Google implemented, experimented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yohan Beugin , Patrick McDaniel

When adversaries are powerful enough to coerce users to reveal encryption keys, encryption alone becomes insufficient for data protection. Plausible deniability (PD) mechanisms resolve this by enabling users to hide the mere existence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Chen Chen , Anrin Chakraborti , Radu Sion

AI agents increasingly run untrusted code on developer machines: shell commands generated by language models, third-party scripts retrieved at runtime, and tool plugins of unknown provenance. Existing isolation mechanisms impose tradeoffs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Cong Wang , Yusheng Zheng

Machine-learning techniques are widely used in security-related applications, like spam and malware detection. However, in such settings, they have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including the deliberate manipulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Ambra Demontis , Paolo Russu , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

Privacy policies are long, complex documents that end-users seldom read. Privacy labels aim to ameliorate these issues by providing succinct summaries of salient data practices. In December 2020, Apple began requiring that app developers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Akshath Jain , David Rodriguez , Jose M. del Alamo , Norman Sadeh

Clustering algorithms have been increasingly adopted in security applications to spot dangerous or illicit activities. However, they have not been originally devised to deal with deliberate attack attempts that may aim to subvert the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Battista Biggio , Ignazio Pillai , Samuel Rota Bulò , Davide Ariu , Marcello Pelillo , Fabio Roli

What is your messaging data used for? While many users do not often think about the information companies can gather based off of their messaging platform of choice, it is nonetheless important to consider as society increasingly relies on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Alan Gerber , Sam Cooperman