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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to assist developers with code, yet their implementations of cryptographic functionality often contain exploitable flaws. Minor design choices (e.g., static initialization vectors or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Max Manolov , Tony Gao , Siddharth Shukla , Cheng-Ting Chou , Ryan Lagasse

We describe a new class of packet injection attacks called Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS), previously only seen where state actors have "compromised" a number of telecommunication companies. MotS injection attacks have not been widely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Peter Maynard , Kieran McLaughlin

Botnet is one of the numerous attacks ravaging the networking environment. Its approach is said to be brutal and dangerous to network infrastructures as well as client systems. Since the introduction of botnet, different design methods have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Maxwell Scale Uwadia Osagie , Amenze Joy Osagie

Online voting enables individuals to participate in elections remotely, offering greater efficiency and accessibility in both governmental and organizational settings. As this method gains popularity, ensuring the security of online voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Anastasiia Belousova , Francesco Marchiori , Mauro Conti

Understanding and predicting real-time vehicle mobility patterns on highways are essential to address traffic congestion and respond to the emergency. However, almost all existing works (e.g., based on cellphones, onboard devices, or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yu Yang , Xiaoyang Xie , Zhihan Fang , Fan Zhang , Yang Wang , Desheng Zhang

Analog meters equipped with one or multiple pointers are wildly utilized to monitor vital devices' status in industrial sites for safety concerns. Reading these legacy meters {\bi autonomously} remains an open problem since estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Zhipeng Dong , Yi Gao , Yunhui Yan , Fei Chen

In today's world, computer networks have become vulnerable to numerous attacks. In both wireless and wired networks, one of the most common attacks is man-in-the-middle attacks, within which session hijacking, context confusion attacks have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Kailash Gogineni , Yongsheng Mei , Guru Venkataramani , Tian Lan

Machine learning (ML) based malicious traffic detection is an emerging security paradigm, particularly for zero-day attack detection, which is complementary to existing rule based detection. However, the existing ML based detection has low…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Chuanpu Fu , Qi Li , Meng Shen , Ke Xu

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

In advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart meters (SMs), which are installed at the consumer side, send fine-grained power consumption readings periodically to the electricity utility for load monitoring and energy management. Change…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Mohamed I. Ibrahem , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mostafa M. Fouda , Fawaz Alsolami , Waleed Alasmary , Xuemin , Shen

Phishing is an online identity theft technique where attackers steal users personal information, leading to financial losses for individuals and organizations. With the increasing adoption of smartphones, which provide functionalities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Diksha Goel

In this paper, we study the problem of physical layer security in large-scale multiple input multiple output (LS-MIMO) systems. The large number of antenna elements in LS-MIMO system is exploited to enhance transmission security and improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Xiaoming Chen , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Johannes Kortz , Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Christian Zenger

The impact of voice disorders is becoming more widely acknowledged as a public health issue. Several machine learning-based classifiers with the potential to identify disorders have been used in recent studies to differentiate between…

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Visual Reasoning CAPTCHAs (VRCs) combine visual scenes with natural-language queries that demand compositional inference over objects, attributes, and spatial relations. They are increasingly deployed as a primary defense against automated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Minfeng Qi , Dongyang He , Qin Wang , Lefeng Zhang

The Internet has become a prime subject to security attacks and intrusions by attackers. These attacks can lead to system malfunction, network breakdown, data corruption or theft. A network intrusion detection system (IDS) is a tool used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Tanwir Ahmad , Dragos Truscan , Juri Vain , Ivan Porres

Internet memes have emerged as an increasingly popular means of communication on the Web. Although typically intended to elicit humour, they have been increasingly used to spread hatred, trolling, and cyberbullying, as well as to target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shivam Sharma , Md. Shad Akhtar , Preslav Nakov , Tanmoy Chakraborty

We assume that a buffer-aided transmitter communicates with a receiving node in the presence of an attacker. We investigate the impact of a radio-frequency energy-harvesting attacker that probabilistically operates as a jammer or an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ahmed El Shafie , Kamel Tourki , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper considers a sensor attack and fault detection problem for linear cyber-physical systems, which are subject to system noise that can obey an unknown light-tailed distribution. We propose a new threshold-based detection mechanism…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Dan Li , Sonia Martínez

Voice-Controllable Devices (VCDs) have seen an increasing trend towards their adoption due to the small form factor of the MEMS microphones and their easy integration into modern gadgets. Recent studies have revealed that MEMS microphones…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Hashim Ali , Dhimant Khuttan , Rafi Ud Daula Refat , Hafiz Malik