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The explosive growth in fake news and its erosion to democracy, justice, and public trust has increased the demand for fake news detection and intervention. This survey reviews and evaluates methods that can detect fake news from four…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Xinyi Zhou , Reza Zafarani

Deception is a pervasive feature of human communication and an emerging concern in large language models (LLMs). While recent studies document instances of LLM deception, most evaluations remain confined to single-turn prompts and fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yang Xu , Xuanming Zhang , Samuel Yeh , Jwala Dhamala , Ousmane Dia , Rahul Gupta , Sharon Li

Cyber deception aims to distract, delay, and detect network attackers with fake assets such as honeypots, decoy credentials, or decoy files. However, today, it is difficult for operators to experiment, explore, and evaluate deception…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Brian Singer , Yusuf Saquib , Lujo Bauer , Vyas Sekar

An abundance of literature has shown that the injection of noise into complex socio-economic systems can improve their resilience. This study aims to understand whether the same applies in the context of information diffusion in social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-21 Diana Riazi , Giacomo Livan

Detecting deception in an increasingly digital world is both a critical and challenging task. In this study, we present a comprehensive evaluation of the automated deception detection capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Md Messal Monem Miah , Adrita Anika , Xi Shi , Ruihong Huang

The application of machine learning to support the processing of large datasets holds promise in many industries, including financial services. However, practical issues for the full adoption of machine learning remain with the focus being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Ismini Psychoula , Andreas Gutmann , Pradip Mainali , S. H. Lee , Paul Dunphy , Fabien A. P. Petitcolas

The well-established deceptive design literature has focused on conventional user interfaces. With the rise of extended reality (XR), understanding deceptive design's unique manifestations in this immersive domain is crucial. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hilda Hadan , Lydia Choong , Leah Zhang-Kennedy , Lennart E. Nacke

New model of software safety is offered. Distribution of mistakes in program on stages of life cycle is researched. Study of ways of increase of reliability of software at help simulation program is leaded.

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-07-02 Arkadiy Khandjian

Deceiving an attacker in the network security domain is a well established approach, mainly achieved through deployment of honeypots consisting of open network ports with the sole purpose of raising an alert on a connection. With attackers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Daniel Reti , David Klaaßen , Simon Duque Anton , Hans Dieter Schotten

Threat actors continue to exploit geopolitical and global public events launch aggressive campaigns propagating disinformation over the Internet. In this paper we extend our prior research in detecting disinformation using psycholinguistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Alex V Mbaziira , Maha F Sabir

Deception is a crucial tool in the cyberdefence repertoire, enabling defenders to leverage their informational advantage to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. One way deception can be employed is through obscuring, or masking,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junlin Wu , Charles Kamhoua , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Deepfakes are synthetic media generated by artificial intelligence, with positive applications in education and creativity, but also serious negative impacts such as fraud, misinformation, and privacy violations. Although detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Lucas Lopes , Rayson Laroca , André Grégio

Privacy technologies have become extremely prevalent in recent years from secure communication channels to the Tor network. These technologies were designed to provide privacy and security for users, but these ideals have also led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Craig Ellis

This systematic literature review surveys technical defenses against software-based cheating in online multiplayer games. Categorizing existing approach-es into server-side detection, client-side anti-tamper, kernel-level anti-cheat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Adwa Alangari , Ohoud Alharbi

Systems operating in adversarial environments may inadvertently leak sensitive information to adversaries. To address this challenge, we revisit the linear-quadratic control framework and introduce deception to actively mislead adversaries.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Yerin Kim , Haosheng Zhou , Alexander Benvenuti , Ruimeng Hu , Matthew Hale

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano

In recent years, there have emerged many new hardware mechanisms for improving the security of our computer systems. Hardware offers many advantages over pure software approaches: immutability of mechanisms to software attacks, better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Lianying Zhao , He Shuang , Shengjie Xu , Wei Huang , Rongzhen Cui , Pushkar Bettadpur , David Lie

Opacity is a confidentiality property that holds when certain secret strings of a given system cannot be revealed to an outside observer under any system activity. Opacity violations stimulate the study of opacity enforcement strategies.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Xiaoyan Li , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis , Zhiwu Li

Lies and deception are common phenomena in society, both in our private and professional lives. However, humans are notoriously bad at accurate deception detection. Based on the literature, human accuracy of distinguishing between lies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Minh Ngô , Burak Mandira , Selim Fırat Yılmaz , Ward Heij , Sezer Karaoglu , Henri Bouma , Hamdi Dibeklioglu , Theo Gevers

Today, cloud computing is an emerging way of computing in computer science. Cloud computing is a set of resources and services that are offered by the network or internet. Cloud computing extends various computing techniques like grid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Shubhanjali Sharma , Garima Gupta , P. R. Laxmi