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Recommender system has attracted much attention during the past decade. Many attack detection algorithms have been developed for better recommendations, mostly focusing on shilling attacks, where an attack organizer produces a large number…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Ming Pang , Wei Gao , Min Tao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Software bugs have caused enormous economic and human loss in recent years. Certified programming seeks to solve this problem by developing languages where we can make demonstrations that guarantee that our programs work properly. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Gustavo Arengas

The recent breakthroughs in deep learning methods have sparked a wave of interest in learning-based bug detectors. Compared to the traditional static analysis tools, these bug detectors are directly learned from data, thus, easier to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chi Zhang , Yu Wang , Linzhang Wang

Vulnerable software represents a tremendous threat to modern information systems. Vulnerabilities in widespread applications may be used to spread malware, steal money and conduct target attacks. To address this problem, developers and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Maksim Shudrak , Vyacheslav Zolotarev

This paper aims to provide an understanding of what a phishing attack is, the types of phishing attacks and methods employed by cyber criminals. This journal will also provide an understanding on where phishing attacks are carried via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Mario Ciprian Birlea

Static bug detection tools help developers detect problems in the code, including bad programming practices and potential defects. Recent efforts to integrate static bug detectors in modern software development workflows, such as in code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Junjie Li , Jinqiu Yang

Availability attacks, which poison the training data with imperceptible perturbations, can make the data \emph{not exploitable} by machine learning algorithms so as to prevent unauthorized use of data. In this work, we investigate why these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Da Yu , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Jian Yin , Tie-Yan Liu

Automated test generators, such as search based software testing (SBST) techniques, replace the tedious and expensive task of manually writing test cases. SBST techniques are effective at generating tests with high code coverage. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Anjana Perera

Security protocols are often found to be flawed after their deployment. We present an approach that aims at the neutralization or mitigation of the attacks to flawed protocols: it avoids the complete dismissal of the interested protocol and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-28 Michele Peroli , Luca Viganò , Matteo Zavatteri

To keep up with the growing number of cyber-attacks and associated threats, there is an ever-increasing demand for cybersecurity professionals and new methods and technologies. Training new cybersecurity professionals is a challenging task…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Kamil Malinka , Anton Firc , Pavel Loutocký , Jakub Vostoupal , Andrej Krištofík , František Kasl

Fuzzing continues to be the most effective method for identifying security vulnerabilities in software. In the context of fuzz testing, the fuzzer supplies varied inputs to fuzz targets, which are designed to comprehensively exercise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chi Thien Tran

This work presents CaFA, a system for Cost-aware Feasible Attacks for assessing the robustness of neural tabular classifiers against adversarial examples realizable in the problem space, while minimizing adversaries' effort. To this end,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Matan Ben-Tov , Daniel Deutch , Nave Frost , Mahmood Sharif

Hardware caches are essential performance optimization features in modern processors to reduce the effective memory access time. Unfortunately, they are also the prime targets for attacks on computer processors because they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangyuan Hu , Ruby B. Lee

This article provides a tool for analyzing mechanisms that aim to achieve resilience against stealthy, or undetectable, attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We consider attackers who are able to corrupt all of the inputs and outputs of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Paul Griffioen , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

We present an alternative approach to creating static bug finders. Instead of relying on human expertise, we utilize deep neural networks to train static analyzers directly from data. In particular, we frame the problem of bug finding as a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Yu Wang , Fengjuan Gao , Linzhang Wang , Ke Wang

Rust is a promising programming language that focuses on concurrency, usability, and security. It is used in production code by major industry players and got recommended by government bodies. Rust provides strong security guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 David Paaßen , Jens-Rene Giesen , Lucas Davi

High-quality and large-scale repositories of real bugs and their concise patches collected from real-world applications are critical for research in software engineering community. In such a repository, each real bug is explicitly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yanjie Jiang , Hui Liu , Nan Niu , Lu Zhang , Yamin Hu

Preventing data exfiltration from computer systems typically depends on perimeter defences, but these are becoming increasingly fragile. Instead we suggest an approach in which each at-risk document is supplemented by many fake versions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-14 David Skillicorn , Xiao Li , Karen Chen

Vulnerability Discovery with attack Injection security threats are increasing for the server software, when software is developed, the software tested for the functionality. Due to unawareness of software vulnerabilities most of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-12 G. Vijay Kumar , Ravikumar S. Raykundaliya , Dr. P. Naga Prasad

As researchers, we already understand how to make testing more effective and efficient at finding bugs. However, as fuzzing (i.e., automated testing) becomes more widely adopted in practice, practitioners are asking: Which assurances does a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Marcel Böhme