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Thousands of vulnerabilities are reported on a monthly basis to security repositories, such as the National Vulnerability Database. Among these vulnerabilities, software misconfiguration is one of the top 10 security risks for web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno , Daniel Strüber

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are likely to affect social engineering and change cyber defense operations. The broad and sweeping nature of AI impact means that many aspects of social engineering could be automated,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Krystal A. Jackson

In the faceless world of the Internet,online fraud is one of the greatest reasons of loss for web merchants.Advanced solutions are needed to protect e businesses from the constant problems of fraud.Many popular fraud detection algorithms…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-15 P. Srinivasulu , J. Ranga Rao , I. Ramesh Babu

Keyloggers remain a serious threat in modern cybersecurity, silently capturing user keystrokes to steal credentials and sensitive information. Traditional defenses focus mainly on detection and removal, which can halt malicious activity but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Md Sajidul Islam Sajid , Shihab Ahmed , Ryan Sosnoski

Secure aggregation is a critical component in federated learning (FL), which enables the server to learn the aggregate model of the users without observing their local models. Conventionally, secure aggregation algorithms focus only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jinhyun So , Ramy E. Ali , Basak Guler , Jiantao Jiao , Salman Avestimehr

As today's organizational computer networks are ever evolving and becoming more and more complex, finding potential vulnerabilities and conducting security audits has become a crucial element in securing these networks. The first step in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Stefan Marksteiner , Harald Lernbeiß , Bernhard Jandl-Scherf

Censorship of the Internet is widespread around the world. As access to the web becomes increasingly ubiquitous, filtering of this resource becomes more pervasive. Transparency about specific content that citizens are denied access to is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Alexander Darer , Oliver Farnan , Joss Wright

Sparse events, such as malign attacks in real-time network traffic, have caused big organisations an immense hike in revenue loss. This is due to the excessive growth of the network and its exposure to a plethora of people. The standard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Nasreen Fathima , Akshara Pramod , Yash Srivastava , Anusha Maria Thomas , Syed Ibrahim S P , Chandran K R

Signed social networks are widely used to model the trust relationships among online users in security-sensitive systems such as cryptocurrency trading platforms, where trust prediction plays a critical role. In this paper, we investigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yulin Zhu , Tomasz Michalak , Xiapu Luo , Xiaoge Zhang , Kai Zhou

Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks aim to infer which websites a user is visiting by analyzing traffic patterns, thereby compromising user anonymity. Although this technique has been demonstrated to be effective in controlled experimental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yali Yuan , Weiyi Zou , Guang Cheng

Software testing plays a critical role in ensuring that systems behave as intended. However, existing automated testing approaches struggle to match the capabilities of human engineers due to key limitations such as test locality, lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kangping Xu , Yifan Luo , Yang Yuan , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Modern web test suites rot. A UI refactor breaks locators, a timing change causes race conditions, and within weeks developers abandon the suite entirely. This paper presents an AI-driven autonomous testing framework that addresses these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Vinil Pasupuleti , Siva Rama Krishna Varma Bayyavarapu , Shrey Tyagi

The growth of digitalization services via web browsers has simplified our daily routine of doing business. But at the same time, it has made the web browser very attractive for several cyber-attacks. Web phishing is a well-known cyberattack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Leand Thaqi , Arbnor Halili , Kamer Vishi , Blerim Rexha

Malware scanners try to protect users from opening malicious documents by statically or dynamically analyzing documents. However, malware developers may apply evasions that conceal the maliciousness of a document. Given the variety of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Saeed Ehteshamifar , Antonio Barresi , Thomas R. Gross , Michael Pradel

In today's digital landscape, the importance of timely and accurate vulnerability detection has significantly increased. This paper presents a novel approach that leverages transformer-based models and machine learning techniques to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Daniele Cipollone , Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Simone Ferlin , Maliheh Izadi , Dejan Kostic , Marco Chiesa

Risk-based authentication (RBA) aims to protect users against attacks involving stolen passwords. RBA monitors features during login, and requests re-authentication when feature values widely differ from previously observed ones. It is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Stephan Wiefling , Paul René Jørgensen , Sigurd Thunem , Luigi Lo Iacono

Unrestricted file upload (UFU) is a class of web security vulnerabilities that can have a severe impact on web applications if uploaded files are not sufficiently validated or securely handled. A review of related work shows an increased…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Sebastian Neef , Maath Oudeh

In successful enterprise attacks, adversaries often need to gain access to additional machines beyond their initial point of compromise, a set of internal movements known as lateral movement. We present Hopper, a system for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Grant Ho , Mayank Dhiman , Devdatta Akhawe , Vern Paxson , Stefan Savage , Geoffrey M. Voelker , David Wagner

Since autonomous coding agents generate complex behaviors at high-volume, we may want to use other LLMs to monitor actions to reduce the risk from dangerous misaligned behavior. To better understand the limitations of such monitors against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Elle Najt , Colin Toft , Tyler Tracy , Fabien Roger , Joe Benton

Penetration testing refers to the process of simulating hacker attacks to evaluate the security of information systems . This study aims not only to clarify the theoretical foundations of penetration testing but also to explain and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wei Zhang , Ju Xing , Xiaoqi Li