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Despite significant advances in the area, adversarial robustness remains a critical challenge in systems employing machine learning models. The removal of adversarial perturbations at inference time, known as adversarial purification, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Elias Collaert , Abel Rodríguez , Sander Joos , Lieven Desmet , Vera Rimmer

Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

Information Flow Control (IFC) is a collection of techniques for ensuring a no-write-down no-read-up style security policy known as noninterference. Traditional methods for both static and dynamic IFC suffer from untenable numbers of false…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Maximilian Algehed , Cormac Flanagan

Because of the open nature of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), the Denial of the Service (DoS) becomes one of the most serious threats to the stability of the resourceconstrained sensor nodes. In this paper, we develop AccFlow which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Yuan Cao , Lijuan Han , Xiaojin Zhao , Xiaofang Pan

Remote run-time attestation methods, including Control Flow Attestation (CFA) and Data Flow Attestation (DFA), have been proposed to generate precise evidence of execution's control flow path (in CFA) and optionally execution data inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Adam Caulfield , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

Modern society is getting accustomed to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) for a variety of applications that involves security-critical user data and information transfers. In the lower end of the spectrum, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Avani Dave Nilanjan Banerjee Chintan Patel

Signature-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) detect malicious activities by matching network or host activity against predefined rules. These rules are derived from extensive Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI), which includes attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Shaswata Mitra , Azim Bazarov , Martin Duclos , Sudip Mittal , Aritran Piplai , Md Rayhanur Rahman , Edward Zieglar , Shahram Rahimi

Deploying new supercomputers requires testing and evaluation via application codes. Portable, user-friendly tools enable evaluation, and the Multicomponent Flow Code (MFC), a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, addresses this need. MFC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Benjamin Wilfong , Anand Radhakrishnan , Henry A. Le Berre , Tanush Prathi , Stephen Abbott , Spencer H. Bryngelson

The rise of serverless computing provides an opportunity to rethink cloud security. We present an approach for securing serverless systems using a novel form of dynamic information flow control (IFC). We show that in serverless…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kalev Alpernas , Cormac Flanagan , Sadjad Fouladi , Leonid Ryzhyk , Mooly Sagiv , Thomas Schmitz , Keith Winstein

In the standard web browser programming model, third-party scripts included in an application execute with the same privilege as the application's own code. This leaves the application's confidential data vulnerable to theft and leakage by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Abhishek Bichhawat , Vineet Rajani , Jinank Jain , Deepak Garg , Christian Hammer

Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) has emerged as a vital complementary approach that operates in the early phases of the cyber threat lifecycle. CTI involves collecting, processing, and analyzing threat data to provide a more accurate and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Samaneh Shafee , Alysson Bessani , Pedro M. Ferreira

GraphFlow is a visual workflow system designed to improve the reliability of agentic AI automation in multi-step, mission-critical processes. In these workflows, small errors compound rapidly: under an idealized model of independent steps,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Drewry H. Morris , Luis Valles , Reza Hosseini Ghomi

Transformer-based malware detection systems operating on graph modalities such as control flow graphs (CFGs) achieve strong performance by modeling structural relationships in program behavior. However, their robustness to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andrew Wheeler , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta

Backdoor (trojan) attacks embed hidden, controllable behaviors into machine-learning models so that models behave normally on benign inputs but produce attacker-chosen outputs when a trigger is present. This survey reviews the rapidly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Yanjun Zhang , Leo Zhang , Shang Gao

This paper introduces BeaCon, a novel tool for the automated generation of adjustable container security policies. Unlike prior approaches, BeaCon leverages dynamic analysis to simulate realistic environments, uncovering container execution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haney Kang , Eduard Marin , Myoungsung You , Diego Perino , Seungwon Shin , Jinwoo Kim

This work studies the robust evaluation of iterative stochastic purification defenses under white-box adversarial attacks. Our key technical insight is that gradient checkpointing makes exact end-to-end gradient computation through long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuan Du , Mitchel Hill , HanQin Cai

Early identification of security issues in software development is vital to minimize their unanticipated impacts. Code review is a widely used manual analysis method that aims to uncover security issues along with other coding issues in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Wachiraphan Charoenwet , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Van-Thuan Pham , Christoph Treude

Code protections aim at blocking (or at least delaying) reverse engineering and tampering attacks to critical assets within programs. Knowing the way hackers understand protected code and perform attacks is important to achieve a stronger…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Mariano Ceccato , Paolo Tonella , Cataldo Basile , Bart Coppens , Bjorn De Sutter , Paolo Falcarin , Marco Torchiano

To detect and fix bugs and security vulnerabilities, software companies use static analysis as part of the development process. However, static analysis code itself is also prone to bugs. To ensure a consistent level of precision, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Lisa Nguyen Quang Do , Stefan Krüger , Patrick Hill , Karim Ali , Eric Bodden

Logic locking proposed to protect integrated circuits from serious hardware threats has been studied extensively over a decade. In these years, many efficient logic locking techniques have been proven to be broken. The state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Levent Aksoy , Muhammad Yasin , Samuel Pagliarini