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DDoS attacks have become a major threat to the security of IoT devices and can cause severe damage to the network infrastructure. IoT devices suffer from the inherent problem of resource constraints and are therefore susceptible to such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Sandipan Dey , Payal Santosh Kate , Vatsala Upadhyay , Abhishek Vaish

The increased need for unattended authentication in multiple scenarios has motivated a wide deployment of biometric systems in the last few years. This has in turn led to the disclosure of security concerns specifically related to biometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Ruben Tolosana , Marta Gomez-Barrero , Christoph Busch , Javier Ortega-Garcia

Smart grid's objective is to enable electricity and information to flow two-way while providing effective, robust, computerized, and decentralized energy delivery. This necessitates the use of state estimation-based techniques and real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Mostafa Mohammadpourfard , Istemihan Genc , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Charalambos Konstantinou

Website Fingerprinting (WF) is a type of traffic analysis attack that enables a local passive eavesdropper to infer the victim's activity, even when the traffic is protected by a VPN or an anonymity system like Tor. Leveraging a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Mohsen Imani , Nate Mathews , Matthew Wright

Website fingerprinting enables a local eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting attacks have been shown to be effective even against Tor. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Payap Sirinam , Mohsen Imani , Marc Juarez , Matthew Wright

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial patches has motivated numerous defense strategies for boosting model robustness. However, the prevailing defenses depend on single observation or pre-established adversary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lingxuan Wu , Xiao Yang , Yinpeng Dong , Liuwei Xie , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are essential for maintaining indoor environmental quality, but their interconnected nature and reliance on sensor networks make them vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks. Such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Zhenan Feng , Ehsan Nekouei

Due to the growing demand for privacy protection, encrypted tunnels have become increasingly popular among mobile app users, which brings new challenges to app fingerprinting (AF)-based network management. Existing methods primarily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Zheyuan Gu , Chang Liu , Xiyuan Zhang , Chen Yang , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Zhen Li , Sijia Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where attackers implant hidden triggers during training to maliciously control model behavior. Topological Evolution Dynamics (TED) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiaoxing Mo , Yuxuan Cheng , Nan Sun , Leo Yu Zhang , Wei Luo , Shang Gao

The proposed UniGuard is the first unified online detection framework capable of simultaneously addressing adversarial examples and backdoor attacks. UniGuard builds upon two key insights: first, both AE and backdoor attacks have to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Anmin Fu , Fanyu Meng , Huaibing Peng , Hua Ma , Zhi Zhang , Yifeng Zheng , Willy Susilo , Yansong Gao

Next-generation networks aim for comprehensive connectivity, interconnecting humans, machines, devices, and systems seamlessly. This interconnectivity raises concerns about privacy and security, given the potential network-wide impact of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Abdurrahman Elmaghbub , Bechir Hamdaoui

Federated edge learning can be essential in supporting privacy-preserving, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled activities in digital twin 6G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, we need to also consider the potential of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Burak Kantarci , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Merouane Debbah , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Large pre-trained models have achieved notable success across a range of downstream tasks. However, recent research shows that a type of adversarial attack ($\textit{i.e.,}$ backdoor attack) can manipulate the behavior of machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dongliang Guo , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Junfeng Guo , Thomas Hartvigsen , Sheng Li

The wireless spectrum's increasing complexity poses challenges and opportunities, highlighting the necessity for real-time solutions and robust data processing capabilities. Digital Twin (DT), virtual replicas of physical systems, integrate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Clifton Paul Robinson , Andrea Lacava , Pedram Johari , Francesca Cuomo , Tommaso Melodia

Wireless earbuds are an appealing platform for wearable computing on-the-go. However, their small size and out-of-view location mean they support limited different inputs. We propose finger identification input on earbuds as a novel…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiwan Kim , Mingyu Han , Ian Oakley

For the time being, mobile devices employ implicit authentication mechanisms, namely, unlock patterns, PINs or biometric-based systems such as fingerprint or face recognition. While these systems are prone to well-known attacks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Cezara Benegui , Radu Tudor Ionescu

The proliferation of electronic devices has greatly transformed every aspect of human life, such as communication, healthcare, transportation, and energy. Unfortunately, the global electronics supply chain is vulnerable to various attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Blessing Airehenbuwa , Touseef Hasan , Souvika Sarkar , Ujjwal Guin

The current paper addresses relevant network security vulnerabilities introduced by network devices within the emerging paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) as well as the urgent need to mitigate the negative effects of some types of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Pedro Manso , Jose Moura , Carlos Serrao

Website fingerprinting enables an eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting (WF) attacks have demonstrated effectiveness even against Tor-protected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xinhao Deng , Xiyuan Zhao , Qilei Yin , Zhuotao Liu , Qi Li , Mingwei Xu , Ke Xu , Jianping Wu

The astonishing spread of Android OS, not only in smartphones and tablets but also in IoT devices, makes this operating system a very tempting target for malware threats. Indeed, the latter are expanding at a similar rate. In this respect,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-21 ElMouatez Billah Karbab , Mourad Debbabi , Saed Alrabaee , Djedjiga Mouheb