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Developers usually use TPLs to facilitate the development of the projects to avoid reinventing the wheels, however, the vulnerable TPLs indeed cause severe security threats. The majority of existing research only considered whether projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Fangyuan Zhang , Lingling Fan , Sen Chen , Miaoying Cai , Sihan Xu , Lida Zhao

Cybersecurity education is considered an important part of undergraduate computing curricula, but many institutions teach it only in dedicated courses or tracks. This optionality risks students graduating with limited exposure to secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Lwin Khin Shar , Christopher M. Poskitt , Kyong Jin Shim , Li Ying Leonard Wong

Traditional security scanners fail when facing new attack patterns they haven't seen before. They rely on fixed rules and predetermined signatures, making them blind to novel threats. We present a fundamentally different approach: instead…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ayush Chaudhary

Integrating security testing into the workflow of software developers not only can save resources for separate security testing but also reduce the cost of fixing security vulnerabilities by detecting them early in the development cycle. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Mahmoud Mohammadi , Bill Chu , Heather Richter Lipford , Emerson Murphy-Hill

Nowadays, companies are highly exposed to cyber security threats. In many industrial domains, protective measures are being deployed and actively supported by standards. However the global process remains largely dependent on document…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Christophe Ponsard

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

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

Organizations struggle to handle sheer number of vulnerabilities in their cloud environments. The de facto methodology used for prioritizing vulnerabilities is to use Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). However, CVSS has inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Muhammed Fatih Bulut , Abdulhamid Adebayo , Daby Sow , Steve Ocepek

With the rapid advancement of information technology, the complexity of applications continues to increase, and the cybersecurity challenges we face are also escalating. This paper aims to investigate the methods and practices of system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunyi Zhang , Jin Zeng , Xiaoqi Li

In vision-based object classification systems imaging sensors perceive the environment and machine learning is then used to detect and classify objects for decision-making purposes; e.g., to maneuver an automated vehicle around an obstacle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yanmao Man , Ming Li , Ryan Gerdes

Honeypots are decoy systems that lure attackers by presenting them with a seemingly vulnerable system. They provide an early detection mechanism as well as a method for learning how adversaries work and think. However, over the last years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shreyas Srinivasa , Jens Myrup Pedersen , Emmanouil Vasilomanolakis

Cloud security is one of the biggest concerns for many companies. The growth in the number and size of websites increases the need for better securing those websites. Manual testing and detection of web vulnerabilities can be very time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Emre Erturk , Angel Rajan

Civilian-GNSS is vulnerable to signal spoofing attacks, and countermeasures based on cryptographic authentication are being proposed to protect against these attacks. Both Galileo and GPS are currently testing broadcast authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Maryam Motallebighomi , Harshad Sathaye , Mridula Singh , Aanjhan Ranganathan

Fingerprint verification systems are becoming ubiquitous in everyday life. This trend is propelled especially by the proliferation of mobile devices with fingerprint sensors such as smartphones and tablet computers, and fingerprint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Carsten Gottschlich

While machine learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples, it still lacks systematic procedures and tools for evaluating its security in different application contexts. In this article, we discuss how to develop automated and scalable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Although anti-virus software has significantly evolved over the last decade, classic signature matching based on byte patterns is still a prevalent concept for identifying security threats. Anti-virus signatures are a simple and fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Christian Wressnegger , Kevin Freeman , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck

Background: Security regressions are vulnerabilities introduced in a previously unaffected software system. They often happen as a result of source code changes (e.g., a bug fix) and can have severe effects. Aims: To increase the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Larissa Braz , Enrico Fregnan , Vivek Arora , Alberto Bacchelli

Cyber-physical systems can be subject to sensor attacks, e.g., sensor spoofing, leading to unsafe behaviors. This paper addresses this problem in the context of linear systems when an omniscient attacker can spoof several system sensors at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

X-ray imagery security screening is essential to maintaining transport security against a varying profile of threat or prohibited items. Particular interest lies in the automatic detection and classification of weapons such as firearms and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Yona Falinie A. Gaus , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Samet Akcay , Toby P. Breckon

In this contribution, the vulnerabilities of iris-based recognition systems to direct attacks are studied. A database of fake iris images has been created from real iris of the BioSec baseline database. Iris images are printed using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Virginia Ruiz-Albacete , Pedro Tome-Gonzalez , Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Javier Galbally , Julian Fierrez , Javier Ortega-Garcia