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In recent years, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the realm of high-quality image generation, garnering increased attention. This surge in interest is paralleled by a growing concern over the security threats associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sen Li , Junchi Ma , Minhao Cheng

The rise of ``cyber slavery," a technologically facilitated variant of forced criminality, signifies a concerning convergence of human trafficking and digital exploitation. In Southeast Asia, trafficked individuals are increasingly coerced…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Gargi Sarkar , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

Securing cloud configurations is an elusive task, which is left up to system administrators who have to base their decisions on ``trial and error'' experimentations or by observing good practices (e.g., CIS Benchmarks). We propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Francesco Minna , Fabio Massacci , Katja Tuma

Modern machine learning increasingly requires training on a large collection of data from multiple sources, not all of which can be trusted. A particularly concerning scenario is when a small fraction of poisoned data changes the behavior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Jonathan Hayase , Weihao Kong , Raghav Somani , Sewoong Oh

Active distribution networks facilitating bidirectional power exchange with renewable energy resources are susceptible to cyberattacks due to integration of a diverse array of cyber components. This study introduces a grid-level defense…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Hampei Sasahara , Tatsuya Yamada , Jun-ichi Imura , Henrik Sandberg

3D perception in point clouds is transforming the perception ability of future intelligent machines. Point cloud algorithms, however, are plagued by irregular memory accesses, leading to massive inefficiencies in the memory sub-system,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yu Feng , Gunnar Hammonds , Yiming Gan , Yuhao Zhu

Integrated circuits (ICs) are essential to modern electronic systems, yet they face significant risks from physical reverse engineering (RE) attacks that compromise intellectual property (IP) and overall system security. While IC camouflage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Junling Fan , David Koblah , Domenic Forte

Computer network is unpredictable due to information warfare and is prone to various attacks. Such attacks on network compromise the most important attribute, the privacy. Most of such attacks are devised using special communication channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Anjan K , Jibi Abraham , Mamatha Jadhav

In recent years, cyberattacks - along with physical faults - have become an increasing factor causing system failures, especially in DER (Distributed Energy Resources) systems. In addition, according to the literature, a number of faults…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Mohammad Shamim Ahsan , Haizhou Wang , Venkateswara Reddy Motakatla , Minghui Zhu , Peng Liu

Cloud security concerns have been greatly realized in recent years due to the increase of complicated threats in the computing world. Many traditional solutions do not work well in real-time to detect or prevent more complex threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shamnad Mohamed Shaffi , Sunish Vengathattil , Jezeena Nikarthil Sidhick , Resmi Vijayan

Micro-segmentation is an emerging security technique that separates physical networks into isolated logical micro-segments (workloads). By tying fine-grained security policies to individual workloads, it limits the attacker's ability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nardine Basta , Muhammad Ikram , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Andy Walker

According to the World Economic Forum, cyber attacks are considered as one of the most important sources of risk to companies and institutions worldwide. Attacks can target the network, software, and/or hardware. During the past years, much…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tara Ghasempouri , Jaan Raik , Cezar Reinbrecht , Said Hamdioui , Mottaqiallah Taouil

Facing the dynamic complex cyber environments, internal and external cyber threat intelligence, and the increasing risk of cyber-attack, knowledge graphs show great application potential in the cyber security area because of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Kai Liu , Fei Wang , Zhaoyun Ding , Sheng Liang , Zhengfei Yu , Yun Zhou

The ability to accurately predict cyber-attacks would enable organizations to mitigate their growing threat and avert the financial losses and disruptions they cause. But how predictable are cyber-attacks? Researchers have attempted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Nazgol Tavabi , Andrés Abeliuk , Negar Mokhberian , Jeremy Abramson , Kristina Lerman

Motivated by the recent cyber attack on the Ukrainian power grid, we study cyber attacks on power grids that affect both the physical infrastructure and the data at the control center. In particular, we assume that an adversary attacks an…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Saleh Soltan , Mihalis Yannakakis , Gil Zussman

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) reinforce cyber defense by autonomously monitoring various data sources for traces of attacks. However, IDSs are also infamous for frequently raising false positives and alerts that are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Max Landauer , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger

Cybersecurity of industrial control system is a very complex and challenging research topic, due to the integration of these systems in national critical infrastructures. The control systems are now interconnected in industrial networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Emil Pricop , Sanda Florentina Mihalache

Cybersecurity risk is commonly expressed through impact and likelihood, yet likelihood remains difficult to estimate because cyber incidents are underreported, heterogeneous datasets are weakly comparable, and attacker behaviour changes…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Previous works have shown it extremely challenging to unlearn the undesired backdoor behavior from the network, since the entire network can be affected by the backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Haotao Wang , Junyuan Hong , Aston Zhang , Jiayu Zhou , Zhangyang Wang

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks infer the websites visited by users from encrypted traffic in anonymous networks such as Tor. Existing deep learning methods achieve high accuracy under the single-tab assumption but degrade substantially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yali Yuan , Yaosheng Liu , Qianqi Niu , Guang Cheng