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The emergence of online social networks and the growing popularity of digital communication has resulted in an increasingly amount of information about individuals available on the Internet. Social network users are given the freedom to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Anna Squicciarini , Christopher Griffin

Public access to digital data can turn out to be a cause of undesirable information disclosure. That's why it is vital to somehow protect the data before publishing. There exist two main subclasses of such a task, namely, providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

Cloud providers' support for network evasion techniques that misrepresent the server's domain name is more prevalent than previously believed, which has serious implications for security and privacy due to the reliance on domain names in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Blake Anderson , David McGrew

Social media has become a popular means for people to consume news. Meanwhile, it also enables the wide dissemination of fake news, i.e., news with intentionally false information, which brings significant negative effects to the society.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Kai Shu , Deepak Mahudeswaran , Suhang Wang , Dongwon Lee , Huan Liu

Minimizing privacy leakage while ensuring data utility is a critical problem to data holders in a privacy-preserving data publishing task. Most prior research concerns only with one type of data and resorts to a single obscuring method,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Xiao Han , Yuncong Yang , Junjie Wu

We present a practical method for protecting data during the inference phase of deep learning based on bipartite topology threat modeling and an interactive adversarial deep network construction. We term this approach \emph{Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Jianfeng Chi , Emmanuel Owusu , Xuwang Yin , Tong Yu , William Chan , Patrick Tague , Yuan Tian

Internet technology is so pervasive today, for example, from online social networking to online banking, it has made people's lives more comfortable. Due the growth of Internet technology, security threats to systems and networks are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-30 B. B. Gupta , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage , Konstantinos E. Psannis

Deepfakes, synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, pose a growing threat to information integrity, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. This challenge is amplified by the increasing realism of modern generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Victor Livernoche , Akshatha Arodi , Andreea Musulan , Zachary Yang , Adam Salvail , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Jean-François Godbout , Reihaneh Rabbany

We introduce the concept of deceptive diffusion -- training a generative AI model to produce adversarial images. Whereas a traditional adversarial attack algorithm aims to perturb an existing image to induce a misclassificaton, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Lucas Beerens , Catherine F. Higham , Desmond J. Higham

Fake news has become omnipresent in digitalized areas such as social media platforms. While being disseminated online, it also poses a threat to individuals and societies offline, for example, in the context of democratic elections.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Enrico Bunde , Niklas Kühl , Christian Meske

Deception is being increasingly explored as a cyberdefense strategy to protect operational systems. We are studying implementation of deception-in-depth strategies with initially three logical layers: network, host, and data. We draw ideas…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jason Landsborough , Neil C. Rowe , Thuy D. Nguyen , Sunny Fugate

Generative models producing synthetic data are meant to provide a privacy-friendly approach to releasing data. However, their privacy guarantees are only considered robust when models satisfy Differential Privacy (DP). Alas, this is not a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Several official statistics agencies release synthetic data as public use microdata files. In practice, synthetic data do not admit accurate results for every analysis. Thus, it is beneficial for agencies to provide users with feedback on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tong Lin , Jerome P. Reiter

Data protection algorithms are becoming increasingly important to support modern business needs for facilitating data sharing and data monetization. Anonymization is an important step before data sharing. Several organizations leverage on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Manish Kesarwani , Akshar Kaul , Stefano Braghin , Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos

Generative models learn the distribution of data from a sample dataset and can then generate new data instances. Recent advances in deep learning has brought forth improvements in generative model architectures, and some state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Luke A. Bauer , Vincent Bindschaedler

Cellular providers and data aggregating companies crowdsource celluar signal strength measurements from user devices to generate signal maps, which can be used to improve network performance. Recognizing that this data collection may be at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Jiang Zhang , Lillian Clark , Matthew Clark , Konstantinos Psounis , Peter Kairouz

Synthetic datasets have long been thought of as second-rate, to be used only when "real" data collected directly from the real world is unavailable. But this perspective assumes that raw data is clean, unbiased, and trustworthy, which it…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

With the explosive advancement of AI technologies in recent years, the scene of the disinformation research is also expected to rapidly change. In this viewpoint article, in particular, we first present the notion of "disinformation 2.0" in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Wojciech Mazurczyk , Dongwon Lee , Andreas Vlachos

Disinformation refers to false information deliberately spread to influence the general public, and the negative impact of disinformation on society can be observed in numerous issues, such as political agendas and manipulating financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Dongqi Fu , Yikun Ban , Hanghang Tong , Ross Maciejewski , Jingrui He

Sharing health and behavioral data raises significant privacy concerns, as conventional de-identification methods are susceptible to privacy attacks. Differential Privacy (DP) provides formal guarantees against re-identification risks, but…