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The widespread adoption of embedded systems has led to their deployment in critical real-world applications, making them attractive targets for malicious actors. These devices face unique challenges in mitigating vulnerabilities due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 André Cirne , Patrícia R. Sousa , João S. Resende , Luís Antunes

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT has been widely used in various applications. The new feature - customization of ChatGPT models by users to cater to specific needs has opened new frontiers in AI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jiahao Yu , Yuhang Wu , Dong Shu , Mingyu Jin , Sabrina Yang , Xinyu Xing

Deep neural networks are found to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The prompt-based defense has been increasingly studied due to its high efficiency. However, existing prompt-based defenses mainly exploited mixed prompt patterns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yibo Xu , Dawei Zhou , Decheng Liu , Nannan Wang

The adversarial patch attack against image classification models aims to inject adversarially crafted pixels within a restricted image region (i.e., a patch) for inducing model misclassification. This attack can be realized in the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Chong Xiang , Saeed Mahloujifar , Prateek Mittal

Fingerprint authentication has been extensively employed in contemporary identity verification systems owing to its rapidity and cost-effectiveness. Due to its widespread use, fingerprint leakage may cause sensitive information theft,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Man Zhou , Shuao Su , Qian Wang , Qi Li , Yuting Zhou , Xiaojing Ma , Zhengxiong Li

Localized adversarial patches aim to induce misclassification in machine learning models by arbitrarily modifying pixels within a restricted region of an image. Such attacks can be realized in the physical world by attaching the adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Chong Xiang , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Adversarial patch attacks inject localized perturbations into images to mislead deep vision models. These attacks can be physically deployed, posing serious risks to real-world applications. In this paper, we propose CertMask, a certifiably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xuntao Lyu , Ching-Chi Lin , Abdullah Al Arafat , Georg von der Brüggen , Jian-Jia Chen , Zhishan Guo

Trusted execution environments in several existing and upcoming CPUs demonstrate the success of confidential computing, with the caveat that tenants cannot securely use accelerators such as GPUs and FPGAs. In this paper, we reconsider the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Supraja Sridhara , Andrin Bertschi , Benedict Schlüter , Mark Kuhne , Fabio Aliberti , Shweta Shinde

State-of-the-art object detectors are vulnerable to localized patch hiding attacks, where an adversary introduces a small adversarial patch to make detectors miss the detection of salient objects. The patch attacker can carry out a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Chong Xiang , Prateek Mittal

Hardware supply-chain attacks are raising significant security threats to the boot process of multiprocessor systems. This paper identifies a new, prevalent hardware supply-chain attack surface that can bypass multiprocessor secure boot due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhuoruo Zhang , Rui Chang , Mingshuai Chen , Wenbo Shen , Chenyang Yu , He Huang , Qinming Dai , Yongwang Zhao

The broadcasting nature of the wireless medium makes exposure to eavesdroppers a potential threat. Physical Layer Security (PLS) has been widely recognized as a promising security measure complementary to encryption. It has recently been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Parastoo Sadeghi , Faycal Bouhafs , Neda Aboutorab , Frank den Hartog

Traffic analysis attacks to identify which web page a client is browsing, using only her packet metadata --- known as website fingerprinting --- has been proven effective in closed-world experiments against privacy technologies like Tor.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Tao Wang

State-of-the-art defenses against adversarial patch attacks can now achieve strong certifiable robustness with a marginal drop in model utility. However, this impressive performance typically comes at the cost of 10-100x more inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chong Xiang , Tong Wu , Sihui Dai , Jonathan Petit , Suman Jana , Prateek Mittal

With the latest developments in technology, extra and extra human beings depend on their private gadgets to keep their touchy information. Concurrently, the surroundings in which these gadgets are linked have grown to grow to be greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rushit Dave

Anomaly Detection (AD) and Anomaly Localization (AL) are crucial in fields that demand high reliability, such as medical imaging and industrial monitoring. However, current AD and AL approaches are often susceptible to adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mojtaba Nafez , Amirhossein Koochakian , Arad Maleki , Jafar Habibi , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Current authentication methods on the Web have serious weaknesses. First, services heavily rely on the traditional password paradigm, which diminishes the end-users' security and usability. Second, the lack of attribute-based authentication…

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are sophisticated multi-step attacks, planned and executed by skilled adversaries targeting modern government and enterprise networks. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) and User and Entity Behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Hazem M. Soliman , Geoff Salmon , Dušan Sovilj , Mohan Rao

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) such as ARM TrustZone are widely used in IoT and embedded devices to protect sensitive code and data. However, most existing defenses focus on secure boot or REE-side monitoring and provide little…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jingkai Mao , Xiaolin Chang

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are sophisticated, targeted cyberattacks designed to gain unauthorized access to systems and remain undetected for extended periods. To evade detection, APT cyberattacks deceive defense layers with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Ngoc Hoang , Petko Valtchev , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

Current methods for authentication and key agreement based on public-key cryptography are vulnerable to quantum computing. We propose a novel approach based on artificial intelligence research in which communicating parties are viewed as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ibrahim H. Ahmed , Josiah P. Hanna , Elliot Fosong , Stefano V. Albrecht