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Outsourcing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing to offshore foundries has grown exponentially in recent years. Given the critical role of ICs in the control and operation of vehicular systems and other modern engineering designs, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Walid Saad , Anibal Sanjab , Yunpeng Wang , Charles Kamhoua , Kevin Kwiat

Fuzzing has been an important approach for finding bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. Many fuzzers deployed in industry run daily and can generate an overwhelming number of crashes. Diagnosing such crashes can be very challenging and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ashwin Kallingal Joshy , Wei Le

Hardware intellectual property (IP) piracy is an emerging threat to the global supply chain. Correspondingly, various countermeasures aim to protect hardware IPs, such as logic locking, camouflaging, and split manufacturing. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Zhaokun Han , Mohammed Shayan , Aneesh Dixit , Mustafa Shihab , Yiorgos Makris , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

Bug reports are common artefacts in software development. They serve as the main channel for users to communicate to developers information about the issues that they encounter when using released versions of software programs. In the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arthur D. Sawadogo , Quentin Guimard , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Abdoul Kader Kaboré , Jacques Klein , Naouel Moha

Considering the wide application of network embedding methods in graph data mining, inspired by the adversarial attack in deep learning, this paper proposes a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based Euclidean Distance Attack strategy (EDA) to attack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Shanqing Yu , Jun Zheng , Jinhuan Wang , Jian Zhang , Lihong Chen , Qi Xuan , Jinyin Chen , Dan Zhang , Qingpeng Zhang

This study investigates the vulnerabilities of autonomous navigation and landing systems in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles. Specifically, it focuses on Trojan attacks that target deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Reza Ahmari , Ahmad Mohammadi , Vahid Hemmati , Mohammed Mynuddin , Mahmoud Nabil Mahmoud , Parham Kebria , Abdollah Homaifar , Mehrdad Saif

Analog and mixed-signal (A/MS) integrated circuits (ICs) are crucial in modern electronics, playing key roles in signal processing, amplification, sensing, and power management. Many IC companies outsource manufacturing to third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jayeeta Chaudhuri , Dhruv Thapar , Arjun Chaudhuri , Farshad Firouzi , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Fuzz testing has enjoyed great success at discovering security critical bugs in real software. Recently, researchers have devoted significant effort to devising new fuzzing techniques, strategies, and algorithms. Such new ideas are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-22 George Klees , Andrew Ruef , Benji Cooper , Shiyi Wei , Michael Hicks

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable success across numerous tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to Trojan (backdoor) attacks, raising serious concerns about their safety in real-world mission-critical applications. A common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hossein Mirzaei , Zeinab Taghavi , Sepehr Rezaee , Masoud Hadi , Moein Madadi , Mackenzie W. Mathis

A trojan backdoor is a hidden pattern typically implanted in a deep neural network. It could be activated and thus forces that infected model behaving abnormally only when an input data sample with a particular trigger present is fed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Wenbo Guo , Lun Wang , Xinyu Xing , Min Du , Dawn Song

A niche corner of the Web3 world is increasingly making use of hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to build decentralized infrastructure. One of the motivations to use TEEs is to go beyond the current performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Sylvain Bellemare

Security vulnerabilities play a vital role in network security system. Fuzzing technology is widely used as a vulnerability discovery technology to reduce damage in advance. However, traditional fuzzing techniques have many challenges, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yan Wang , Peng Jia , Luping Liu , Jiayong Liu

Neural network (NN) trojaning attack is an emerging and important attack model that can broadly damage the system deployed with NN models. Existing studies have explored the outsourced training attack scenario and transfer learning attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Yu Ji , Zixin Liu , Xing Hu , Peiqi Wang , Youhui Zhang

Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

Additive Manufacturing (AM) systems such as 3D printers use inexpensive microcontrollers that rarely feature cybersecurity defenses. This is a risk, especially given the rising threat landscape within the larger digital manufacturing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Hammond Pearce , Kaushik Yanamandra , Nikhil Gupta , Ramesh Karri

Like all software systems, the execution of deep learning models is dictated in part by logic represented as data in memory. For decades, attackers have exploited traditional software programs by manipulating this data. We propose a live…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Robby Costales , Chengzhi Mao , Raphael Norwitz , Bryan Kim , Junfeng Yang

The majority of Ethical Hacking (EH) tools utilised in penetration testing are developed by practitioners within the industry or underground communities. Similarly, academic researchers have also contributed to developing security tools.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Paolo Modesti , Lewis Golightly , Louis Holmes , Chidimma Opara , Marco Moscini

In this paper, we introduce the TrojAI software framework, an open source set of Python tools capable of generating triggered (poisoned) datasets and associated deep learning (DL) models with trojans at scale. We utilize the developed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Kiran Karra , Chace Ashcraft , Neil Fendley

Digital Manufacturing (DM) refers to the on-going adoption of smarter, more agile manufacturing processes and cyber-physical systems. This includes modern techniques and technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM)/3D printing, as well…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Prithwish Basu Roy , Mudit Bhargava , Chia-Yun Chang , Ellen Hui , Nikhil Gupta , Ramesh Karri , Hammond Pearce

The proliferation of AI technology gives rise to a variety of security threats, which significantly compromise the confidentiality and integrity of AI models and applications. Existing software-based solutions mainly target one specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xiaobei Yan , Han Qiu , Tianwei Zhang