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Benchmarking is an important measure for companies to investigate their performance and to increase efficiency. As companies usually are reluctant to provide their key performance indicators (KPIs) for public benchmarks, privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Kilian Becher , Martin Beck , Thorsten Strufe

Modern software supply chain attacks consist of introducing new, malicious capabilities into trusted third-party software components, in order to propagate to a victim through a package dependency chain. These attacks are especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Carmine Cesarano , Martin Monperrus , Roberto Natella

Infrastructures supporting distributed scientific collaborations must address competing goals in both providing high-performance access to resources while simultaneously securing the infrastructure against security threats. The NetBASILISK…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jem Guhit , Edward Colone , Shawn McKee , Kris Steinhoff , Katarina Thomas

Timing-based side and covert channels in processor caches continue to be a threat to modern computers. This work shows for the first time a systematic, large-scale analysis of Arm devices and the detailed results of attacks the processors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shuwen Deng , Nikolay Matyunin , Wenjie Xiong , Stefan Katzenbeisser , Jakub Szefer

The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities in the area of cybersecurity, especially in the exploitation automation landscape and penetration testing. This study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Wanni Vidulige Ishan Perera , Xing Liu , Fan liang , Junyi Zhang

Security attacks are growing in an exponential manner and their impact on existing systems is seriously high and can lead to dangerous consequences. However, in order to reduce the effect of these attacks, penetration tests are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jean-Paul A. Yaacoub , Hassan N. Noura , Ola Salman , Ali Chehab

AI-based defensive solutions are necessary to defend networks and information assets against intelligent automated attacks. Gathering enough realistic data for training machine learning-based defenses is a significant practical challenge.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Kalle Kujanpää , Willie Victor , Alexander Ilin

Addressing a critical aspect of cybersecurity in online gaming, this paper systematically evaluates the extent to which kernel-level anti-cheat systems mirror the properties of rootkits, highlighting the importance of distinguishing between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Christoph Dorner , Lukas Daniel Klausner

In recent years, recommender systems have become a ubiquitous part of our daily lives, while they suffer from a high risk of being attacked due to the growing commercial and social values. Despite significant research progress in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Changsheng Wang , Jianbai Ye , Wenjie Wang , Chongming Gao , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Browsers, Library OSes, and system emulators rely on sandboxes and in-process isolation to emulate system resources and securely isolate untrusted components. All access to system resources like system calls (syscall) need to be securely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Fangfei Yang , Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner , Chia-Che Tsai , Kelly Kaoudis , Nathan Dautenhahn

This report presents the design of the Scope infrastructure for extensible and portable benchmarking. Improvements in high- performance computing systems rely on coordination across different levels of system abstraction. Developing and…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Carl Pearson , Abdul Dakkak , Cheng Li , Sarah Hashash , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

In the UNIX/Linux environment the kernel can log every command process created by every user using process accounting. This data has many potential uses, including the investigation of security incidents. However, process accounting data is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Katherine Luo , Yifan Li , Charis Ermopoulos , William Yurcik , Adam Slagell

Recent Microsoft security bulletins show that kernel vulnerabilities are becoming more and more important security threats. Despite the pretty extensive security mitigations many of the kernel vulnerabilities are still exploitable.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-05-11 Piotr Bania

With the alarming rate of security advisories and privacy concerns on connected devices, there is an urgent need for strong isolation guarantees in resource-constrained devices that demand very lightweight solutions. However, the status quo…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Zahra Tarkhani , Anil Madhavapeddy

In the last two decades, the evolving cyber-threat landscape has brought to center stage the contentious tradeoffs between the security and performance of modern microprocessors. The guarantees provided by the hardware to ensure no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Nikhilesh Singh , Vinod Ganesan , Chester Rebeiro

The security of billions of devices worldwide depends on the security and robustness of the mainline Linux kernel. However, the increasing number of kernel-specific vulnerabilities, especially memory safety vulnerabilities, shows that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Elena Reshetova , Hans Liljestrand , Andrew Paverd , N. Asokan

The landscape of available textual adversarial attacks keeps growing, posing severe threats and raising concerns regarding the deep NLP system's integrity. However, the crucial problem of defending against malicious attacks has only drawn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Marine Picot , Nathan Noiry , Guillaume Staerman , Pablo Piantanida

Over the years, the complexity of the Linux Security Module (LSM) is keeping increasing, and the count of the authorization hooks is nearly doubled. It is important to provide up-to-date measurement results of LSM for system practitioners…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Wenhui Zhang , Trent Jaeger , Peng Liu

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

Software vulnerabilities continue to grow in volume and remain difficult to detect in practice. Although learning-based vulnerability detection has progressed, existing benchmarks are largely function-centric and fail to capture realistic,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Amine Lbath