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With the advent of modern technology, critical infrastructure, communications, and national security depend increasingly on space-based assets. These assets, along with associated assets like data relay systems and ground stations, are,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Nafisa Anjum , Tasnuva Farheen

Internet of Things (IoT) have gained popularity in recent times. With an increase in the number of IoT devices, security and privacy vulnerabilities are also increasing. For sensitive domains like healthcare and industrial sectors, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sai Sreekar Vankayalapati , Srijanee Mookherji , Vanga Odelu

This paper presents ESCAPE, an informed moving target defense mechanism for cloud containers. ESCAPE models the interaction between attackers and their target containers as a "predator searching for a prey" search game. Live migration of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Mohamed Azab , Bassem Mokhtar , Amr S. Abed , Mohamed Eltoweissy

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack usually refers to the form of long-term, covert and sustained attack on specific targets, with an adversary using advanced attack techniques to destroy the key facilities of an organization. APT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tiantian Zhu , Jinkai Yu , Tieming Chen , Jiayu Wang , Jie Ying , Ye Tian , Mingqi Lv , Yan Chen , Yuan Fan , Ting Wang

In this fast-evolving area of LLMs, our paper discusses the significant security risk presented by prompt injection attacks. It focuses on small open-sourced models, specifically the LLaMA family of models. We introduce novel defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Safwan Shaheer , G. M. Refatul Islam , Mohammad Rafid Hamid , Tahsin Zaman Jilan

Linux containers are gaining increasing traction in both individual and industrial use, and as these containers get integrated into mission-critical systems, real-time detection of malicious cyber attacks becomes a critical operational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Amr S. Abed , Charles Clancy , David S. Levy

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a crucial defense mechanism employed by modern operating systems to mitigate exploitation by randomizing processes' memory layouts. However, the stark reality is that real-world implementations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Lorenzo Binosi , Gregorio Barzasi , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Mario Polino

Nowadays, data has become an invaluable asset to entities and companies, and keeping it secure represents a major challenge. Data centers are responsible for storing data provided by software applications. Nevertheless, the number of…

GitHub plays a critical role in modern software supply chains, making its security an important research concern. Existing studies have primarily focused on CI/CD automation, collaboration patterns, and community management, while abuse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuli Cheng , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiongchi Yu , Shiqing Ma , Chao Shen , Yang Liu

The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a linchpin of modern computing systems, governing secure system initialization and booting. This paper is urgently needed because of the surge in UEFI-related attacks and vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Priyanka Prakash Surve , Oleg Brodt , Mark Yampolskiy , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Most of today's security solutions, such as security information and event management (SIEM) and signature based IDS, require the operator to evaluate potential attack vectors and update detection signatures and rules in a timely manner.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Markus Wurzenberger , Florian Skopik , Roman Fiedler , Wolfgang Kastner

AI agents interact with external environments through tool calls, exposing them to attacks like indirect prompt injection that can trigger unauthorized actions. Securing these agents is challenging: they behave autonomously and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tianneng Shi , Jingxuan He , Zhun Wang , Hongwei Li , Linyu Wu , Wenbo Guo , Dawn Song

By default, the Linux network stack is not configured for highspeed large file transfer. The reason behind this is to save memory resources. It is possible to tune the Linux network stack by increasing the network buffers size for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Bartosz Gembala , Anis Yazidi , Hårek Haugerud , Stefano Nichele

In guaranteeing the absence of adversarial examples in an instance's neighbourhood, certification mechanisms play an important role in demonstrating neural net robustness. In this paper, we ask if these certifications can compromise the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Andrew C. Cullen , Shijie Liu , Paul Montague , Sarah M. Erfani , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Attacks on Internet routing are typically viewed through the lens of availability and confidentiality, assuming an adversary that either discards traffic or performs eavesdropping. Yet, a strategic adversary can use routing attacks to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Yixin Sun , Maria Apostolaki , Henry Birge-Lee , Laurent Vanbever , Jennifer Rexford , Mung Chiang , Prateek Mittal

The eBPF framework enables execution of user-provided code in the Linux kernel. In the last few years, a large ecosystem of cloud services has leveraged eBPF to enhance container security, system observability, and network management.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Soo Yee Lim , Tanya Prasad , Xueyuan Han , Thomas Pasquier

The Linux shell is a command-line interpreter that provides users with a command interface to the operating system, allowing them to perform a variety of functions. Although very useful in building capabilities at the edge, the Linux shell…

Provenance plays a critical role in maintaining traceability of a system's actions for root cause analysis of security threats and impacts. Provenance collection is often incorporated into the reference monitor of systems to ensure that an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jinsong Mao , Benjamin E. Ujcich , Shiqing Ma

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly capable of autonomously conducting cyberattacks, posing significant threats to existing applications. This growing risk highlights the urgent need for a real-world benchmark to evaluate the…

The web ecosystem is rapidly evolving with changing business and functional models. Cloud platforms are available in a SaaS, PaaS and IaaS model designed around commoditized Linux based servers. 10 billion users will be online and accessing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Shaun C. D'Souza