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Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

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Due to their widespread use in industry, several techniques have been proposed in the literature to fuzz REST APIs. Existing fuzzers for REST APIs have been focusing on detecting crashes (e.g., 500 HTTP server error status code). However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Robustness to out-of-distribution (OOD) samples is crucial for safely deploying machine learning models in the open world. Recent works have focused on designing scoring functions to quantify OOD uncertainty. Setting appropriate thresholds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Harit Vishwakarma , Heguang Lin , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak

Memory safety is a key security property that stops memory corruption vulnerabilities. Existing sanitizers enforce checks and catch such bugs during development and testing. However, they either provide partial memory safety or have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Yuan Li , Wende Tan , Zhizheng Lv , Songtao Yang , Mathias Payer , Ying Liu , Chao Zhang

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the effects of data poisoning attacks on data-driven control methods. Poisoning attacks are well-known to the Machine Learning community, which, however, make use of assumptions, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Alessio Russo

Context: Static code analysis (SCA) tools play a vital role in software development, reducing the cost and time required for code reviews. However, high false-positive and false-negative rates are reported for the best tools in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lakmal Deshapriya , Sherlock A. Licorish , Brendon J. Woodford

Developers today use significant amounts of open source code, surfacing the need for ways to automatically audit and upgrade library dependencies, and giving rise to the subfield of Software Composition Analysis (SCA). SCA products are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Darius Foo , Jason Yeo , Hao Xiao , Asankhaya Sharma

The modernization of existing and new nuclear power plants with digital instrumentation and control systems (DI&C) is a recent and highly trending topic. However, there lacks strong consensus on best-estimate reliability methodologies by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Edward Chen , Han Bao , Tate Shorthill , Carl Elks , Athira Varma Jayakumar , Nam Dinh

Existing malicious code detection techniques demand the integration of multiple tools to detect different malware patterns, often suffering from high misclassification rates. Therefore, malicious code detection techniques could be enhanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Nusrat Zahan , Philipp Burckhardt , Mikola Lysenko , Feross Aboukhadijeh , Laurie Williams

Data poisoning is one of the most relevant security threats against machine learning and data-driven technologies. Since many applications rely on untrusted training data, an attacker can easily craft malicious samples and inject them into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Nicolas M. Müller , Simon Roschmann , Konstantin Böttinger

Recent progress in machine learning has generated promising results in behavioral malware detection. Behavioral modeling identifies malicious processes via features derived by their runtime behavior. Behavioral features hold great promise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Fabio De Gaspari , Dorjan Hitaj , Giulio Pagnotta , Lorenzo De Carli , Luigi V. Mancini

A promising avenue for improving the effectiveness of behavioral-based malware detectors would be to combine fast traditional machine learning detectors with high-accuracy, but time-consuming deep learning models. The main idea would be to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ruimin Sun , Marcus Botacin , Nikolaos Sapountzis , Xiaoyong Yuan , Matt Bishop , Donald E Porter , Xiaolin Li , Andre Gregio , Daniela Oliveira

Poisoning attacks are a primary threat to machine learning models, aiming to compromise their performance and reliability by manipulating training datasets. This paper introduces a novel attack - Outlier-Oriented Poisoning (OOP) attack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Anum Paracha , Junaid Arshad , Mohamed Ben Farah , Khalid Ismail

Modern machine learning pipelines leverage large amounts of public data, making it infeasible to guarantee data quality and leaving models open to poisoning and backdoor attacks. Provably bounding model behavior under such attacks remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Philip Sosnin , Mark N. Müller , Maximilian Baader , Calvin Tsay , Matthew Wicker

Software supply-chain attacks are an important and ongoing concern in the open source software ecosystem. These attacks maintain the standard functionality that a component implements, but additionally hide malicious functionality activated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Evangelos Lamprou , Julian Dai , Grigoris Ntousakis , Martin C. Rinard , Nikos Vasilakis

Anti-analysis techniques, particularly packing, challenge malware analysts, making packer identification fundamental. Existing packer identifiers have significant limitations: signature-based methods lack flexibility and struggle against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Marco Di Gennaro , Mario D'Onghia , Mario Polino , Stefano Zanero , Michele Carminati

Selecting third-party software packages in open-source ecosystems like Python is challenging due to the large number of alternatives and limited transparent evidence for comparison. Generative AI tools are increasingly used in development…

Context: Static analyses are well-established to aid in understanding bugs or vulnerabilities during the development process or in large-scale studies. A low false-positive rate is essential for the adaption in practice and for precise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anna-Katharina Wickert , Michael Schlichtig , Marvin Vogel , Lukas Winter , Mira Mezini , Eric Bodden

Vulnerable software represents a tremendous threat to modern information systems. Vulnerabilities in widespread applications may be used to spread malware, steal money and conduct target attacks. To address this problem, developers and…

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