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Transparency and security are both central to Responsible AI, but they may conflict in adversarial settings. We investigate the strategic effect of transparency for agents through the lens of transferable adversarial example attacks. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lucas Fenaux , Christopher Srinivasa , Florian Kerschbaum

Many cybersecurity problems that require real-time decision-making based on temporal observations can be abstracted as a sequence modeling problem, e.g., network intrusion detection from a sequence of arriving packets. Existing approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jingdi Chen , Hanhan Zhou , Yongsheng Mei , Gina Adam , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Tian Lan

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) infiltrate cyber systems and compromise specifically targeted data and/or resources through a sequence of stealthy attacks consisting of multiple stages. Dynamic information flow tracking has been proposed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Shana Moothedath , Dinuka Sahabandu , Joey Allen , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

The growing use of machine learning models in consequential settings has highlighted an important and seemingly irreconcilable tension between transparency and vulnerability to gaming. While this has sparked sizable debate in legal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Tom Yan , Chicheng Zhang

Distributed online optimization and game have been increasingly researched in the last decade, mostly motivated by its wide applications in sensor networks, robotics (e.g., distributed target tracking and formation control), smart grids,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xiuxian Li , Lihua Xie , Na Li

Commitments play a crucial role in game theory, shaping strategic interactions by either altering a player's own payoffs or influencing the incentives of others through outcome-contingent payments. While most research has focused on using…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Maria Alejandra Ramirez , Rosemarie Nagel , David Wolpert , Jürgen Jost

Machine learning models are shown to face a severe threat from Model Extraction Attacks, where a well-trained private model owned by a service provider can be stolen by an attacker pretending as a client. Unfortunately, prior works focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Shirui Pan , Xingliang Yuan

Reinforcement learning (RL), in conjunction with attack graphs and cyber terrain, are used to develop reward and state associated with determination of optimal paths for exfiltration of data in enterprise networks. This work builds on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tyler Cody , Abdul Rahman , Christopher Redino , Lanxiao Huang , Ryan Clark , Akshay Kakkar , Deepak Kushwaha , Paul Park , Peter Beling , Edward Bowen

Most recent studies have shown several vulnerabilities to attacks with the potential to jeopardize the integrity of the model, opening in a few recent years a new window of opportunity in terms of cyber-security. The main interest of this…

The present study deals with Transparent Data Encryption which is a technology used to solve the problems of security of data. Transparent Data Encryption means encrypting databases on hard disk and on any backup media. Present day global…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Dr. Anwar Pasha Deshmukh , Dr. Riyazuddin Qureshi

An insider is a team member who covertly deviates from the team's optimal collaborative strategy to pursue a private objective while still appearing cooperative. Such an insider may initially behave cooperatively but later switch to selfish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Gehui Xu , Kaiwen Chen , Zhong-Ping Jiang , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Machine learning models are vulnerable to data inference attacks, such as membership inference and model inversion attacks. In these types of breaches, an adversary attempts to infer a data record's membership in a dataset or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Sheng Shen , Tianqing Zhu , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

A major limitation of open P2P networks is the lack of strong identities. This allows any agent to attack the system by creating multiple false personas, thereby disrupting the overlay network's connectivity and sabotaging its operation. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Saar Tochner , Aviv Zohar

An exploratory data analysis is an essential step for every data analyst to gain insights, evaluate data quality and (if required) select a machine learning model for further processing. While privacy-preserving machine learning is on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Mira Pauli , Johanna Reichert , Florian Tschorsch

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on applications of economic and pricing theory to security issues in wireless networks. Unlike wireline networks, the broadcast nature and the highly dynamic change of network…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Nguyen Cong Luong , Dinh Thai Hoang , Ping Wang , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

In this evolving era of machine learning security, membership inference attacks have emerged as a potent threat to the confidentiality of sensitive data. In this attack, adversaries aim to determine whether a particular point was used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Abhishek Sinha , Himanshi Tibrewal , Mansi Gupta , Nikhar Waghela , Shivank Garg

Although organizations are continuously making concerted efforts to harden their systems against network attacks by air-gapping critical systems, attackers continuously adapt and uncover covert channels to exfiltrate data from air-gapped…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Matthew Chan , Nathaniel Snyder , Marcus Lucas , Luis Garcia , Oleg Sokolsky , James Weimer , Insup Lee , Paulo Tabuada , Saman Zonouz , Mani Srivastava

Among the most fundamental tools for social network analysis are centrality measures, which quantify the importance of every node in the network. This centrality analysis typically disregards the possibility that the network may have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Marcin Waniek , Jan Woźnica , Kai Zhou , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Talal Rahwan , Tomasz Michalak

The purpose of this project is to assess how well defenders can detect DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) file exfiltration, and which evasion strategies can be used by attackers. While providing a reproducible toolkit to generate, intercept and analyze…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Adam Elaoumari

Data protection is the process of securing sensitive information from being corrupted, compromised, or lost. A hyperconnected network, on the other hand, is a computer networking trend in which communication occurs over a network. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Jannatul Ferdous , Rafiqul Islam , Maumita Bhattacharya , Md Zahidul Islam