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Virtual Reality (VR) has gained popularity by providing immersive and interactive experiences without geographical limitations. It also provides a sense of personal privacy through physical separation. In this paper, we show that despite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhuolin Yang , Zain Sarwar , Iris Hwang , Ronik Bhaskar , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Malicious peripherals designed to attack their host computers are a growing problem. Inexpensive and powerful peripherals that attach to plug-and-play buses have made such attacks easy to mount. Making matters worse, commodity operating…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Sebastian Angel , Riad S. Wahby , Max Howald , Joshua B. Leners , Michael Spilo , Zhen Sun , Andrew J. Blumberg , Michael Walfish

Cache side-channel attacks extract secrets by examining how victim software accesses cache. To date, practical attacks on cryptosystems and media libraries are demonstrated under different scenarios, inferring secret keys and reconstructing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yuanyuan Yuan , Zhibo Liu , Shuai Wang

Out-of-system (OoS) interference is a potential limitation for distributed networks that operate in unlicensed spectrum or in a spectrum sharing scenario. The OoS interference differs from the in-system interference in that OoS signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zakir Hussain Shaik , Erik G. Larsson

Today's virtual reality (VR) systems provide immersive interactions that seamlessly connect users with online services and one another. However, these immersive interfaces also introduce new vulnerabilities, making it easier for users to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhuolin Yang , Cathy Yuanchen Li , Arman Bhalla , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

Virtual machine images and instances (VMs) in cloud computing centres are typically designed as isolation containers for applications, databases and networking functions. In order to build complex distributed applications, multiple virtual…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-24 Josef Spillner , Andrii Chaichenko , Andrey Brito , Francisco Brasileiro , Alexander Schill

Security can be seen as an optimisation objective in NoC resource management, and as such poses trade-offs against other objectives such as real-time schedulability. In this paper, we show how to increase NoC resilience against a concrete…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Leandro Soares Indrusiak , James Harbin , Martha Johanna Sepulveda

We perform the first analysis of methodologies for launching DNS cache poisoning: manipulation at the IP layer, hijack of the inter-domain routing and probing open ports via side channels. We evaluate these methodologies against DNS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Tianxiang Dai , Philipp Jeitner , Haya Shulman , Michael Waidner

Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) use sensors and wireless communication to improve road safety and efficiency. However, attackers may target Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication. Indeed, an attacker may send…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Jean-Philippe Monteuuis , Jonathan Petit , Mohammad Raashid Ansari , Cong Chen , Seung Yang

Widely deployed wireless network devices use a shared medium to communicate among mobile nodes. WLAN uses virtual carrier sensing mechanism to solve issues like hidden node problem, while this mechanism is vulnerable to DOS attacks e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Tauseef Jamal , Muhammad Mussadiq Umair , M. Alam

Voice Recognition Systems (VRSs) employ deep learning for speech recognition and speaker recognition. They have been widely deployed in various real-world applications, from intelligent voice assistance to telephony surveillance and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Baochen Yan , Jiahe Lan , Zheng Yan

Integrity is critical for maintaining system security, as it ensures that only genuine software is loaded onto a machine. Although confidential virtual machines (CVMs) function within isolated environments separate from the host, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Wenhao Wang , Linke Song , Benshan Mei , Shuang Liu , Shijun Zhao , Shoumeng Yan , XiaoFeng Wang , Dan Meng , Rui Hou

The last level cache is vulnerable to timing based side channel attacks because it is shared by the attacker and the victim processes even if they are located on different cores. These timing attacks evict the victim cache lines using small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Kartik Ramkrishnan , Antonia Zhai , Stephen McCamant , Pen Chung Yew

Modern virtualized service infrastructures expose attack vectors that enable attacks of high severity, such as attacks targeting hypervisors. A malicious user of a guest VM (virtual machine) may execute an attack against the underlying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Aleksandar Milenkoski , Marco Vieira , Bryan D. Payne , Nuno Antunes , Samuel Kounev

Being a crucial part of networked systems, packet classification has to be highly efficient; however, software switches in cloud environments still face performance challenges. The recently proposed Tuple Space Explosion (TSE) attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Levente Csikor , Vipul Ujawane , Dinil Mon Divakaran

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of mobile nodes that can communicate with each other using multihop wireless links without requiring any fixed based-station infrastructure and centralized management. Each node in the network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Akshai Aggarwal , Savita Gandhi , Nirbhay Chaubey , Pathik Shah , Madhvi Sadhwani

In today's enterprise environment, traditional access methods such as Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and application-specific Single Sign-On (SSO) often fall short when it comes to securely scaling access for a distributed and dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Sanjay Singh , Mitendra Mahto

Most electronic devices utilize mechanical keyboards to receive inputs, including sensitive information such as authentication credentials, personal and private data, emails, plans, etc. However, these systems are susceptible to acoustic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alireza Taheritajar , Zahra Mahmoudpour Harris , Reza Rahaeimehr

VANET security introduces significant processing overhead for resource-constrained On-Board Units (OBUs). Here, we propose a novel scheme that allows secure Vehicular Communication (VC) systems to scale well beyond network densities for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

In this paper, we present NetSpectre, a generic remote Spectre variant 1 attack. For this purpose, we demonstrate the first access-driven remote Evict+Reload cache attack over network, leaking 15 bits per hour. Beyond retrofitting existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Michael Schwarz , Martin Schwarzl , Moritz Lipp , Daniel Gruss