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The arrival of large language models (LLMs) capable of multi-step reasoning, tool use, and long-horizon planning has produced a qualitative shift in software engineering. Where earlier code-completion tools such as GitHub Copilot operated…

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Modern software systems rely on mining insights from business sensitive data stored in public clouds. A data breach usually incurs significant (monetary) loss for a commercial organization. Conceptually, cloud security heavily relies on…

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Vulnerability prediction is valuable in identifying security issues efficiently, even though it requires the source code of the target software system, which is a restrictive hypothesis. This paper presents an experimental study to predict…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 D. Cotroneo , F. C. Grasso , R. Natella , V. Orbinato

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for high-stakes decisions, yet their susceptibility to spurious features remains poorly characterized. We introduce ICE-Guard, a framework applying intervention consistency testing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Abhinaba Basu , Pavan Chakraborty

Automated Code Review (ACR) systems integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in software development workflows, ranging from interactive assistants to autonomous agents in CI/CD pipelines. In this paper, we study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Dimitris Mitropoulos , Nikolaos Alexopoulos , Georgios Alexopoulos , Diomidis Spinellis

Agentic systems involved in high-stake decision-making under adversarial pressure need formal guarantees not offered by existing approaches. Motivated by the operational needs of security operations centers (SOCs) that must configure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kerri Prinos , Lilianne Brush , Cameron Denton , Zhanqi Wang , Joshua Knox , Snehal Antani , Anton Foltz , Amy Villaseñor

Vision-language model (VLM)-based web agents increasingly power high-stakes selection tasks like content recommendation or product ranking by combining multimodal perception with preference reasoning. Recent studies reveal that these agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tanqiu Jiang , Min Bai , Nikolaos Pappas , Yanjun Qi , Sandesh Swamy

Software developers frequently receive vulnerability reports that require them to reproduce the vulnerability in a reliable manner by generating a proof-of-concept (PoC) input that triggers it. Given the source code for a software project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Achintya Desai , Md Shafiuzzaman , Wenbo Guo , Tevfik Bultan

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have brought remarkable progress in code understanding and reasoning, creating new opportunities and raising new concerns for software security. Among many downstream tasks, generating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mengyao Zhao , Kaixuan Li , Lyuye Zhang , Wenjing Dang , Chenggong Ding , Sen Chen , Zheli Liu

We introduce the Lossy Implicit Network Activation Coding (LINAC) defence, an input transformation which successfully hinders several common adversarial attacks on CIFAR-$10$ classifiers for perturbations up to $\epsilon = 8/255$ in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Andrei A. Rusu , Dan A. Calian , Sven Gowal , Raia Hadsell

The stability of Internet services is persistently challenged by large volumetric TCP SYN floods, for which conventional defenses such as SYN Cookies preserve server state but still amplify bandwidth pressure. This paper presents SDN-SYN…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Wenyang Jia , Jingjing Wang , Xianneng Zou , Kai Lei

We propose VulnLLM-R, the~\emph{first specialized reasoning LLM} for vulnerability detection. Our key insight is that LLMs can reason about program states and analyze the potential vulnerabilities, rather than simple pattern matching. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuzhou Nie , Hongwei Li , Chengquan Guo , Ruizhe Jiang , Zhun Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song , Wenbo Guo

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems aggregate log data from heterogeneous sources to detect coordinated attacks. Traditional rule-based correlation engines struggle to classify multi-step web application attacks because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Badr Alboushy , Assef Jafar , Mohamad Aljnidi , Mohamad Bashar Disoki , Aref Shaheed

Go's adoption in critical infrastructure intensifies the need for systematic vulnerability detection, yet existing symbolic execution tools struggle with Go binaries due to runtime complexity and scalability challenges. In this work, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Karolina Gorna , Nicolas Iooss , Yannick Seurin , Rida Khatoun

Despite their remarkable success, large language models (LLMs) have shown limited ability on safety-critical code tasks such as vulnerability detection. Typically, static analysis (SA) tools, like CodeQL, CodeGuru Security, etc., are used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Ira Ceka , Feitong Qiao , Anik Dey , Aastha Valecha , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

This paper presents a system combining symbolic execution (KLEE) with a 4-agent multi-LLM architecture for detecting memory vulnerabilities in Rust unsafe code. A central challenge we address is the incomplete-code problem: CVE database…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyad Abdelrazek , Young Lee

Malware authors commonly use obfuscation to hide API identities in binary files, making analysis difficult and time-consuming for a human expert to understand the behavior and intent of the program. Automatic API prediction tools are…

Integrity checking is ubiquitous in data networks, but not all network traffic needs integrity protection. Many applications can tolerate slightly damaged data while still working acceptably, trading accuracy versus efficiency to save time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Benjamin Ransford , Luis Ceze

Agentic AI systems can plan, call tools, inspect code, interact with web applications, and coordinate multi-step workflows. These same capabilities change the economics of cyber offense. The central near-term risk is not that every…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Christopher Koch

Vulnerability detection tools are widely adopted in software projects, yet they often overwhelm maintainers with false positives and non-actionable reports. Automated exploitation systems can help validate these reports; however, existing…

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