Exploiting Efficiency Vulnerabilities in Dynamic Deep Learning Systems

The growing deployment of deep learning models in real-world environments has intensified the need for efficient inference under strict latency and resource constraints. To meet these demands, dynamic deep learning systems DDLSs have emerged, offering input-adaptive computation to optimize runtim...

Efficient Retail Video Annotation: a Robust Key Frame Generation Approach for Product and Customer Interaction Analysis

Accurate video annotation plays a vital role in modern retail applications, including customer behavior analysis, product interaction detection, and in-store activity recognition. However, conventional annotation methods heavily rely on time-consuming manual labeling by human annotators,...

Human-Centred AI in FinTech: Developing a User Experience (UX) Research Point of View (PoV) Playbook

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence AI have significantly transformed the financial industry, enabling the development of more personalized and adaptable financial products and services. This research paper explores various instances where Human-Centred AI HCAI has facilitated these...

Systems-Theoretic and Data-Driven Security Analysis in ML-enabled Medical Devices

The integration of AI/ML into medical devices is rapidly transforming healthcare by enhancing diagnostic and treatment facilities. However, this advancement also introduces serious cybersecurity risks due to the use of complex and often opaque models, extensive interconnectivity, interoperability...

Offensive Robot Cybersecurity

Offensive Robot Cybersecurity introduces a groundbreaking approach by advocating for offensive security methods empowered by means of automation. It emphasizes the necessity of understanding attackers' tactics and identifying vulnerabilities in advance to develop effective defenses, thereby...

AdRo-FL: Informed and Secure Client Selection for Federated Learning in the Presence of Adversarial Aggregator

Whitepaper called AdRo-FL: Informed And Secure Client Selection For Federated Learning In The Presence Of Adversarial Aggregator...

Secure Time-Modulated Intelligent Reflecting Surface via Generative Flow Networks

We propose a novel directional modulation DM design for OFDM transmitters aided by a time-modulated intelligent reflecting surface TM-IRS. The TM-IRS is configured to preserve the integrity of transmitted signals toward multiple legitimate users while scrambling the signal in all other directions...

A Comprehensive Survey on Underwater Acoustic Target Positioning and Tracking: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

Underwater target tracking technology plays a pivotal role in marine resource exploration, environmental monitoring, and national defense security. Given that acoustic waves represent an effective medium for long-distance transmission in aquatic environments, underwater acoustic target tracking h...

A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset

We investigate the contents of web-scraped data for training AI systems, at sizes where human dataset curators and compilers no longer manually annotate every sample. Building off of prior privacy concerns in machine learning models, we ask: What are the legal privacy implications of web-scraped...

EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing

Code editing is a foundational task in software development, where its effectiveness depends on whether it introduces desired code property changes without changing the original code's intended functionality. Existing approaches often formulate code editing as an implicit end-to-end task, omittin...

VReaves: Eavesdropping on Virtual Reality App Identity and Activity Via Electromagnetic Side Channels

Virtual reality VR has recently proliferated significantly, consisting of headsets or head-mounted displays HMDs and hand controllers for an embodied and immersive experience. The VR device is usually embedded with different kinds of IoT sensors, such as cameras, microphones, communication sensor...

Black-Box Privacy Attacks on Shared Representations in Multitask Learning

Multitask learning MTL has emerged as a powerful paradigm that leverages similarities among multiple learning tasks, each with insufficient samples to train a standalone model, to solve them simultaneously while minimizing data sharing across users and organizations. MTL typically accomplishes th...

SecureFed: a Two-Phase Framework for Detecting Malicious Clients in Federated Learning

Federated Learning FL protects data privacy while providing a decentralized method for training models. However, because of the distributed schema, it is susceptible to adversarial clients that could alter results or sabotage model performance. This study presents SecureFed, a two-phase FL...

AndroIDS : Android-Based Intrusion Detection System Using Federated Learning

The exponential growth of android-based mobile IoT systems has significantly increased the susceptibility of devices to cyberattacks, particularly in smart homes, UAVs, and other connected mobile environments. This article presents a federated learning-based intrusion detection framework called...

FARFETCH'D: a Side-Channel Analysis Framework for Privacy Applications on Confidential Virtual Machines

Confidential virtual machines CVMs based on trusted execution environments TEEs enable new privacy-preserving solutions. Yet, they leave side-channel leakage outside their threat model, shifting the responsibility of mitigating such attacks to developers. However, mitigations are either not gener...

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Threat Analysis

Artificial Intelligence brings innovations into the society. However, bias and unethical exist in many algorithms that make the applications less trustworthy. Threats hunting algorithms based on machine learning have shown great advantage over classical methods. Reinforcement learning models are...

The vulnerability of the vChamilo plugin of the eLearning and content management system Chamilo LMS lies in the lack of verification of the validity of XML objects’ sequences. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries.

The vulnerability of the vChamilo plugin in the Chamilo LMS system is related to the lack of verification for the validity of XML objects’ sequences. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary SQL queries remotely...

The vulnerability of the Chamilo LMS electronic learning and content management system, related to deficiencies in the deserialization mechanism used by the operating system, allows attackers to create arbitrary classes.

The vulnerability of the Chamilo LMS, a system for electronic teaching and content management, is related to deficiencies in the deserialization mechanisms used in the operating system. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to create arbitrary classes...

The vulnerability of the OpenID authentication module of the Chamilo LMS system, related to the lack of verification of the validity of XML objects’ sequences, allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries.

The vulnerability of the OpenID authentication module in the Chamilo LMS system relates to the lack of verification of the authenticity of XML objects. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary SQL queries remotely...

The vulnerability of the Chamilo LMS electronic learning and content management system lies in the lack of measures to neutralize special elements used within the operating system, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries.

The vulnerability of the Chamilo LMS, a system for electronic teaching and content management, lies in the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to execute arbitrary SQL queries remotely...