Reproducing a Security Risk Assessment Using Computer Aided Design

Security risk assessment is essential in establishing the trustworthiness and reliability of modern systems. While various security risk assessment approaches exist, prevalent applications are "pen and paper" implementations that -- even if performed digitally using computers -- remain prone to...

Aspect-Oriented Programming in Secure Software Development: a Case Study of Security Aspects in Web Applications

Security remains a critical challenge in modern web applications, where threats such as unauthorized access, data breaches, and injection attacks continue to undermine trust and reliability. Traditional Object-Oriented Programming OOP often intertwines security logic with business functionality,...

Breaking SafetyCore: Exploring the Risks of On-Device AI Deployment

Due to hardware and software improvements, an increasing number of AI models are deployed on-device. This shift enhances privacy and reduces latency, but also introduces security risks distinct from traditional software. In this article, we examine these risks through the real-world case study of...

Towards Principled Analysis and Mitigation of Space Cyber Risks

Space infrastructures have become an underpinning of modern society, but their associated cyber risks are little understood. This Dissertation advances the state-of-the-art via four contributions. i It introduces an innovative framework for characterizing real-world cyber attacks against space...

False Data-Injection Attack Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems: a Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Reachability Optimization Approach

Cyber-physical system CPS is the foundational backbone of modern critical infrastructures, so ensuring its security and resilience against cyber-attacks is of pivotal importance. This paper addresses the challenge of designing anomaly detectors for CPS under false-data injection FDI attacks and...

Attack Pattern Mining to Discover Hidden Threats to Industrial Control Systems

This work focuses on validation of attack pattern mining in the context of Industrial Control System ICS security. A comprehensive security assessment of an ICS requires generating a large and variety of attack patterns. For this purpose we have proposed a data driven technique to generate attack...

PT-2025-31742 · Undefined · Undefined

🔥 Urgent Kubernetes Patch Alert! CVE-2025-02350-2 allows host-level breaches in SUSE environments. ✅ Step-by-step hardening guide + real-world case study. Read more:👉 https://t.co/6fS6OlKnna https://t.co/WvXf5cXWCi...

Secure Coding for Web Applications: Frameworks, Challenges, and the Role of LLMs

Secure coding is a critical yet often overlooked practice in software development. Despite extensive awareness efforts, real-world adoption remains inconsistent due to organizational, educational, and technical barriers. This paper provides a comprehensive review of secure coding practices across...

Cyber Security of Mega Events: a Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 -- a 45 Days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls

Mega events such as the Olympics, World Cup tournaments, G-20 Summit, religious events such as MahaKumbh are increasingly digitalized. From event ticketing, vendor booth or lodging reservations, sanitation, event scheduling, customer service, crime reporting, media streaming and messaging on...

ARPaCCino: an Agentic-RAG for Policy As Code Compliance

Policy as Code PaC is a paradigm that encodes security and compliance policies into machine-readable formats, enabling automated enforcement in Infrastructure as Code IaC environments. However, its adoption is hindered by the complexity of policy languages and the risk of misconfigurations. In th...

Towards Provable (In)Secure Model Weight Release Schemes

Recent secure weight release schemes claim to enable open-source model distribution while protecting model ownership and preventing misuse. However, these approaches lack rigorous security foundations and provide only informal security guarantees. Inspired by established works in cryptography, we...

Exploring Traffic Simulation and Cybersecurity Strategies Using Large Language Models

Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyberattacks due to their complex, interconnected nature. Ensuring the cybersecurity of these systems is paramount to maintaining road safety and minimizing traffic disruptions. This study presents a novel...

Penetration Testing for System Security: Methods and Practical Approaches

Penetration testing refers to the process of simulating hacker attacks to evaluate the security of information systems . This study aims not only to clarify the theoretical foundations of penetration testing but also to explain and demonstrate the complete testing process, including how network...

Exemplifying Emerging Phishing: QR-Based Browser-In-The-Browser (BiTB) Attack

Lately, cybercriminals constantly formulate productive approaches to exploit individuals. This article exemplifies an innovative attack, namely QR-based Browser-in-The-Browser BiTB, using proficiencies of Large Language Model LLM i.e. Google Gemini. The presented attack is a fusion of two emergin...

Modeling Interdependent Privacy Threats

The rise of online social networks, user-gene-rated content, and third-party apps made data sharing an inevitable trend, driven by both user behavior and the commercial value of personal information. As service providers amass vast amounts of data, safeguarding individual privacy has become...

New whitepaper outlines the taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents

We are releasing a taxonomy of failure modes in AI agents to help security professionals and machine learning engineers think through how AI systems can fail and design them with safety and security in mind. The taxonomy continues Microsoft AI Red Team's work to lead the creation of systematizati...

Breaking the Prompt Wall (I): a Real-World Case Study of Attacking ChatGPT Via Lightweight Prompt Injection

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USDA Releases Success Story Detailing the Implementation of Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA released Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication MFA Success Story: USDA’s FIDO Implementation. This report details how USDA successfully implemented phishing-resistant authenticatio...

CVE-2024-9850 SVG Case Study <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload

The SVG Case Study plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, t...

CVE-2024-9850 SVG Case Study <= 1.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File Upload

The SVG Case Study plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, t...