TensorShield: Safeguarding On-Device Inference by Shielding Critical DNN Tensors with TEE

To safeguard user data privacy, on-device inference has emerged as a prominent paradigm on mobile and Internet of Things IoT devices. This paradigm involves deploying a model provided by a third party on local devices to perform inference tasks. However, it exposes the private model to two primar...

DNS Query Forgery: a Client-Side Defense against Mobile App Traffic Profiling

Mobile applications continuously generate DNS queries that can reveal sensitive user behavioral patterns even when communications are encrypted. This paper presents a privacy enhancement framework based on query forgery to protect users against profiling attempts that leverage these background...

Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud

Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud...

LiteLMGuard: Seamless and Lightweight On-Device Prompt Filtering for Safeguarding Small Language Models against Quantization-Induced Risks and Vulnerabilities

The growing adoption of Large Language Models LLMs has influenced the development of their lighter counterparts-Small Language Models SLMs-to enable on-device deployment across smartphones and edge devices. These SLMs offer enhanced privacy, reduced latency, server-free functionality, and improve...

Age Verification Using Facial Scans

Discord is testing the feature: "We're currently running tests in select regions to age-gate access to certain spaces or user settings," a spokesperson for Discord said in a statement. "The information shared to power the age verification method is only used for the one-time age verification...

On-Device Watermarking: a Socio-Technical Imperative for Authenticity in the Age of Generative AI

As generative AI models produce increasingly realistic output, both academia and industry are focusing on the ability to detect whether an output was generated by an AI model or not. Many of the research efforts and policy discourse are centered around robust watermarking of AI outputs. While...

Google Rolls Out AI Scam Detection for Android to Combat Conversational Fraud

Google has announced the rollout of artificial intelligence AI-powered scam detection features to secure Android device users and their personal information. "These features specifically target conversational scams, which can often appear initially harmless before evolving into harmful situations...

AAT 信息泄露漏洞

AAT is a GPS tracking application by bailuk personal developer. It is used for tracking physical activity with a focus on cycling. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in versions prior to AAT v1.26, which stems from being susceptible to data disclosure from a malicious application...

New Android Banking Malware 'ToxicPanda' Targets Users with Fraudulent Money Transfers

Over 1,500 Android devices have been infected by a new strain of Android banking malware called ToxicPanda that allows threat actors to conduct fraudulent banking transactions. "ToxicPanda's main goal is to initiate money transfers from compromised devices via account takeover ATO using a...

goTenna Pro 安全漏洞

The goTenna Pro is a series of devices from goTenna that can create networks for off-grid communications and situational awareness. A security vulnerability exists in goTenna Pro that stems from an encryption key being stored on the device along with a static IV...

CVE-2024-20464

A vulnerability in the Protocol Independent Multicast PIM feature of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of received IPv4 PIMv2 packets. An...

New Android Banking Trojan BingoMod Steals Money, Wipes Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new Android remote access trojan RAT called BingoMod that not only performs fraudulent money transfers from the compromised devices but also wipes them in an attempt to erase traces of the malware. Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy, which discovered the...

Apple Launches Private Cloud Compute for Privacy-Centric AI Processing

Apple has announced the launch of a "groundbreaking cloud intelligence system" called Private Cloud Compute PCC that's designed for processing artificial intelligence AI tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud. The tech giant described PCC as the "most advanced security architecture eve...

Google Chrome Beta Tests New DBSC Protection Against Cookie-Stealing Attacks

Google on Tuesday said it's piloting a new feature in Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials DBSC to help protect users against session cookie theft by malware. The prototype – currently tested against "some" Google Account users running Chrome Beta – is built with an aim to make it an op...

CVE-2023-34437

Baker Hughes – Bently Nevada 3500 System TDI Firmware version 5.05 contains a vulnerability in their password retrieval functionality which could allow an attacker to access passwords stored on the device...

CVE-2023-20235

A vulnerability in the on-device application development workflow feature for the Cisco IOx application hosting infrastructure in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access the underlying operating system as the root user. This vulnerability exists because Docke...

CVE-2023-20235

A vulnerability in the on-device application development workflow feature for the Cisco IOx application hosting infrastructure in Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to access the underlying operating system as the root user. This vulnerability exists because Docke...

CVE-2023-20235

The CVE-2023-20235 issue affects Cisco IOS XE IOS IOx application hosting workflow. It arises because Docker containers using the privileged runtime option are not blocked when in development mode, enabling an authenticated, remote attacker to access the underlying operating system as root via th...

PT-2023-6047 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xe

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco IOS XE Software affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the on-device application development workflow feature for the Cisco IOx application hosting infrastructure could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to...

Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM

Instead of scanning iCloud for illegal content, Apple’s tech will locally flag inappropriate images for kids. And adults are getting an opt-in nudes filter too...