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A Lightweight Federated Learning Approach for Privacy-Preserving Botnet Detection in IoT

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things IoT has expanded opportunities for innovation but also increased exposure to botnet-driven cyberattacks. Conventional detection methods often struggle with scalability, privacy, and adaptability in resource-constrained IoT environments. To address these...

The Impact of Audio Watermarking on Audio Anti-Spoofing Countermeasures

This paper presents the first study on the impact of audio watermarking on spoofing countermeasures. While anti-spoofing systems are essential for securing speech-based applications, the influence of widely used audio watermarking, originally designed for copyright protection, remains largely...

Hybrid Deep Learning-Federated Learning Powered Intrusion Detection System for IoT/5G Advanced Edge Computing Network

The exponential expansion of IoT and 5G-Advanced applications has enlarged the attack surface for DDoS, malware, and zero-day intrusions. We propose an intrusion detection system that fuses a convolutional neural network CNN, a bidirectional LSTM BiLSTM, and an autoencoder AE bottleneck within a...

Efficient Decoding Methods for Language Models on Encrypted Data

Large language models LLMs power modern AI applications, but processing sensitive data on untrusted servers raises privacy concerns. Homomorphic encryption HE enables computation on encrypted data for secure inference. However, neural text generation requires decoding methods like argmax and...

Constructing a Photonic Implementation of Quantum Key Distribution

Quantum Key Distribution QKD stands as a revolutionary approach to secure communication, using the principles of quantum mechanics to establish unbreakable channels. Unlike traditional cryptography, which relies on the computational difficulty of mathematical problems, QKD utilizes the inherent...

Ransomware Negotiation: Dynamics and Privacy-Preserving Mechanism Design

Ransomware attacks have become a pervasive and costly form of cybercrime, causing tens of millions of dollars in losses as organizations increasingly pay ransoms to mitigate operational disruptions and financial risks. While prior research has largely focused on proactive defenses, the...

PP-STAT: an Efficient Privacy-Preserving Statistical Analysis Framework Using Homomorphic Encryption

With the widespread adoption of cloud computing, the need for outsourcing statistical analysis to third-party platforms is growing rapidly. However, handling sensitive data such as medical records and financial information in cloud environments raises serious privacy concerns. In this paper, we...

Activate Me!: Designing Efficient Activation Functions for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning with Fully Homomorphic Encryption

The growing adoption of machine learning in sensitive areas such as healthcare and defense introduces significant privacy and security challenges. These domains demand robust data protection, as models depend on large volumes of sensitive information for both training and inference. Fully...

RL-MoE: an Image-Based Privacy Preserving Approach in Intelligent Transportation System

The proliferation of AI-powered cameras in Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS creates a severe conflict between the need for rich visual data and the fundamental right to privacy. Existing privacy-preserving mechanisms, such as blurring or encryption, are often insufficient, creating an...

SenseCrypt: Sensitivity-Guided Selective Homomorphic Encryption for Joint Federated Learning in Cross-Device Scenarios

Homomorphic Encryption HE prevails in securing Federated Learning FL, but suffers from high overhead and adaptation cost. Selective HE methods, which partially encrypt model parameters by a global mask, are expected to protect privacy with reduced overhead and easy adaptation. However, in...

Experimental Evaluation of Post-Quantum Homomorphic Encryption for Privacy-Preserving V2X Communication

Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS fundamentally rely on vehicle-generated data for applications such as congestion monitoring and route optimization, making the preservation of user privacy a critical challenge. Homomorphic Encryption HE offers a promising solution by enabling computation on...

Privacy-Preserving Anonymization of System and Network Event Logs Using Salt-Based Hashing and Temporal Noise

System and network event logs are essential for security analytics, threat detection, and operational monitoring. However, these logs often contain Personally Identifiable Information PII, raising significant privacy concerns when shared or analyzed. A key challenge in log anonymization is...

Learning-Based Privacy-Preserving Graph Publishing against Sensitive Link Inference Attacks

Publishing graph data is widely desired to enable a variety of structural analyses and downstream tasks. However, it also potentially poses severe privacy leakage, as attackers may leverage the released graph data to launch attacks and precisely infer private information such as the existence of...

DP2Guard: a Lightweight and Byzantine-Robust Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Scheme for Industrial IoT

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning PPFL has emerged as a secure distributed Machine Learning ML paradigm that aggregates locally trained gradients without exposing raw data. To defend against model poisoning threats, several robustness-enhanced PPFL schemes have been proposed by integrating...

A Review of Privacy Metrics for Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Data Generation

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation PP-SDG has emerged to produce synthetic datasets from personal data while maintaining privacy and utility. Differential privacy DP is the property of a PP-SDG mechanism that establishes how protected individuals are when sharing their sensitive data. I...

Differentially Private Federated Low Rank Adaptation beyond Fixed-Matrix

Large language models LLMs typically require fine-tuning for domain-specific tasks, and LoRA offers a computationally efficient approach by training low-rank adapters. LoRA is also communication-efficient for federated LLMs when multiple users collaboratively fine-tune a global LLM model without...

Towards Privacy-Preserving and Personalized Smart Homes Via Tailored Small Language Models

Large Language Models LLMs have showcased remarkable generalizability in language comprehension and hold significant potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction in smart homes. Existing LLM-based smart home assistants typically transmit user commands, along with user profiles and home...

FedP3E: Privacy-Preserving Prototype Exchange for Non-IID IoT Malware Detection in Cross-Silo Federated Learning

As IoT ecosystems continue to expand across critical sectors, they have become prominent targets for increasingly sophisticated and large-scale malware attacks. The evolving threat landscape, combined with the sensitive nature of IoT-generated data, demands detection frameworks that are both...

PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing

In distributed networks, participants often face diverse and fast-evolving cyberattacks. This makes techniques based on Federated Learning FL a promising mitigation strategy. By only exchanging model updates, FL participants can collaboratively build detection models without revealing sensitive...