Formulating Subgroup Discovery As a Quantum Optimization Problem for Network Security

While current network intrusion detection systems achieve satisfactory accuracy, they often lack explainability. Subgroup Discovery SD addresses this by building interpretable rules that characterize feature interactions associated with attack traffic. With large datasets, classical heuristic bea...

CVE-2026-21658

Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution i.e Improper Control of Generation of Code 'Code Injection' vulnerability in Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD allows Code Injection. Insufficient validation of input in certain parameters may permit unexpected actions, which could impact the securit...

FiD-QAE: A Fidelity-Driven Quantum Autoencoder for Credit Card Fraud Detection

Credit card fraud detection is a critical task in financial security, as fraudulent transactions are rare, highly imbalanced, and often resemble legitimate ones. A wide range of classical machine learning methods, as well as more recent quantum machine learning approaches, have been investigated ...

Hybrid Quantum Security for IPsec

Quantum Key Distribution QKD offers information-theoretic security against quantum computing threats, but integrating QKD into existing security protocols remains an unsolved challenge due to fundamental mismatches between pre-distributed quantum keys and computational key exchange paradigms. Thi...

Adversarial Threats in Quantum Machine Learning: a Survey of Attacks and Defenses

Quantum Machine Learning QML integrates quantum computing with classical machine learning, primarily to solve classification, regression and generative tasks. However, its rapid development raises critical security challenges in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum NISQ era. This chapter examines...

Q-AIM: a Unified Portable Workflow for Seamless Integration of Quantum Resources

Quantum computing QC holds the potential to solve classically intractable problems. Although there has been significant progress towards the availability of quantum hardware, a software infrastructure to integrate them is still missing. We present Q-AIM Quantum Access Infrastructure Management to...

Forensics of Error Rates of Quantum Hardware

There has been a rise in third-party cloud providers offering quantum hardware as a service to improve performance at lower cost. Although these providers provide flexibility to the users to choose from several qubit technologies, quantum hardware, and coupling maps; the actual execution of the...