K000152032: GRUB2 vulnerability CVE-2025-0678

Security Advisory Description A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a squash4 filesystem, grub's squash4 fs module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciously...

Secure Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Application to Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

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Design High-Confidence Computers Using Trusted Instructional Set Architecture and Emulators

High-confidence computing relies on trusted instructional set architecture, sealed kernels, and secure operating systems. Cloud computing depends on trusted systems for virtualization tasks. Branch predictions and pipelines are essential in improving performance of a CPU/GPU. But Spectre and...

Technical Evaluation of a Disruptive Approach in Homomorphic AI

We present a technical evaluation of a new, disruptive cryptographic approach to data security, known as HbHAI Hash-based Homomorphic Artificial Intelligence. HbHAI is based on a novel class of key-dependent hash functions that naturally preserve most similarity properties, most AI algorithms rel...

SecONNds: Secure Outsourced Neural Network Inference on ImageNet

The widespread adoption of outsourced neural network inference presents significant privacy challenges, as sensitive user data is processed on untrusted remote servers. Secure inference offers a privacy-preserving solution, but existing frameworks suffer from high computational overhead and...

DinoCompanion: an Attachment-Theory Informed Multimodal Robot for Emotionally Responsive Child-AI Interaction

Children's emotional development fundamentally relies on secure attachment relationships, yet current AI companions lack the theoretical foundation to provide developmentally appropriate emotional support. We introduce DinoCompanion, the first attachment-theory-grounded multimodal robot for...

Differential Privacy in Machine Learning: from Symbolic AI to LLMs

Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data point does not significantly alter the output of an algorith...

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery

The Secure Scientific Service Mesh S3M provides API-driven infrastructure to accelerate scientific discovery through automated research workflows. By integrating near real-time streaming capabilities, intelligent workflow orchestration, and fine-grained authorization within a service mesh...

DTHA: a Digital Twin-Assisted Handover Authentication Scheme for 5G and Beyond

With the rapid development and extensive deployment of the fifth-generation wireless system 5G, it has achieved ubiquitous high-speed connectivity and improved overall communication performance. Additionally, as one of the promising technologies for integration beyond 5G, digital twin in cyberspa...

Secure User-Friendly Blockchain Modular Wallet Design Using Android and OP-TEE

Emerging crypto economies still hemorrhage digital assets because legacy wallets leak private keys at almost every layer of the software stack, from user-space libraries to kernel memory dumps. This paper solves that twin crisis of security and interoperability by re-imagining key management as a...

SecFwT: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models Using Forward-Only Passes

Large language models LLMs have transformed numerous fields, yet their adaptation to specialized tasks in privacy-sensitive domains, such as healthcare and finance, is constrained by the scarcity of accessible training data due to stringent privacy requirements. Secure multi-party computation...

Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees for AI Compute

As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly powerful, they pose growing risks to international security, creating urgent coordination challenges that current governance approaches struggle to address without compromising sensitive information or national security. We propose flexible...

On Secure UAV-Aided ISCC Systems

Integrated communication and sensing, which can make full use of the limited spectrum resources to perform communication and sensing tasks simultaneously, is an up-and-coming technology in wireless communication networks. In this work, we investigate the secrecy performance of an uncrewed aerial...

EVA-S2PMLP: Secure and Scalable Two-Party MLP via Spatial Transformation

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

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Agent Capability Negotiation and Binding Protocol (ACNBP)

As multi-agent systems evolve to encompass increasingly diverse and specialized agents, the challenge of enabling effective collaboration between heterogeneous agents has become paramount, with traditional agent communication protocols often assuming homogeneous environments or predefined...

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...

ReDASH: Fast and efficient Scaling in Arithmetic Garbled Circuits for Secure Outsourced Inference

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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...

OESA-2025-1665 openssh security update

OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. \ It encrypts all traffic to eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and \ other attacks. In addition, OpenSSH provides a large suite of secure tunneling \ capabilities, several authentication methods, and...