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When Your AI Becomes a Target: AI Security Incidents and Best Practices

In contrast to vast academic efforts to study AI security, few real-world reports of AI security incidents exist. Released incidents prevent a thorough investigation of the attackers' motives, as crucial information about the company and AI application is ...

AAAI Press2024

Silent Bugs Matter: A Study of Compiler-Introduced Security Bugs

Mathias Josef Payer

Compilers assure that any produced optimized code is semantically equivalent to the original code. However, even "correct" compilers may introduce security bugs as security properties go beyond translation correctness. Security bugs introduced by such corr ...

Usenix Assoc2023

Challenging the Assumptions: Rethinking Privacy, Bias, and Security in Machine Learning

Bogdan Kulynych

Predictive models based on machine learning (ML) offer a compelling promise: bringing clarity and structure to complex natural and social environments. However, the use of ML poses substantial risks related to the privacy of their training data as well as ...

EPFL2023

Security Measures for Grids Against Rank-1 Undetectable Time-Synchronization Attacks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Marguerite Marie Nathalie Delcourt

Time-synchronization attacks on phasor measurement units (PMUs) pose a real threat to smart grids; it was shown that they are feasible in practice and that they can have a nonnegligible negative impact on state estimation, without triggering the bad data d ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Electrical-Level Attacks on CPUs, FPGAs, and GPUs: Survey and Implications in the Heterogeneous Era

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

Given the need for efficient high-performance computing, computer architectures combining CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs are nowadays prevalent. However, each of these components suffers from electrical-level security risks. Moving to heterogeneous systems, with th ...

2022

Optimal Symmetric Ratcheting for Secure Communication

Serge Vaudenay, Andrea Felice Caforio, Daniel Patrick Collins, Hailun Yan

To mitigate state exposure threats to long-lived instant messaging sessions, ratcheting was introduced, which is used in practice in protocols like Signal. However, existing ratcheting protocols generally come with a high cost. Recently, Caforio et al. pro ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Toward Mobile Distributed Ledgers

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for new types of distributed applications that can be executed solely by mobile devices on Device-to-Device (D2D) ecosystems (e.g., crowdsensing). Sophisticated applications, like cryptocurrencies, need distr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

PROFACTORY: Improving IoT Security via Formalized Protocol Customization

Mathias Josef Payer

As IoT applications gain widespread adoption, it becomes important to design and implement IoT protocols with security. Existing research in protocol security reveals that the majority of disclosed protocol vulnerabilities are caused by incorrectly impleme ...

USENIX ASSOC2022

Beyond Security and Efficiency: On-Demand Ratcheting with Security Awareness

Serge Vaudenay, Andrea Felice Caforio, Fatma Betül Durak

Secure asynchronous two-party communication applies ratcheting to strengthen privacy, in the presence of internal state exposures. Security with ratcheting is provided in two forms: forward security and post-compromise security. There have been several suc ...

2021

Symmetric Asynchronous Ratcheted Communication with Associated Data

Serge Vaudenay, Hailun Yan

Following up mass surveillance and privacy issues, modern secure communication protocols now seek strong security, such as forward secrecy and post-compromise security, in the face of state exposures. To address this problem, ratcheting was thereby introdu ...

Springer, Cham2020

Security-aware Routing and Scheduling for Control Applications on Ethernet TSN Networks

Amir Aminifar

Today, it is common knowledge in the cyber-physical systems domain that the tight interaction between the cyber and physical elements provides the possibility of substantially improving the performance of these systems that is otherwise impossible. On the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

mu RAI: Securing Embedded Systems with Return Address Integrity

Mathias Josef Payer

Embedded systems are deployed in security critical environments and have become a prominent target for remote attacks. Microcontroller-based systems (MCUS) are particularly vulnerable due to a combination of limited resources and low level programming whic ...

INTERNET SOC2020

RetroWrite: Statically Instrumenting COTS Binaries for Fuzzing and Sanitization

Mathias Josef Payer

Analyzing the security of closed source binaries is currently impractical for end-users, or even developers who rely on third-party libraries. Such analysis relies on automatic vulnerability discovery techniques, most notably fuzzing with sanitizers enable ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

A Logic Synthesis Toolbox for Reducing the Multiplicative Complexity in Logic Networks

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Heinz Riener, Eleonora Testa, Luca Gaetano Amarù

Logic synthesis is a fundamental step in the realization of modern integrated circuits. It has traditionally been employed for the optimization of CMOS-based designs, as well as for emerging technologies and quantum computing. Recently, it found applicatio ...

IEEE2020

Time in cryptography

Gwangbae Choi

Time travel has always been a fascinating topic in literature and physics. In cryptography, one may wonder how to keep data confidential for some time. In this dissertation, we will study how to make private information travel to the future. This dissertat ...

EPFL2020

BenchIoT: A Security Benchmark for the Internet of Things

Mathias Josef Payer

Attacks against IoT systems are increasing at an alarming pace. Many IoT systems are and will be built using low-cost micro-controllers (IoT-pCs). Different security mechanisms have been proposed for IoT-mu Cs with different trade-offs. To guarantee a real ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Mobile Applications and Services

Thi Van Anh Pham

Over a third of the world 's population owns a smartphone. As generic computing devices that support a large and heterogeneous collection of mobile applications (apps), smartphones provide a plethora of functionalities and services to billions of users. B ...

EPFL2019

Labeled PSI from Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Malicious Security

Zhicong Huang

Private Set Intersection (PSI) allows two parties, the sender and the receiver, to compute the intersection of their private sets without revealing extra information to each other. We are interested in the unbalanced PSI setting, where (1) the receiver's s ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Wireless Communication and Security Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things

Andreas Peter Burg

Wireless sensors and actuators connected by the Internet-of-Things (IoT) are central to the design of advanced cyber-physical systems (CPSs). In such complex, heterogeneous systems, communication links must meet stringent requirements on throughput, latenc ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Oblivious Dynamic Searchable Encryption on Distributed Cloud Systems

Fatma Betül Durak

Dynamic Searchable Symmetric Encryption (DSSE) allows search/update operations over encrypted data via an encrypted index. However, DSSE has been shown to be vulnerable to statistical inference attacks, which can extract a significant amount of information ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018