Nikhil Gupta, Fei Chen,Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos and Michail Maniatakos As additive manufacturing (AM) becomes more pervasive, its supply chains shift towards distributed business models that heavily rely on cloud resources. Despite its countless benefits, this paradigm raises significant concerns about the trustworthiness of the globalized process, as there exist several classes of cybersecurity attacks that...
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Security as a Service for Cloud-Enabled Internet of Controlled Things under Advanced Persistent Threats: A Contract Design Approach
Juntao Chen and Quanyan Zhu In this paper, we aim to establish a holistic framework that integrates the cyber-physical layers of a cloud-enabled Internet of Controlled Things (IoCT) through the lens of contract theory. At the physical layer, the device uses cloud services to operate the system. The quality of cloud services is unknown to...
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Software Protecting Future Cars Starts To Make Inroads
Uptane, the cyber security software developed by New York University, Southwest Research Institute, and the University of Michigan, is making inroads into the global automotive supply chain. Last week, the German company Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS) said it integrated Uptane into its connected-car products. … NYU [Tandon School of Engineering]’s Justin Cappos runs the project,...
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TTLock: Tenacious and traceless logic locking
Muhammad Yasin, Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, Jeyavijayan J V Rajendran and Ozgur Sinanoglu Logic locking is an intellectual property (IP) protection technique that prevents IP piracy, reverse engineering and overbuilding attacks by the untrusted foundry or endusers. Existing logic locking techniques are all vulnerable to various attacks, such as sensitization, key-pruning and signal skew analysis enabled removal...
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On Mitigation of Side-Channel Attacks in 3D ICs: Decorrelating Thermal Patterns from Power and Activity
Johann Knechtel and Ozgur Sinanoglu Various side-channel attacks (SCAs) on ICs have been successfully demonstrated and also mitigated to some degree. In the context of 3D ICs, however, prior art has mainly focused on efficient implementations of classical SCA countermeasures. That is, SCAs tailored for up-and-coming 3D ICs have been overlooked so far. In this...
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Distributed Transfer Linear Support Vector Machines
Rui Zhang and Quanyan Zhu Transfer learning has been developed to improve the performances of different but related tasks in machine learning. However, such processes become less efficient with the increase of the size of training data and the number of tasks. Moreover, privacy can be violated as some tasks may contain sensitive and private...
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ATS Is Integrating The Uptane Security Framework For Over-the-air Software Updates To Connected Vehicles
Features Prof. Justin Cappos ATS Advanced Telematic Systems is the first European company integrating the Uptane security framework into its OTA solutions: OTA Plus and ATS Garage. Uptane is a joint research initiative between NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, the Southwest Research Institute, and the University of Michigan Transport Research Center, working to develop a...
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A Mean-Field Stackelberg Game Approach for Obfuscation Adoption in Empirical Risk Minimization
Jeffrey Pawlick and Quanyan Zhu Data ecosystems are becoming larger and more complex due to online tracking, wearable computing, and the Internet of Things. But privacy concerns are threatening to erode the potential benefits of these systems. Recently, users have developed obfuscation techniques that issue fake search engine queries, undermine location tracking algorithms, or evade...
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Following the Money Hobbled vDOS Attack-for-Hire Service
A new report proves the value of following the money in the fight against dodgy cybercrime services known as “booters” or “stressers” — virtual hired muscle that can be rented to knock nearly any website offline. … The researchers posed as buyers of nearly two dozen booter services — including vDOS — in a bid...
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Higher Ed Stepping in to Fill Cybersecurity Gaps
In recent weeks, a pervasive ransomware attack affected systems throughout the world, causing chaos in National Health System hospitals in Great Britain and continuing to cripple hundreds of thousands of computers… The uptick in interest is a far cry from when Nasir Memon, a professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and the founder...