Spectre-BTB, also known as Spectre Variant 2, is often considered the most dangerous Spectre variant. While there are widely-deployed software workarounds on x86, such as Retpoline, there are no automated software workarounds for protecting generic ...

Cybersickness (CS), also known as visually induced motion sickness (VIMS), is a condition that can affect individuals when they interact with virtual reality (VR) technology. This condition is characterized by symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, headaches,...

In recommendation literature, explainability and fairness are becoming two prominent perspectives to consider. However, prior works have mostly addressed them separately, for instance by explaining to consumers why a certain item was recommended or ...

Operational networks commonly rely on machine learning models for many tasks, including detecting anomalies, inferring application performance, and forecasting demand. Yet, model accuracy can degrade due to concept drift, whereby the relationship between ...

Traditional email encryption schemes are vulnerable to EFail attacks, which exploit the lack of message authentication by manipulating ciphertexts and exfiltrating plaintext via HTML backchannels. Swiss Post's IncaMail, a secure email service for ...

We present a kernel-level infrastructure that allows systemwide detection of malicious applications attempting to exploit cache-based side-channel attacks to break the process confinement enforced by standard operating systems. This infrastructure relies ...

Social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook have connected billions of people and given the opportunity to the users to share their ideas and opinions instantly. That being said, there are several negative consequences as well such as online ...

In the early stages of a pandemic, epidemiological knowledge of the disease is limited and no vaccination is available. This poses the problem of determining an Early Mitigation Strategy. Previous studies have tackled this problem through finding ...

With the advent of Industry 4.0, industrial facilities and critical infrastructures are transforming into an ecosystem of heterogeneous physical and cyber components, such as programmable logic controllers, increasingly interconnected and therefore ...

Timing side-channels can be exploited to infer secret information when the execution time of a program is correlated with secrets. Recent work has shown that Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation can introduce new timing side-channels in programs even if ...

Machine learning models are often trained on sensitive data, such as medical records or bank transactions, posing high privacy risks. In fact, membership inference attacks can use the model parameters or predictions to determine whether a given data ...

The increasing number of attacks leads to a growing research and development interest in cybersecurity systems. As a response to the increasingly distributed nature of attacks, many organizations have demonstrated willingness to ...

Games are considered promising for engaging people with climate change. In virtual worlds, players can adopt empowering roles to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and/or adapt to climate impacts. However, the lack of a comprehensive exploration of ...

Energy saving is important for both high-end processors and battery-powered devices. However, for time-critical application such as car auto-driving systems and multimedia streaming, saving energy by slowing down speed poses a threat to timing guarantee ...

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a ...

With the wide application of high voltage/ultra-high voltage (HV/UHV) DC transmission technology, the impact of DC grounding electrode location selection on the surrounding power grid has become increasingly prominent, especially the problem of DC bias ...

The need for cyber resilience is increasingly important in our technology-dependent society, where computing systems, devices and data will continue to be the target of cyber attackers. Hence, we propose a conceptual framework called 'Human-in-the-Loop ...

Along the last decade, several studies considered green software design as a key development concern to improve the energy efficiency of software. Yet, few techniques address this concern for Software Product Lines (SPL). In this paper, we therefore ...

This document specifies the Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) signal channel, a protocol for signaling the need for protection against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks to a server capable of enabling network traffic ...

Cache-based side channel attacks pose a serious threat to computer security. Numerous cache attacks have been demonstrated, highlighting the need for effective and efficient defense mechanisms to shield systems from this threat. In this paper, we ...