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Security and Quality in LLM-Generated Code: A Multi-Language, Multi-Model Analysis
Mohammed Kharma, Soohyeon Choi, Mohammed AlKhanafseh +1
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven code generation tools are increasingly used throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding tasks. However, the security of A…
I Can Find You in Seconds! Leveraging Large Language Models for Code Authorship Attribution
Soohyeon Choi, Yong Kiam Tan, Mark Huasong Meng +4
Source code authorship attribution is important in software forensics, plagiarism detection, and protecting software patch integrity. Existing techniques often rely on supervised m…
Untargeted Code Authorship Evasion with Seq2Seq Transformation
Soohyeon Choi, Rhongho Jang, DaeHun Nyang +1
Code authorship attribution is the problem of identifying authors of programming language codes through the stylistic features in their codes, a topic that recently witnessed signi…
The Infrastructure Utilization of Free Contents Websites Reveal their Security Characteristics
Mohamed Alqadhi, David Mohaisen
Free Content Websites (FCWs) are a significant element of the Web, and realizing their use is essential. This study analyzes FCWs worldwide by studying how they correlate with diff…
Burning the Adversarial Bridges: Robust Windows Malware Detection Against Binary-level Mutations
Ahmed Abusnaina, Yizhen Wang, Sunpreet Arora +3
Toward robust malware detection, we explore the attack surface of existing malware detection systems. We conduct root-cause analyses of the practical binary-level black-box adversa…
Understanding the Country-Level Security of Free Content Websites and their Hosting Infrastructure
Mohammed Alqadhi, Ali Alkinoon, Saeed Salem +1
This paper examines free content websites (FCWs) and premium content websites (PCWs) in different countries, comparing them to general websites. The focus is on the distribution of…
Measuring and Modeling the Free Content Web
Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar, Runyu Ma, Ahmed Abusnaina +4
Free content websites that provide free books, music, games, movies, etc., have existed on the Internet for many years. While it is a common belief that such websites might be diff…
Understanding the Security and Performance of the Web Presence of Hospitals: A Measurement Study
Mohammed Alkinoon, Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar, Hattan Althebeiti +3
Using a total of 4,774 hospitals categorized as government, non-profit, and proprietary hospitals, this study provides the first measurement-based analysis of hospitals' websites a…
SHIELD: Thwarting Code Authorship Attribution
Mohammed Abuhamad, Changhun Jung, David Mohaisen +1
Authorship attribution has become increasingly accurate, posing a serious privacy risk for programmers who wish to remain anonymous. In this paper, we introduce SHIELD to examine t…
Analyzing In-browser Cryptojacking
Muhammad Saad, David Mohaisen
Cryptojacking is the permissionless use of a target device to covertly mine cryptocurrencies. With cryptojacking, attackers use malicious JavaScript codes to force web browsers int…
Learning Location from Shared Elevation Profiles in Fitness Apps: A Privacy Perspective
Ulku Meteriz-Yildiran, Necip Fazil Yildiran, Joongheon Kim +1
The extensive use of smartphones and wearable devices has facilitated many useful applications. For example, with Global Positioning System (GPS)-equipped smart and wearable device…
Do Content Management Systems Impact the Security of Free Content Websites? A Correlation Analysis
Mohammed Alaqdhi, Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar, Kyle Thomas +3
This paper investigates the potential causes of the vulnerabilities of free content websites to address risks and maliciousness. Assembling more than 1,500 websites with free and p…
Enriching Vulnerability Reports Through Automated and Augmented Description Summarization
Hattan Althebeiti, David Mohaisen
Security incidents and data breaches are increasing rapidly, and only a fraction of them is being reported. Public vulnerability databases, e.g., national vulnerability database (N…
Self-Configurable Stabilized Real-Time Detection Learning for Autonomous Driving Applications
Won Joon Yun, Soohyun Park, Joongheon Kim +1
Guaranteeing real-time and accurate object detection simultaneously is paramount in autonomous driving environments. However, the existing object detection neural network systems a…
FAT-PIM: Low-Cost Error Detection for Processing-In-Memory
Kazi Abu Zubair, Sumit Kumar Jha, David Mohaisen +2
Processing In Memory (PIM) accelerators are promising architecture that can provide massive parallelization and high efficiency in various applications. Such architectures can inst…
Cooperative Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reliable Surveillance via Autonomous Multi-UAV Control
Won Joon Yun, Soohyun Park, Joongheon Kim +4
CCTV-based surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is considered a key technology for security in smart city environments. This paper creates a case where the UAVs with…
Robust Natural Language Processing: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions
Marwan Omar, Soohyeon Choi, DaeHun Nyang +1
Recent natural language processing (NLP) techniques have accomplished high performance on benchmark datasets, primarily due to the significant improvement in the performance of dee…
Count-Less: A Counting Sketch for the Data Plane of High Speed Switches
SunYoung Kim, Changhun Jung, RhongHo Jang +2
Demands are increasing to measure per-flow statistics in the data plane of high-speed switches. Measuring flows with exact counting is infeasible due to processing and memory const…
ML-based IoT Malware Detection Under Adversarial Settings: A Systematic Evaluation
Ahmed Abusnaina, Afsah Anwar, Sultan Alshamrani +4
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices is paralleled by them being on the front-line of malicious attacks. This has led to an explosion in the number of IoT malwa…
ShellCore: Automating Malicious IoT Software Detection by Using Shell Commands Representation
Hisham Alasmary, Afsah Anwar, Ahmed Abusnaina +6
The Linux shell is a command-line interpreter that provides users with a command interface to the operating system, allowing them to perform a variety of functions. Although very u…
Understanding Internet of Things Malware by Analyzing Endpoints in their Static Artifacts
Afsah Anwar, Jinchun Choi, Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar +7
The lack of security measures among the Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their persistent online connection gives adversaries a prime opportunity to target them or even abuse t…
Hate, Obscenity, and Insults: Measuring the Exposure of Children to Inappropriate Comments in YouTube
Sultan Alshamrani, Ahmed Abusnaina, Mohammed Abuhamad +2
Social media has become an essential part of the daily routines of children and adolescents. Moreover, enormous efforts have been made to ensure the psychological and emotional wel…
e-PoS: Making Proof-of-Stake Decentralized and Fair
Muhammad Saad, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren +2
Blockchain applications that rely on the Proof-of-Work (PoW) have increasingly become energy inefficient with a staggering carbon footprint. In contrast, energy-efficient alternati…
Reinforced Edge Selection using Deep Learning for Robust Surveillance in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Soohyun Park, Jeman Park, David Mohaisen +1
In this paper, we propose a novel deep Q-network (DQN)-based edge selection algorithm designed specifically for real-time surveillance in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. Th…