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A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Exploit and Security Test Generation
Quang-Cuong Bui, Emanuele Iannone, Maria Camporese +7
The exploit or the Proof of Concept of the vulnerability plays an important role in developing superior vulnerability repair techniques, as it can be used as an oracle to verify th…
A Taxonomy of Functional Security Features and How They Can Be Located
Kevin Hermann, Simon Schneider, Catherine Tony +6
Security must be considered in almost every software system. Unfortunately, selecting and implementing security features remains challenging due to the variety of security threats…
Prompting Techniques for Secure Code Generation: A Systematic Investigation
Catherine Tony, Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra, Markus Mutas +2
Large Language Models (LLMs) are gaining momentum in software development with prompt-driven programming enabling developers to create code from natural language (NL) instructions.…
LLMSecEval: A Dataset of Natural Language Prompts for Security Evaluations
Catherine Tony, Markus Mutas, Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) like Codex are powerful tools for performing code completion and code generation tasks as they are trained on billions of lines of code from publicly a…
Regret, Delete, (Do Not) Repeat: An Analysis of Self-Cleaning Practices on Twitter After the Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra, Gautam Kishore Shahi, Catherine Tony +2
During the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people shared their symptoms across Online Social Networks (OSNs) like Twitter, hoping for others' advice or moral support. Prior…
GitHub Considered Harmful? Analyzing Open-Source Projects for the Automatic Generation of Cryptographic API Call Sequences
Catherine Tony, Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra, Riccardo Scandariato
GitHub is a popular data repository for code examples. It is being continuously used to train several AI-based tools to automatically generate code. However, the effectiveness of s…
Conversational DevBots for Secure Programming: An Empirical Study on SKF Chatbot
Catherine Tony, Mohana Balasubramanian, Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra +1
Conversational agents or chatbots are widely investigated and used across different fields including healthcare, education, and marketing. Still, the development of chatbots for as…