7 papers
Lessons from the Adoption and Deprecation of the Privacy Sandbox Web APIs
Yohan Beugin, Paul Barford, Patrick McDaniel
While several web actors have been trying to reduce web tracking for years, it remains unclear how to achieve both desirable levels of utility and privacy. In 2019, Google launched…
Longitudinal Analyses of SAST Tools: A CodeQL Case Study
Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Kyle Domico, Yohan Beugin +1
Open-source software (OSS) pipelines rely on automated static analysis tools to prevent the introduction of vulnerabilities in code. However, there is limited understanding of the…
Targeting Alignment: Extracting Safety Classifiers of Aligned LLMs
Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Yohan Beugin, Eric Pauley +2
Alignment in large language models (LLMs) is used to enforce guidelines such as safety. Yet, alignment fails in the face of jailbreak attacks that modify inputs to induce unsafe ou…
LibIHT: A Hardware-Based Approach to Efficient and Evasion-Resistant Dynamic Binary Analysis
Changyu Zhao, Yohan Beugin, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand +3
Dynamic program analysis is invaluable for malware detection, debugging, and performance profiling. However, software-based instrumentation incurs high overhead and can be evaded b…
On the Robustness Tradeoff in Fine-Tuning
Kunyang Li, Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand, Ryan Sheatsley +4
Fine-tuning has become the standard practice for adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks. However, the impact on model robustness is not well understood. In this work, we c…
SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking
Yash Vekaria, Yohan Beugin, Shaoor Munir +11
Web tracking is a pervasive and opaque practice that enables personalized advertising, retargeting, and conversion tracking. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated and inva…