6 papers
Control-Aware Manipulation of ArduPilot via Legitimate MAVLink Commands: Simulation and Hardware Validation
Feras Benchellal andLotfi Ben Othmane, Yasaswini Konapalli, Cihan Tunc +1
This paper investigates control-aware attacks against ArduPilot-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), inwhich an adversary exploits the sensitivity of flight-controller dynamics t…
Semi-Automated Threat Modeling of Cloud-Based Systems Through Extracting Software Architecture from Configuration and Network Flow
Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Bharat Bhargava +1
Traditional threat modeling occurs during design, but cloud deployments introduce unanticipated threats, especially multi-stage attacks chaining vulnerabilities across trust bounda…
Extending Adaptive Cruise Control with Machine Learning Intrusion Detection Systems
Lotfi Ben Othmane, Yasaswini Konapalli, Naga Prudhvi Mareedu
An Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system automatically adjusts the host vehicle's speed to maintain a safe following distance from a lead vehicle. In typical implementations, a feed…
Reverse Engineering and Control-Aware Security Analysis of the ArduPilot UAV Framework
Yasaswini Konapalli, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Cihan Tunc +2
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technologies are gaining high interest for many domains, which makes UAV security of utmost importance. ArduPilot is among the most widely used open-s…
Toward Automated Security Risk Detection in Large Software Using Call Graph Analysis
Nicholas Pecka, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Renee Bryce
Threat modeling plays a critical role in the identification and mitigation of security risks; however, manual approaches are often labor intensive and prone to error. This paper in…
Comparison of Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Garbled Circuit Techniques in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Inference
Kalyan Cheerla, Lotfi Ben Othmane, Kirill Morozov
Machine Learning (ML) is making its way into fields such as healthcare, finance, and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and concerns over data privacy and model confidentiality con…