6 papers
Faults That Fortify: CNN Adversarial Robustness via GPU Undervolting
Behnam Omidi, Ahmad Tahmasivand, Husam Alsyouri +4
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) face a dual challenge: vulnerability to adversarial attacks and prohibitive training cost. Adversarial training is effective but expensive, a b…
Kumo: A Security-Focused Serverless Cloud Simulator
Wei Shao, Khaled Khasawneh, Setareh Rafatirad +2
Serverless computing abstracts infrastructure management but also obscures system-level behaviors that can introduce security risks. Prior work has shown that serverless platforms…
SalamahBench: Toward Standardized Safety Evaluation for Arabic Language Models
Omar Abdelnasser, Fatemah Alharbi, Khaled Khasawneh +2
Safety alignment in Language Models (LMs) is fundamental for trustworthy AI. However, while different stakeholders are trying to leverage Arabic Language Models (ALMs), systematic…
Bit of a Close Talker: A Practical Guide to Serverless Cloud Co-Location Attacks
Wei Shao, Najmeh Nazari, Behnam Omidi +4
Serverless computing has revolutionized cloud computing by offering users an efficient, cost-effective way to develop and deploy applications without managing infrastructure detail…
On Jailbreaking Quantized Language Models Through Fault Injection Attacks
Noureldin Zahran, Ahmad Tahmasivand, Ihsen Alouani +2
The safety alignment of Language Models (LMs) is a critical concern, yet their integrity can be challenged by direct parameter manipulation attacks, such as those potentially induc…
Swipe2Pair: Secure and Fast In-Band Wireless Device Pairing
Yaqi He, Kai Zeng, Long Jiao +2
Wireless device pairing is a critical security mechanism to bootstrap the secure communication between two devices without a pre-shared secret. It has been widely used in many Inte…