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Overconfidence is a Dangerous Thing: Mitigating Membership Inference Attacks by Enforcing Less Confident Prediction

Posted on June 22, 2023 by | Comments Off on Overconfidence is a Dangerous Thing: Mitigating Membership Inference Attacks by Enforcing Less Confident Prediction

Zitao Chen and Karthik Pattabiraman, To appear in the Network and Distributed Systems Security Conference (NDSS), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: TBD). [ PDF | Talk ] (ArXIV, Code). Artifacts Available, Functional and Reproduced
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SwarmFuzz: Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms

Posted on March 18, 2023 by | Comments Off on SwarmFuzz: Discovering GPS Spoofing Attacks in Drone Swarms

Elaine Yao, Pritam Dash and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2023. (Acceptance rate: 20%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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AChecker: Statically Detecting Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities

Posted on December 8, 2022 by | Comments Off on AChecker: Statically Detecting Smart Contract Access Control Vulnerabilities

Asem Ghaleb, Julia Rubin, and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 26%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code). Artifacts available and reusable badge
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Jujutsu: A Two-stage Defense against Adversarial Patch Attacks on Deep Neural Networks

Posted on November 23, 2022 by | Comments Off on Jujutsu: A Two-stage Defense against Adversarial Patch Attacks on Deep Neural Networks

Zitao Chen, Pritam Dash, and Karthik Pattabiraman. Proceedings of the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS), 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 16%) [ PDF | Talk ] (code)
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A Large-scale Empirical Study of Low-level Function Use in Ethereum Smart Contracts and Automated Replacement

Posted on October 7, 2022 by | Comments Off on A Large-scale Empirical Study of Low-level Function Use in Ethereum Smart Contracts and Automated Replacement

Rui Xi and Karthik Pattabiraman, Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE). [ PDF ] (featured in the Smart Contract Research Forum)
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eTainter: Detecting Gas-Related Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

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Asem Ghaleb, Julia Rubin, and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2022. (Acceptance Rate: 24.5%). [ PDF | Talk ] (Code) Artifacts Available and Reproducible Badge (link)
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When They Go Low: Automated Replacement of Low-level Functions in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Posted on December 18, 2021 by | Comments Off on When They Go Low: Automated Replacement of Low-level Functions in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Rui Xi and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2022. (Acceptance Rate: 36%) [ PDF | Talk ] (Code)
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Are you for Real? Authentication in Dynamic IoT Systems

Posted on September 2, 2021 by | Comments Off on Are you for Real? Authentication in Dynamic IoT Systems

Mehdi Karimibiuki, Karthik Pattabiraman, and Andre Ivanov, IEEE International Symposium on Pacific Rim Dependable Computing (PRDC), 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 43%) [ PDF | Talk ]
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PID-Piper: Recovering Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Posted on March 10, 2021 by | Comments Off on PID-Piper: Recovering Robotic Vehicles from Physical Attacks

Pritam Dash, Guanpeng Li, Zitao Chen, Mehdi Karimibiuki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 16.5%). [ PDF | Talk, Talk Video ] (Code, PID-Piper Videos) Best Paper Award (1 of nearly 300 submissions).
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Stealthy Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Intrusion Detection Techniques

Posted on August 21, 2020 by | Comments Off on Stealthy Attacks Against Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-based Intrusion Detection Techniques

Pritam Dash, Mehdi Karimibuiki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM Journal on Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP). Acceptance Date: August 2020. [ PDF ]
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