Tag Archives: security

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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How Effective are Smart Contract Static Analysis Tools ? Evaluating Smart Contract Static Analysis Tools Using Bug Injection

Asem Ghaleb and Karthik Pattabiraman, Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 26%) [PDF | Talk] (DataSet, CodeArtifacts Functional Badge)
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Out of Control: Stealthy Attacks on Robotic Vehicles Protected by Control-Based Techniques

Pritam Dash, Mehdi Karimibiuki, and Karthik Pattabiraman, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 22.6%) [ PDF | Talk ] (CodeArtifacts Reusable Badge from ACM)(Videos) This work appeared in the media (Eureka alert)(TechXplore)(Globalnews)(Market Associates)(Helpnet, SERENE-RISC digest)
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Design-Level and Code-Level Security Analysis of IoT Devices

Farid Molazem Tabrizi and Karthik Pattabiraman, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). [ PDF ]. Awarded best paper of TECS 2020 (ECE Story). Received significant news coverage (below).
(This paper supercedes our ACSAC’16 paper.)
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