This paper analyzes privacy threats in federated matrix factorization.
problem Privacy threats in federated matrix factorization models.
method Categorizes federated matrix factorization into three types and analyzes privacy threats.
result This is the first study of privacy threats in federated matrix factorization.
Survey on security and privacy in decentralized federated learning.
problem New threats in decentralized federated learning due to the removal of the server.
method Thorough security analysis and overview of defense mechanisms.
result Challenges and threats in decentralized federated learning.
Survey on threats to federated learning models.
problem Vulnerabilities in federated learning protocols.
method Taxonomy of threat models and attacks.
result Important future research directions.
New method protects whistleblowers from retaliation by ensuring their reports remain private.
problem Whistleblowers face retaliation, and current protections are insufficient.
method Formalizes protection against strong-adversary threat model as per-report (0,δ)-differential privacy, and provides a generic mechanism to reduce private auditing to private continual counting. result Demonstrates a reduction in selection error and improved utility over randomized response.
Generative text classifiers are most vulnerable to membership inference attacks.
problem Privacy threat from Membership Inference Attacks on generative text classifiers.
method Comprehensive empirical evaluation of generative, discriminative, and pseudo-generative classifiers across various datasets.
result Generative classifiers explicitly modeling P(X,Y) are most vulnerable to membership leakage. Synth-MIA assesses privacy leakage in synthetic tabular data models.
problem Challenges in evaluating privacy leakage in synthetic tabular data.
method Unified threat framework deploying multiple attacks.
result Higher synthetic data quality correlates with greater privacy leakage.
Proposes privacy-preserving sensor data transformations to prevent user re-identification and sensitive activity inference.
problem Privacy threats from shared sensor data and potential user re-identification.
method Mechanisms to transform sensor data to eliminate patterns for re-identification and sensitive activity inference, while maintaining minor utility loss.
result Reduced user re-identification accuracy to random guess level and prevented inference of sensitive activities.
This paper introduces DPI, a new metric to assess data-copying risk in tabular data.
problem Measuring privacy risk of data-copying in tabular generative models.
method Proposes Data Plagiarism Index (DPI) for evaluating data-copying risk.
result DPI identifies data-copying threats to tabular data models, highlighting privacy and fairness issues.
Unified framework for analyzing model stealing attacks and defenses.
problem Vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing attacks.
method Developed a rigorous threat model and evaluation criteria, proposed methods to quantify attack and defense strategies.
result Demonstrated the importance of attack-specific perturbations for effective defenses.
New validation method prevents privacy breaches and biases in federated learning.
problem Privacy breaches and data leakage in federated learning.
method Stratified cross-validation for unbiased and privacy-preserving federated learning.
result Stratified cross-validation prevents data leakage without demanding deduplication algorithms.
Paper improves privacy for language models against reconstruction attacks.
problem Reconstruction attacks can regenerate training data from language models.
method Uses Rényi differential privacy with optimized privacy budgets.
result Better privacy guarantees for extraction of rare secrets.
Paper introduces privacy-preserving few-shot learning for images.
problem Privacy risk in few-shot learning systems.
method Discrete embedding vectors and one-way hash functions.
result Achieves computational pan privacy without storing embeddings.
In this paper, we address the problem of data reconstruction from privacy-protected templates, based on recent concept of sparse ternary coding with ambiguization (STCA). The STCA is a generalization of randomization techniques which includes random projections, lossy quantization, and addition of ambiguization noise t…
Research creates a taxonomy to bridge AI security and regulatory gaps.
problem Disciplinary disconnect between technical and legal teams in AI risk assessment.
method Developed an AI System Threat Vector Taxonomy with 9 domains and 53 sub-threats.
result Empirically validated and aligned with ISO/IEC 42001 controls and NIST AI RMF functions.
Parameter-transfer is a well-known and versatile approach for meta-learning, with applications including few-shot learning, federated learning, and reinforcement learning. However, parameter-transfer algorithms often require sharing models that have been trained on the samples from specific tasks, thus leaving the task…
Normalization layers improve the accuracy of Differentially Private training of deep neural networks.
problem Reduced accuracy in deep neural networks with Differentially Private training.
method Proposed a novel method for integrating batch normalization with Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) without additional privacy loss.
result Training deeper networks with better utility-privacy trade-off is possible.
Survey on privacy issues in deep learning and proposed solutions.
problem Privacy concerns in deep learning models due to sensitive data.
method Review of existing privacy techniques and gaps in research.
result Identification of test-time inference privacy as a research gap.
Paper reconstructs training data from a single gradient query.
problem Privacy threats in federated learning due to model gradients.
method Provable attack using tensor decomposition.
result Training samples can be fully reconstructed from a single gradient query.
Proposes a new privacy notion for membership inference attacks on machine learning models.
problem Membership inference attacks on machine learning models.
method Introduces f-Membership Inference Privacy (f-MIP) and μ-Gaussian Membership Inference Privacy (μ-GMIP) to quantify and mitigate privacy risks. result Analyzes likelihood ratio-based attacks and derives μ-GMIP guarantees for stochastic gradient descent (SGD) models. Smart Meters (SMs) are able to share the power consumption of users with utility providers almost in real-time. These fine-grained signals carry sensitive information about users, which has raised serious concerns from the privacy viewpoint. In this paper, we focus on real-time privacy threats, i.e., potential attacker…
PRIME algorithm estimates mean while ensuring privacy and robustness.
problem Privacy and robustness in shared data analysis.
method Introduces PRIME, the first efficient algorithm for both privacy and robustness.
result Achieves both privacy and robustness for a wide range of distributions.
Federated learning facilitates the collaborative training of models without the sharing of raw data. However, recent attacks demonstrate that simply maintaining data locality during training processes does not provide sufficient privacy guarantees. Rather, we need a federated learning system capable of preventing infer…
FedHDPrivacy uses DP to improve FL in IoT, maintaining high accuracy.
problem Privacy threats in FL, especially in IoT environments.
method Integrates DP with neuro-symbolic computing, actively monitoring and adjusting noise.
result Maintains high performance in manufacturing monitoring, surpassing other FL methods.
Survey examines public views on facial recognition technology.
problem Public acceptance and privacy concerns with facial recognition.
method Cross-national survey of 4 countries.
result Public views vary significantly across countries.
This paper evaluates and compares gradient leakage attacks in federated learning.
problem Gradient leakage attacks compromise client privacy in federated learning.
method Formal and experimental analysis of gradient leakage attacks, evaluation of attack effectiveness and cost.
result Gradient leakage attacks can reconstruct private local training data from shared parameter updates.
New framework UIFV reconstructs private features in VFL without model details.
problem Privacy risks in VFL where adversaries can reconstruct sensitive features.
method Unified InverNet Framework (UIFV) that uses intermediate feature data.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in attack precision.
Paper develops a method to detect training data used in machine learning models.
problem Detecting training data used in machine learning models.
method Measures leakage of training data using a proxy of a model's total variation near training samples.
result Empirical evidence supports the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Securely analyzes survival data across multiple institutions without revealing individual patient records.
problem Privacy concerns in federated survival analysis of health data.
method Multiparty homomorphic encryption for approximate floating-point computation and encrypted aggregation.
result Privacy-preserving federated Kaplan--Meier survival analysis with high fidelity and predictable overhead.
Machine learning algorithms, when applied to sensitive data, pose a distinct threat to privacy. A growing body of prior work demonstrates that models produced by these algorithms may leak specific private information in the training data to an attacker, either through the models' structure or their observable behavior.…
Preventing organizations from Cyber exploits needs timely intelligence about Cyber vulnerabilities and attacks, referred as threats. Cyber threat intelligence can be extracted from various sources including social media platforms where users publish the threat information in real time. Gathering Cyber threat intelligen…
Face recognition models can be inferred from student models, posing privacy risks.
problem Privacy threats in transfer learning models for face recognition.
method Membership inference attacks and attribute inference from aggregate-level information.
result Sensitive attributes can be inferred from student models, even with limited auxiliary information.
Framework extracts symptoms from EHRs for rapid disease outbreak detection.
problem Extracting relevant data from unstructured medical texts.
method Conformal active learning for efficient data mining.
result Framework achieves strong performance with minimal manual labeling.
Enhanced network threat detection using KG, LLM, and imbalanced learning.
problem Challenges in network threat detection due to complex attack patterns and limited historical data.
method Integrated framework combining Knowledge Graph, Imbalanced Learning, and Large Language Model.
result Improved threat capture rate by 3%-4% and increased interpretability of risk predictions.
This work surveys attacks and defenses on edge neural networks.
problem Security challenges of edge neural networks due to their compute and memory intensity, data-independence, and privacy risks.
method Taxonomy of attacks and defenses on edge-deployed neural networks.
result New security considerations and approaches are needed for edge DNNs.
Fawkes protects images from unauthorized facial recognition models.
problem Unauthorized training of facial recognition models poses privacy risks.
method Fawkes adds imperceptible pixel-level changes (cloaks) to images before release.
result Fawkes can protect images from misidentification by 95% and 80% even when clean images are leaked.
Reduces risk of model inversion by reducing sensitive feature influence.
problem Model inversion attacks reveal sensitive individual data from trained models.
method Privacy-guided training to reduce sensitive feature influence in tree-based models.
result Training models to reduce sensitive feature influence reduces the risk of inference attacks.
We improve image perturbation defenses using a better-defined Wasserstein threat model.
problem Real-world image perturbations are not pixel-independent, unlike ℓp threat models. method We rectify flaws in the Wasserstein threat model and explore stronger attacks and defenses.
result Current Wasserstein-robust models are ineffective against real-world perturbations.
Analysis of an organization's computer network activity is a key component of early detection and mitigation of insider threat, a growing concern for many organizations. Raw system logs are a prototypical example of streaming data that can quickly scale beyond the cognitive power of a human analyst. As a prospective fi…
New method defends against unseen threat models using perceptual adversarial training.
problem Lack of precise mathematical characterization of human perception in adversarial attacks.
method Adversarial training against the set of all imperceptible adversarial examples approximated by deep neural networks.
result Perceptual Adversarial Training (PAT) achieves state-of-the-art robustness against multiple diverse adversarial attacks.
This paper uses deep learning to improve network threat detection in finance.
problem Detecting unknown threats in large-scale data applications.
method Uses deep learning for advanced threat detection.
result Improves protective measures in the financial industry.
Bayesian deep learning is recently regarded as an intrinsic way to characterize the weight uncertainty of deep neural networks~(DNNs). Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics~(SGLD) is an effective method to enable Bayesian deep learning on large-scale datasets. Previous theoretical studies have shown various appealing p…
While the last few decades have witnessed a huge body of work devoted to inference and learning in distributed and decentralized setups, much of this work assumes a non-adversarial setting in which individual nodes---apart from occasional statistical failures---operate as intended within the algorithmic framework. In r…
Federated learning performs distributed model training using local data hosted by agents. It shares only model parameter updates for iterative aggregation at the server. Although it is privacy-preserving by design, federated learning is vulnerable to noise corruption of local agents, as demonstrated in the previous stu…
Adversarial attacks have exposed a significant security vulnerability in state-of-the-art machine learning models. Among these models include deep reinforcement learning agents. The existing methods for attacking reinforcement learning agents assume the adversary either has access to the target agent's learned paramete…
Current neural network-based classifiers are susceptible to adversarial examples even in the black-box setting, where the attacker only has query access to the model. In practice, the threat model for real-world systems is often more restrictive than the typical black-box model where the adversary can observe the full …
Insider threat detection is getting an increased concern from academia, industry, and governments due to the growing number of malicious insider incidents. The existing approaches proposed for detecting insider threats still have a common shortcoming, which is the high number of false alarms (false positives). The chal…
Adversarial training yields robust models against a specific threat model, e.g., L∞ adversarial examples. Typically robustness does not generalize to previously unseen threat models, e.g., other Lp norms, or larger perturbations. Our confidence-calibrated adversarial training (CCAT) tackles this problem by b…
Purveyors of malicious network attacks continue to increase the complexity and the sophistication of their techniques, and their ability to evade detection continues to improve as well. Hence, intrusion detection systems must also evolve to meet these increasingly challenging threats. Machine learning is often used to …