Security News

Model Extraction from Neural Networks
2024-07-01 11:05

A new paper, "Polynomial Time Cryptanalytic Extraction of Neural Network Models," by Adi Shamir and others, uses ideas from differential cryptanalysis to extract the weights inside a neural network using specific queries and their results. Billions of dollars and countless GPU hours are currently spent on training Deep Neural Networks for a variety of tasks.

Model Extraction Attack on Neural Networks
2023-10-10 11:09

Abstract: Billions of dollars and countless GPU hours are currently spent on training Deep Neural Networks for a variety of tasks. Thus, it is essential to determine the difficulty of extracting all the parameters of such neural networks when given access to their black-box implementations.

Availability Attacks against Neural Networks
2020-06-10 11:31

Sponge Examples: Energy-Latency Attacks on Neural Networks shows how to find adversarial examples that cause a DNN to burn more energy, take more time, or both. They affect a wide range of DNN applications, from image recognition to natural language processing.

Detecting Trojan attacks against deep neural networks
2019-02-19 14:10

A group of researchers with CSIRO’s Data61, the digital innovation arm of Australia’s national science agency, have been working on a system for run time detection of trojan attacks on deep neural...

Text CAPTCHAs easily beaten by neural networks
2018-12-12 12:12

As CAPTCHA-haters know to their frequent irritation, the death of the text-based Completely Automated Procedures for Telling Computers and Humans Apart tends to be exaggerated.

Symantec unveils neural network to protect critical infrastructure from cyber warfare
2018-12-07 04:30

Symantec introduced Industrial Control System Protection (ICSP) Neural, the neural network-integrated USB scanning station that helps organizations protect infrastructure by preventing the...

Symantec develops neural network to thwart cyberattack-induced blackouts
2018-12-05 16:33

The company is rolling out a device that scans for malware on USB devices to block attacks on IoT and operational technology environments.

Kalray unveils its Kalray Target Controller and Kalray Neural Network
2018-06-25 22:40

Kalray announced Kalray Target Controller (KTC80) with inline mirroring to offload the network while securing the data and the Kalray Neural Network (KaNN) performing live object recognition using...

Microsoft Uses Neural Networks to Improve Fuzzing
2017-11-14 07:10

A team of Microsoft researchers has been working on improving fuzzing techniques by using deep neural networks, and initial tests have shown promising results. read more

Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-03 11:05

Researchers have trained a neural network to encrypt its communications. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine learning, without being taught...