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Sep 26

Newly discovered side-channel attack side steps current defense mechanisms

In a recent study, co-authored by Carnegie Mellon Software and Societal Systems Assistant Professor Riccardo Paccagnella, he and fellow researchers have uncovered a new type of side-channel attack, dubbed GPU.zip, which exploits software-transparent uses of compression.

Sep 19

Sriraman and Sharif receive Intel’s 2023 Rising Star Faculty Award

ECE Assistant Professor Akshitha Sriraman and CMU Alumnus and Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University Mahmood Sharif have received Intel's 2023 Rising Star Faculty Award for their novel work in electrical and computer engineering.

Sep 13

Researchers develop adversarial training methods to improve machine learning-based malware detection software

Professor Lujo Bauer and a team of researchers investigate the effectiveness of using adversarial training methods to create malware detection models that are more robust to some of the state-of-the-art attacks.

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    CyLab’s researchers have published more than 400 security and privacy research studies in the past five years

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