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Real-World Usability of Vulnerability Proof-of-Concepts: A Comprehensive Study Open

Wenjing Dang, Kaixuan Li, Sen Chen, Zhihong Zhuo, Lyuye Zhang , et al. · 2025

The Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for a vulnerability is crucial in validating its existence, mitigating false positives, and illustrating the severity of the security threat it poses. However, research on PoCs significantly lags behind studies f…

2-Month Outcomes of Conbercept in Macular Edema Secondary to Central Retinal Vein Occlusion from a randomized, multicenter, double-blind, sham-controlled phase III study: CRAVE Study Open

Wenbin Wei, Xue‐Hui Shi, Xiaorong Li, Xiaoxin Li, H Han , et al. · 2025

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravitreal injection of conbercept for the treatment of macular edema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO-ME). Methods Patients with CRVO were randomly divided into the treatme…

Characterizing Trust Boundary Vulnerabilities in TEE Containers Open

Weijie Liu, Hongbo Chen, Shuo Huai, Zhen Xu, Wenhao Wang , et al. · 2025

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged as a cornerstone of confidential computing, garnering significant attention from both academia and industry. To enable the secure development, execution, and deployment, of applications on…

BadReasoner: Planting Tunable Overthinking Backdoors into Large Reasoning Models for Fun or Profit Open

Biao Yi, Zekun Fei, Jianing Geng, Tong Li, Lihai Nie , et al. · 2025

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have emerged as a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, representing a specialized class of large language models (LLMs) designed to tackle complex reasoning tasks. The defining characteristic of…

Open Source, Hidden Costs: A Systematic Literature Review on OSS License Management Open

Boyuan Li, Chengwei Liu, Zheli Liu · 2025

Integrating third-party software components is a common practice in modern software development, offering significant advantages in terms of efficiency and innovation. However, this practice is fraught with risks related to software licens…

Uncovering API-Scope Misalignment in the App-in-App Ecosystem Open

Jiarui Che, Chenkai Guo, Naipeng Dong, Jiaxin Pei, Lingling Fan , et al. · 2025

The "app-in-app" paradigm is an emerging trend in mobile systems, where super applications (short for superApps) such as WeChat, Baidu, TikTok, enable external vendors to develop mini-programs (short for miniApps) on their platforms by pro…

CTRAP: Embedding Collapse Trap to Safeguard Large Language Models from Harmful Fine-Tuning Open

Tong Li, Zheli Liu · 2025

Fine-tuning-as-a-service, while commercially successful for Large Language Model (LLM) providers, exposes models to harmful fine-tuning attacks. As a widely explored defense paradigm against such attacks, unlearning attempts to remove mali…

Security and Privacy Measurement on Chinese Consumer IoT Traffic based on Device Lifecycle Open

C. Jin, Yuxin Song, Yan Jia, Qingyin Tan, Rui Yang , et al. · 2025

In recent years, consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become widely used in daily life. With the popularity of devices, related security and privacy risks arise at the same time as they collect user-related data and transmit it t…

Traceback of Poisoning Attacks to Retrieval-Augmented Generation Open

Baolei Zhang, Hongbo Xin, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Biao Yi , et al. · 2025

Your Semantic-Independent Watermark is Fragile: A Semantic Perturbation Attack against EaaS Watermark Open

Zekun Fei, Biao Yi, Jianing Geng, He Ruiqi, Lihai Nie , et al. · 2025

Rethinking Software Misconfigurations in the Real World: An Empirical Study and Literature Analysis Open

Yuhao Liu, Yingnan Zhou, Hanfeng Zhang, Zhiwei Chang, Sihan Xu , et al. · 2024

Software misconfiguration has consistently been a major reason for software failures. Over the past twenty decades, much work has been done to detect and diagnose software misconfigurations. However, there is still a gap between real-world…

Shortcut: Making MPC-based Collaborative Analytics Efficient on Dynamic Databases Open

Peizhao Zhou, Xiaojie Guo, Pinzhi Chen, Tong Li, Siyi Lv , et al. · 2024

Your Semantic-Independent Watermark is Fragile: A Semantic Perturbation Attack against EaaS Watermark Open

Zekun Fei, Biao Yi, Jianing Geng, Ruiqi He, Lihai Nie , et al. · 2024

Embedding-as-a-Service (EaaS) has emerged as a successful business pattern but faces significant challenges related to various forms of copyright infringement, particularly, the API misuse and model extraction attacks. Various studies have…

Prompt-Guided Internal States for Hallucination Detection of Large Language Models Open

Fujie Zhang, Peng Yu, Biao Yi, Baolei Zhang, Tong Li , et al. · 2024

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a variety of tasks in different domains. However, they sometimes generate responses that are logically coherent but factually incorrect or misleading, which is k…

Can Coverage Criteria Guide Failure Discovery for Image Classifiers? An Empirical Study Open

Zhiyu Wang, Sihan Xu, Lingling Fan, Xiangrui Cai, Linyu Li , et al. · 2024

Quality assurance of deep neural networks (DNNs) is crucial for the deployment of DNN-based software, especially in mission- and safety-critical tasks. Inspired by structural white-box testing in traditional software, many test criteria ha…

BadActs: A Universal Backdoor Defense in the Activation Space Open

Biao Yi, Sishuo Chen, Yiming Li, Tong Li, Baolei Zhang , et al. · 2024

Backdoor attacks pose an increasingly severe security threat to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) during their development stage. In response, backdoor sample purification has emerged as a promising defense mechanism, aiming to eliminate backdoo…

Analyzing Consumer IoT Traffic from Security and Privacy Perspectives: a Comprehensive Survey Open

Yan Jia, Yuxin Song, Zihou Liu, Qingyin Tan, Fang‐Ming Wang , et al. · 2024

The Consumer Internet of Things (CIoT), a notable segment within the IoT domain, involves the integration of IoT technology into consumer electronics and devices, such as smart homes and smart wearables. Compared to traditional IoT fields,…

Data security and privacy computing in artificial intelligence Open

Dengguo Feng, Hui Li, Rongxing Lu, Zheli Liu, Jianbing Ni , et al. · 2024

Efficient Searchable Symmetric Encryption in Industrial Iot Production Open

Qiang Li, Thar Baker, Yanyu Huang, Zheli Liu, Yue Yang , et al. · 2024

LiSum: Open Source Software License Summarization with Multi-Task Learning Open

Linyu Li, Sihan Xu, Yang Liu, Gao Ya, Xiangrui Cai , et al. · 2023

Open source software (OSS) licenses regulate the conditions under which users can reuse, modify, and distribute the software legally. However, there exist various OSS licenses in the community, written in a formal language, which are typic…

LiResolver: License Incompatibility Resolution for Open Source Software Open

Sihan Xu, Ya Gao, Lingling Fan, Linyu Li, Xiangrui Cai , et al. · 2023

Open source software (OSS) licenses regulate the conditions under which OSS\ncan be legally reused, distributed, and modified. However, a common issue\narises when incorporating third-party OSS accompanied with licenses, i.e.,\nlicense inc…

CRSExtractor: Automated configuration option read sites extraction towards IoT cloud infrastructure Open

Yuhao Liu, Wei Wang, Yan Jia, Sihan Xu, Zheli Liu · 2023

New Approach for Efficient Malicious Multiparty Private Set Intersection Open

Siyi Lv, Wei Yu, Jingyu Jia, Xinhao Li, Zheli Liu , et al. · 2023

New Differential Privacy Communication Pipeline and Design Framework Open

Jingyu Jia, Zikai Alex Wen, Zheli Liu, Changyu Dong · 2022

Organizations started to adopt differential privacy (DP) techniques hoping to persuade more users to share personal data with them. However, many users do not understand DP techniques, thus may not be willing to share. Previous research su…

LiDetector: License Incompatibility Detection for Open Source Software Open

Sihan Xu, Ya Gao, Lingling Fan, Zheli Liu, Yang Liu , et al. · 2022

Open-source software (OSS) licenses dictate the conditions which should be followed to reuse, distribute, and modify the software. Apart from widely-used licenses such as the MIT License, developers are also allowed to customize their own …

Total Variation Distance Privacy: Accurately Measuring Inference Attacks and Improving Utility Open

Jingyu Jia, Chang Tan, Zhewei Liu, Xinhao Li, Zheli Liu , et al. · 2022

Outcomes of Eyes Lost to Follow-Up in Patients with Central Retinal Vein Occlusion Who are Receiving Anti-Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Treatment Open

Kaibo Yang, Lei Liu, Hao Feng, Jun Li, Zheli Liu , et al. · 2021

In CRVO-ME patients who are receiving anti-VEGF therapy, unintentional treatment interruptions can cause visually disastrous consequences, including irreversible blindness. Patients who were LTFU for a long period should be strongly warned…

IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Security and Privacy in Emerging Decentralized Communication Environments Open

Xiaochun Cheng, Zheli Liu, Xiaojiang Du, Shui Yu, Leonardo Mostarda · 2021

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, face-to-face team working has changed into distanced work from home. Modern, decentralized digital communication environments are changing with the availability of new technologies and the development of new r…

Eurus: Towards an Efficient Searchable Symmetric Encryption With Size Pattern Protection Open

Zheli Liu, Yanyu Huang, Xiangfu Song, Bo Li, Jin Li , et al. · 2020

To achieve efficiently search and update on outsourced encrypted data, dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) was proposed by just leaking some well-defined leakages. Though small, many recent works show that an attacker can exploi…

Optical coherence tomography angiography characteristics in Waldenström macroglobulinemia retinopathy: A case report Open

Jun Li, Rui Zhang, Feng Gu, Zheli Liu, Peng Sun · 2020

WM may affect visual function and present as bilateral CRVO. OCTA can show characteristic changes in both retina and choroid vasculatures, which might be of great value for diagnosing or following patients with WM retinopathy. Intravitreal…

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