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Modern software teams are under pressure to move fast, innovate faster, and deliver continuously. At the same time, attackers are evolving just as quickly, and in many cases, faster than the tools meant to stop them.

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Session 7D: ML Security

Authors, Creators & Presenters: Qi Xia (University of Texas at San Antonio), Qian Chen (University of Texas at San Antonio)

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AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks via Alpha Channel Oversight

Traditional black-box adversarial attacks on computer vision models face significant limitations, including intensive querying requirements, time-consuming iterative processes, a lack of universality, and low attack success rates (ASR) and confidence levels (CL) due to subtle perturbations. This paper introduces AlphaDog, an Alpha channel attack, the first universally efficient targeted no-box attack, exploiting the often overlooked Alpha channel in RGBA images to create visual disparities between human perception and machine interpretation, efficiently deceiving both. Specifically, AlphaDog maliciously sets the RGB channels to represent the desired object for AI recognition, while crafting the Alpha channel to create a different perception for humans when blended with a standard or default background color of digital media (thumbnail or image viewer apps). Leveraging differences in how AI models and human vision process transparency, AlphaDog outperforms existing adversarial attacks in four key ways: (i) as a no-box attack, it requires zero queries; (ii) it achieves highly efficient generation, taking milliseconds to produce arbitrary attack images; (iii) AlphaDog can be universally applied, compromising most AI models with a single attack image; (iv) it guarantees 100% ASR and CL. The assessment of 6,500 AlphaDog attack examples across 100 state-of-the-art image recognition systems demonstrates AlphaDog's effectiveness, and an IRB-approved experiment involving 20 college-age participants validates AlphaDog's stealthiness. AlphaDog can be applied in data poisoning, evasion attacks, and content moderation. Additionally, a novel pixel-intensity histogram-based detection method is introduced to identify AlphaDog, achieving 100% effectiveness in detecting and protecting computer vision models against AlphaDog. Demos are available on the AlphaDog website

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UNFInished business: We were warned this would happen. And now here we are.

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Arkose Labs offers comprehensive mobile SDKs for both Android and iOS, delivering enterprise-grade fraud prevention across major platforms. Now, we’re enhancing our Android SDK with Mobile Integrity Check—powered by Google Play Integrity API—to detect compromised devices, modified applications, and emulator-based attacks that evade traditional detection methods. This critical advancement works alongside our bot manager to … Continued

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Speed is not the problem. Bad speed is. Founders are shipping MVPs faster than ever using AI, yet many of those products collapse the moment...Read More

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a long-awaited update to its incident response guidance: Special Publication 800-61 Revision 3 (SP 800-61r3). This new version, titled “Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management,” aligns closely with the latest Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, marking a significant evolution in how organizations should […]

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404 Media has the story:

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually, according to marketing material on Flock’s website. We watched Condor cameras zoom in on a woman walking her dog on a bike path in suburban Atlanta; a camera followed a man walking through a Macy’s parking lot in Bakersfield; surveil children swinging on a swingset at a playground; and film high-res video of people sitting at a stoplight in traffic. In one case, we were able to watch a man rollerblade down Brookhaven, Georgia’s Peachtree Creek Greenway bike path. The Flock camera zoomed in on him and tracked him as he rolled past. Minutes later, he showed up on another exposed camera livestream further down the bike path. The camera’s resolution was good enough that we were able to see that, when he stopped beneath one of the cameras, he was watching rollerblading videos on his phone...

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Introduction: Why MSSPs Need a New Security Backbone Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) are operating in one of the most demanding environments in cybersecurity today. They are expected to defend multiple organizations simultaneously, across different industries, infrastructures, and threat profiles – all while maintaining strict service-level agreements, operational efficiency, and consistent detection accuracy. At the

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December 2025 was a brutal reality check for security teams. While most were winding down for the holidays, threat actors weaponized a tectonic shift in the landscape, headlined by the...

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Explore key cybersecurity predictions for 2026, from AI-powered phishing to DMARC enforcement, BIMI adoption, SPF and DKIM limits, Zero Trust, and automation.

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Managing security across 1000+ endpoints is no longer a scale problem alone; it is a complexity problem. Modern enterprise environments are dynamic, hybrid, and API-driven. Cloud workloads, remote employees, containerized services, and third-party integrations constantly introduce new endpoints. Traditional security tools struggle to keep pace, resulting in blind spots, alert fatigue, and delayed remediation. To […]

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Secure your AI infrastructure with post-quantum identity and access management. Protect MCP deployments from quantum-enabled threats using PQC and zero-trust.

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Explore various types of authentication methods including MFA, SSO, and Biometrics. Learn how to secure enterprise apps and prevent data breach.

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Explore the readiness of passkeys for enterprise use. Learn about FIDO2, WebAuthn, phishing resistance, and the challenges of legacy IT integration.

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When security vulnerabilities appear in popular frameworks, they can affect thousands of websites overnight. That’s exactly what’s happening with a newly discovered vulnerability in Next.js – one of the most...

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Researchers discovered a security flaw in Google's Gemini AI chatbot that could put the 2 billion Gmail users in danger of being victims of an indirect prompt injection attack, which could lead to credentials being stolen or phishing attacks.

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via Photographer Marjory Collins in New York City, NY, USA, January 1943.

Blowing Horns on Bleeker Street, New Year's Day

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As enterprises increasingly rely on SaaS applications to run critical business functions, risk management and compliance challenges are becoming more complex and less visible. Traditional governance models were not designed to account for the scale, speed, and decentralization of modern SaaS environments. Addressing this gap requires a closer connection between operational visibility and governance, risk, […]

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Learn how granular attribute-based access control (ABAC) prevents context window injections in AI infrastructure using quantum-resistant security and MCP.

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