CERIAS Weekly Security Seminar - Purdue University

Apr 29, 202649m#917Video

Cybersecurity practitioners face a persistent methodological problem: how should we reason about intelligent adversaries who observe our defenses, adapt their tactics, and choose targets based on our vulnerabilities? The

Apr 22, 202659m#916Video

The rapid evolution of connected devices and technologies has transformed the Internet of Things (IoT) into increasingly intelligent and autonomous systems. This talk focuses on the progression from traditional IoT to th

Apr 15, 202652m#915Video

Ransomware has evolved from basic digital extortion into a sophisticated, AI-powered threat that's faster,smarter, and more devastating than ever before. In this session, we'll explore how threat actors are weaponizing a

Apr 8, 20261h 13m#914Video

Annual Security Symposium. Visit: https://ceri.as/2026 Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming both the opportunities and risks within cybersecurity, creating a new landscape that today's students and researchers

Apr 1, 202655m#913Video

The rapid adoption of mobile applications for managing consumer whole-house battery and energy systems has introduced new questions about software supply chain security. While these applications are not currently integra

Mar 25, 20261h 3m#912Video

Software signing is a foundational mechanism for improving software supply-chain security because it helps establish artifact provenance, integrity, and authenticity across organizational boundaries. Yet the security val

Mar 11, 20261h 1m#911Video

Quantum threats to cryptography has been fueled by Shor's and Grover's quantum algorithms and their derivatives. That has led a decade-long development of post-quantum cryptography algorithms and standards. While there a

Mar 4, 202659m#910Video

As foundation models, including large language models and multimodal models, are increasingly deployed in complex and high-stakes settings, ensuring their safety has become more important than ever. In this talk, I prese

Feb 25, 20261h 3m#909Video

Many organizations adopt security frameworks but struggle to turn them into day-to-day operations that reduce risk without slowing delivery. This talk presents a practical operating model that pairs ISO/IEC 27001 (as the

Feb 18, 202638m#908Video

Deepfake voice technology is rapidly advancing, but how well do current detection systems handle differences in language and writing style? Most existing work focuses on robustness to acoustic variations such as backgrou

Feb 11, 202647m#907Video

The rise of Industry 4.0 has transformed manufacturing through the integration of cyber-physical systems, connectivity, and real-time data exchange into increasingly automated and intelligent platforms. While these advan

Feb 4, 202646m#906Video

Parental sharing, sometimes termed "sharenting," refers to ways that parents share information about their children online and is a common mechanism through which young children are exposed to social media. Parental shar

Jan 28, 202653m#905Video

Hardware security is not a new problem, but it is rapidly expanding in both consumer and medical domains due to hyperconnectivity. Medical devices and counterfeit medicines represent a fundamental security challenge. In

Jan 21, 202632m#904Video

AI-driven machine vision systems are becoming essential in mechanical engineering applications such as fastener classification, yet their increasing connectivity exposes them to adversarial cyberattacks. Model evasion at

Jan 14, 202644m#903Video

Collaborative robots and machine-learning-based virtual agents are increasingly entering the human workspace with the aim of increasing productivity, enhancing safety, and improving the quality of our lives. These agents

Dec 10, 202554m#902Video

Over the past several years, CL0P has executed multiple mass exploitation campaigns using zero-day vulnerabilities in popular software products that resulted in mass data exfiltration. In this talk we'll take a look at t

Dec 3, 202553m#901Video

In this talk, I will discuss recent research projects at the intersection of software security and automated reasoning. Specifically, I will present our work on assessing the exploitability of the Android kernel and deve

Nov 19, 20251h 2m#900Video

Online video games have evolved into vast financial ecosystems where real and virtual value mix at scale. This presentation shows how these spaces serve as efficient laundering channels, converting illicit funds from org

Nov 12, 202552m#899Video

Reasoning—the process of drawing conclusions from prior knowledge—is a hallmark of intelligence. Large language models, and more recently, large reasoning models have demonstrated impressive results on many reasoning-int

Nov 5, 202558m#898Video

Can we automatically and provably quantify and control the information leakage from a black-box processing? From a statistical inference standpoint, in this talk, I will start from a unified framework to summarize existi

Oct 29, 202552m#897Video

The current largest challenge in ML-based malware detection is maintaining high detection rates while samples evolve, causing classifiers to drift. What is the best way to solve this problem? In this talk, Dr. Botacin pr

Oct 22, 202555m#895Video

Trust in modern AI systems hinges on understanding how they learn—and, increasingly, how they can forget. This talk develops a geometric view of trustworthiness that unifies structure-aware optimization, stability analys

Oct 15, 202551m#894Video

This seminar examines the challenges of securing Linux (and legacy UNIX) systems in heterogenous enterprise environments, where cohabitant Windows infrastructure often dictates corporate security focus, resources, and to

Oct 8, 202545m#893Video

In the UK one of the great global car brands is on the verge of bankruptcy this month due to a single cyber-attack with the consequence of a potential loss of 130,000 jobs. Jaguar Land Rover is seeking a government bail-

Oct 1, 202548m#892Video

AI is enabling developers and non-developers (product managers, solutions engineers) to write more lines of code than even before. Businesses are under pressure to ship these AI built products to stay competitive while s