Secure Autonomous Systems

Instructor: Prof. Sibin Mohan, The George Washington University

CSCI 6907/3907 | Fall 2022 | TR 12:45PM - 02:00PM ET | SMTH 115


Paper Reading List

Administrivia

Time per paper 35 mins
Presentation Time 25 mins
Discussion Time 10 mins
Total Points 30 [10/paper]

Select one paper from each of the following groups: attacks, defenses, ethics & privacy.

Every speaker must present three papers in total, through the term.

Group A | Attacks

  1. Francillon, Aurélien, et al. "Relay attacks on passive keyless entry and start systems in modern cars." Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). 2011.
  2. X. Ji, et al. "Poltergeist: Acoustic Adversarial Machine Learning against Cameras and Computer Vision." 2021 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2021, pp. 160-175, doi: 10.1109/SP40001.2021.00091.
  3. Eykholt, Kevin, et al. "Robust physical-world attacks on deep learning visual classification." Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2018.
  4. Jing, Pengfei, et al. "Too Good to Be Safe: Tricking Lane Detection in Autonomous Driving with Crafted Perturbations." 30th USENIX Security Symposium, 2021.
  5. Patel, Naman et al. “Adaptive Adversarial Videos on Roadside Billboards: Dynamically Modifying Trajectories of Autonomous Vehicles.” 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2019): 5916-5921.
  6. Sitawarin, C., Bhagoji, A. N., Mosenia, A., Chiang, M., & Mittal, P. (2018). "Darts: Deceiving autonomous cars with toxic sign". arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06430.
  7. Sathaye, Harshad, et al. "Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems." 28th USENIX Security Symposium 2019.
  8. S. Jha et al., "ML-Based Fault Injection for Autonomous Vehicles: A Case for Bayesian Fault Injection," 2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2019, pp. 112-124, doi: 10.1109/DSN.2019.00025.
  9. Garcia, Flavio D., et al. "Lock It and Still Lose It—on the ({In) Security} of Automotive Remote Keyless Entry Systems." 25th USENIX security symposium (USENIX Security 16). 2016.
  10. J. Lin, et al. "Data Integrity Attacks Against Dynamic Route Guidance in Transportation-Based Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling, Analysis, and Defense." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 8738-8753, Sept. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2018.2845744.
  11. Liu, Songran, et al. "Leaking your engine speed by spectrum analysis of real-Time scheduling sequences." Journal of Systems Architecture 97 (2019): 455-466.
  12. Yeom, Samuel et al. "Overfitting, Robustness, and Malicious Algorithms: A Study of Potential Causes of Privacy Risk in Machine Learning". Journal of Computer Security 28.1 (2020): 35-70.
  13. Farha Jahan, Weiqing Sun, Quamar Niyaz, and Mansoor Alam. 2019. "Security Modeling of Autonomous Systems: A Survey". ACM Comput. Surv. 52, 5, Article 91 (September 2020), 34 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3337791
  14. Wen, H., Zhao, Q., Chen, Q. A., & Lin, Z. "Automated cross-platform reverse engineering of CAN bus commands from mobile apps". In Proceedings 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'20).
  15. Miller, Charlie, et al. "Remote exploitation of an unaltered passenger vehicle.." Black Hat USA 2015.S 91. (2015).

Group D | Defenses

  1. Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Jianying Zhou, and Aditya P. Mathur. 2018. "Noise Matters: Using Sensor and Process Noise Fingerprint to Detect Stealthy Cyber Attacks and Authenticate sensors in CPS. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC '18). 566–581. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3274694.3274748
  2. Miller, Charlie, and Chris Valasek. "Securing self-driving cars (one company at a time)." Black Hat (2018).
  3. Roman A-S, Genge B, Duka A-V, Haller P. "Privacy-Preserving Tampering Detection in Automotive Systems" Electronics. 2021; 10(24):3161. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10243161
  4. Gruebler, Anna, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, and Khattab M. Ali Alheeti. "An intrusion detection system against black hole attacks on the communication network of self-driving cars." 2015 sixth international conference on emerging security technologies (EST). IEEE, 2015.
  5. Lu, J., Sibai, H., Fabry, E., & Forsyth, D. "Standard detectors aren't (currently) fooled by physical adversarial stop signs". arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03337.
  6. Raj Gautam Dutta, Xiaolong Guo, Teng Zhang, Kevin Kwiat, Charles Kamhoua, Laurent Njilla, and Yier Jin. "Estimation of Safe Sensor Measurements of Autonomous System Under Attack". In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017 (DAC '17). https://doi.org/10.1145/3061639.3062241
  7. Aniculaesei, Adina, et al. "Toward a holistic software systems engineering approach for dependable autonomous systems." 2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for AI in Autonomous Systems (SEFAIAS). IEEE, 2018.
  8. Feth, P., Akram, M. N., Schuster, R., & Wasenmüller, O. "Dynamic risk assessment for vehicles of higher automation levels by deep learning". In International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (pp. 535-547). Springer.
  9. A. Singandhupe and H. M. La, "MCC-EKF for Autonomous Car Security," 2020 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), 2020, pp. 306-313, doi: 10.1109/IRC.2020.00056.
  10. Sun, Xiaowu, Haitham Khedr, and Yasser Shoukry. "Formal verification of neural network controlled autonomous systems." Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control. 2019.
  11. Abera, T., Bahmani, R., Brasser, F., Ibrahim, A., Sadeghi, A. R., & Schunter, M. "DIAT: Data Integrity Attestation for Resilient Collaboration of Autonomous Systems". In Proceedings 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2019.
  12. J. Kamel, A. Kaiser, I. ben Jemaa, P. Cincilla and P. Urien, "CaTch: A Confidence Range Tolerant Misbehavior Detection Approach," 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2019, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885740.
  13. Yang, Y., & Huang, G. (2020). "Map-based localization under adversarial attacks". In Robotics Research (pp. 775-790). Springer
  14. Q. Liu, Y. Mo, X. Mo, C. Lv, E. Mihankhah and D. Wang, "Secure Pose Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles under Cyber Attacks," 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2019, pp. 1583-1588, doi: 10.1109/IVS.2019.8814161.
  15. Madan, Bharat B., Manoj Banik, and Doina Bein. "Securing unmanned autonomous systems from cyber threats." The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation 16.2 (2019): 119-136.

Group EPL | Ethics, Privacy, Law

  1. Dennis, Louise, et al. "Formal verification of ethical choices in autonomous systems." Robotics and Autonomous Systems 77 (2016): 1-14.
  2. Thierry Fraichard. "Will the Driver Seat Ever Be Empty?" [Research Report] RR-8493, INRIA. 2014. hal-00965176v2
  3. Fleetwood, Janet. "Public health, ethics, and autonomous vehicles." American journal of public health 107.4 (2017): 532-537.
  4. Schellekens, Maurice. "Self-driving cars and the chilling effect of liability law." Computer Law & Security Review 31.4 (2015): 506-517.
  5. Héder, M. "The epistemic opacity of autonomous systems and the ethical consequences". AI & Soc (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01024-9
  6. Berendt, Bettina. 2020. “(De)constructing Ethics for Autonomous Cars: A Case Study of Ethics Pen-Testing towards ‘AI for the Common Good’”. The International Review of Information Ethics 28 (June). Edmonton, Canada. https://doi.org/10.29173/irie381.
  7. T. Holstein and G. Dodig-Crnkovic, "Avoiding the Intrinsic Unfairness of the Trolley Problem" 2018 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Software Fairness (FairWare), 2018, pp. 32-37, doi: 10.23919/FAIRWARE.2018.8452918.
  8. Kulicki, Piotr & Trypuz, Robert & Musielewicz, Michael. "Kulicki, Piotr & Trypuz, Robert & Musielewicz, Michael. (2018). Towards a Formal Ethics for Autonomous Cars", Deontic Logic and Normative Systems. 14th International Conference, DEON 2018.
  9. Glancy, Dorothy J. "Privacy in autonomous vehicles," Santa Clara L. Rev. 52 (2012): 1171.
  10. J. Wang, Z. Cai and J. Yu, "Achieving Personalized $k$-Anonymity-Based Content Privacy for Autonomous Vehicles in CPS," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 4242-4251, June 2020, doi: 10.1109/TII.2019.2950057.
  11. S. Karnouskos and F. Kerschbaum, "Privacy and Integrity Considerations in Hyperconnected Autonomous Vehicles," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 106, no. 1, pp. 160-170, Jan. 2018, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2017.2725339.
  12. Jardim, Adam Sebastian, Alex Michael Quartulli, and Sean Vincent Casley. "A study of public acceptance of autonomous cars." Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Worcester, MA, USA(2013).
  13. Zhang, Heng, et al. "Privacy and performance trade-off in cyber-physical systems." IEEE Network 30.2 (2016): 62-66.
  14. M. Keshk, E. Sitnikova, N. Moustafa, J. Hu and I. Khalil, "An Integrated Framework for Privacy-Preserving Based Anomaly Detection for Cyber-Physical Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 66-79, 1 Jan.-March 2021, doi: 10.1109/TSUSC.2019.2906657.
  15. Gogoll, Jan, and Julian F. Müller. "Autonomous cars: in favor of a mandatory ethics setting." Science and engineering ethics23.3 (2017): 681-700.

How to Critique a Paper

Tips on how to critique a paper by Sibin Mohan (Oct 2022)