Integrating blockchain and the internet of things in precision agriculture: Analysis, opportunities, and challenges

M Torky, AE Hassanein - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2020 - Elsevier
Blockchain quickly became an important technology in many applications of precision
agriculture discipline. The need to develop smart P2P systems capable of verifying …

Privacy and security in online social networks: A survey

I Kayes, A Iamnitchi - Online Social Networks and Media, 2017 - Elsevier
Online social networks (OSN) are a permanent presence in today's personal and
professional lives of a huge segment of the population, with direct consequences to offline …

Fedrecover: Recovering from poisoning attacks in federated learning using historical information

X Cao, J Jia, Z Zhang, NZ Gong - 2023 IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Federated learning is vulnerable to poisoning attacks in which malicious clients poison the
global model via sending malicious model updates to the server. Existing defenses focus on …

Backdoor attacks to graph neural networks

Z Zhang, J Jia, B Wang, NZ Gong - … of the 26th ACM Symposium on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we propose the first backdoor attack to graph neural networks (GNN).
Specifically, we propose a subgraph based backdoor attack to GNN for graph classification …

Poisoning attacks to graph-based recommender systems

M Fang, G Yang, NZ Gong, J Liu - … of the 34th annual computer security …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate
items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are …

Data poisoning attacks to deep learning based recommender systems

H Huang, J Mu, NZ Gong, Q Li, B Liu, M Xu - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems play a crucial role in helping users to find their interested
information in various web services such as Amazon, YouTube, and Google News. Various …

Graphfl: A federated learning framework for semi-supervised node classification on graphs

B Wang, A Li, M Pang, H Li… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Graph-based semi-supervised node classification (GraphSSC) has wide applications,
ranging from networking and security to data mining and machine learning, etc. However …

Attacking graph-based classification via manipulating the graph structure

B Wang, NZ Gong - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Graph-based classification methods are widely used for security analytics. Roughly
speaking, graph-based classification methods include collective classification and graph …

Adapting membership inference attacks to GNN for graph classification: Approaches and implications

B Wu, X Yang, S Pan, X Yuan - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In light of the wide application of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), Membership Inference
Attack (MIA) against GNNs raises severe privacy concerns, where training data can be …

A novel framework for detecting social bots with deep neural networks and active learning

Y Wu, Y Fang, S Shang, J Jin, L Wei, H Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Microblogging is a popular online social network (OSN), which facilitates users to obtain and
share news and information. Nevertheless, it is filled with a huge number of social bots that …