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From Comments to Threats: Leveraging NLP to Detect Malicious Browser Extensions

With the increasing popularity of browser extensions, there is a growing concern about malicious actors exploiting this software to distribute malware. Existing solutions rely on …

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Evaluating the Integrity of LLM-Generated Citations: Prevalence and Risks of Fabricated References in Scientific Literature

Large Language Models have become important in our lives, and academia is not agnostic to this trend, offering tools like text rephrasing and summarisation. However, this …

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Breaking the silence: the rise of hate speech in Spanish politics

In this paper, we analyse the evolving role of hate speech in political rhetoric in Spain over the past three decades, focusing on its impact on electoral outcomes. Through a …

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Analysing the impact of ChatGPT in research

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a type of machine learning that handles a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) scenarios. Recently, in December 2022, a company called …

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Closing the Gap: Automated Distractor Generation in Japanese Language Testing

Recent advances in natural language processing have increased interest in automatic question generation, particularly in education (e.g., math, biology, law, medicine, and …

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Attribute-Based Encryption with Enforceable Obligations

Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a cryptographic mechanism that provides fine-grained access control to encrypted data, which can thus be stored in, e.g., public clouds. …

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Semantic Attribute-Based Encryption: A Framework for Combining ABE schemes with Semantic Technologies

Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a cryptographic solution to protect resources in a fine-grained manner based on a set of public attributes. This is similar to attribute-based …

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Gridchain: An Investigation of Privacy for the Future Local Distribution Grid

As part of building the smart grid, there is a massive deployment of so-called smart meters that aggregate information and communicate with the back-end office, apart from …

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Are Chrome Extensions Compliant with the Spirit of Least Privilege?

Extensions are small applications that are installed by users and enrich the user experience of browsing on the Internet. Browsers expose a set of restricted APIs to extensions …

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Modelling cryptographic distinguishers using machine learning

Cryptanalysis is the development and study of attacks against cryptographic primitives and protocols. Many cryptographic properties rely on the difficulty of generating an …

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