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In the fight against tax evaders and other cheats, governments seek to gather more information about their citizens. In this paper we claim that this increased transparency, combined with ineptitude, or corruption, can lead to widespread…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Zacharias Tzermias , Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Sotiris Ioannidis , Vassilis Prevelakis

As 3GPP systems have strengthened security at the upper layers of the cellular stack, plaintext PHY and MAC layers have remained relatively understudied, though interest in them is growing. In this work, we explore lower-layer exploitation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Subangkar Karmaker Shanto , Imtiaz Karim , Elisa Bertino

This paper shows that today's wireless charging interface is vulnerable to power side-channel attacks; a smartphone charging wirelessly leaks private information about its activity to the wireless charger (charging transmitter). We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Alexander S. La Cour , Khurram K. Afridi , G. Edward Suh

While fifth-generation (5G) communications are being rolled out worldwide, sixth-generation (6G) communications have attracted much attention from both the industry and the academia. Compared with 5G, 6G will have a wider frequency band,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yang Zhao , Wenchao Zhai , Jun Zhao , Tinghao Zhang , Sumei Sun , Dusit Niyato , Kwok-Yan Lam

A myriad of IoT devices such as bulbs, switches, speakers in a smart home environment allow users to easily control the physical world around them and facilitate their living styles through the sensors already embedded in these devices.…

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables massive data collection and analysis while protecting end users' privacy against untrusted aggregators. It has been applied to various data types (e.g., categorical, numerical, and graph data) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Xinyu Li , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Liang Shi , Chia-Mu Yu

Similarly to elsewhere on the Internet, practical security in the Internet of Things (IoT) is achieved by combining an array of mechanisms, at work at all layers of the protocol stack, in system software, and in hardware. Standard protocols…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Gabriele Restuccia , Hannes Tschofenig , Emmanuel Baccelli

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in enterprise settings (e.g., as Microsoft 365 Copilot) face novel security challenges. One critical threat is prompt inference attacks: adversaries chain together seemingly benign prompts to gradually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Andrii Balashov , Olena Ponomarova , Xiaohua Zhai

Anonymity systems such as Tor aim to enable users to communicate in a manner that is untraceable by adversaries that control a small number of machines. To provide efficient service to users, these anonymity systems make full use of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Prateek Mittal , Ahmed Khurshid , Joshua Juen , Matthew Caesar , Nikita Borisov

Smartphone carrier companies rely on mobile networks for keeping an accurate record of customer data usage for billing purposes. In this paper, we present a vulnerability that allows an attacker to force the victim's smartphone to consume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Dean Wasil , Omar Nakhila , Salih Safa Bacanli , Cliff Zou , Damla Turgut

Protecting users' privacy over the Internet is of great importance; however, it becomes harder and harder to maintain due to the increasing complexity of network protocols and components. Therefore, investigating and understanding how data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Amir Hossein Khajepour , Amirmohammad Ziaei , Amir Ali Gatmiri , Ali Taheri

High-latency anonymous communication systems prevent passive eavesdroppers from inferring communicating partners with certainty. However, disclosure attacks allow an adversary to recover users' behavioral profiles when communications are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Simon Oya , Carmela Troncoso , Fernando Pérez-González

Today, telecommunication service providers (telcos) are exposed to cyber-attacks executed by compromised IoT devices connected to their customers' networks. Such attacks might have severe effects not only on the target of attacks but also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yair Meidan , Vinay Sachidananda , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

We present a computational security analysis of the Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) protocols for both Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS). This work constitutes the first security analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Joe-Kai Tsay , Stig Mjølsnes

Natural language processing (NLP) models may leak private information in different ways, including membership inference, reconstruction or attribute inference attacks. Sensitive information may not be explicit in the text, but hidden in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Pedro Faustini , Shakila Mahjabin Tonni , Annabelle McIver , Qiongkai Xu , Mark Dras

The 5th generation (5G) network adopts a great number of revolutionary technologies to fulfill continuously increasing requirements of a variety of applications, including ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency, ultra-massive device…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Zhihong Tian , Yanbin Sun , Shen Su , Mohan Li , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Massive developments in mobile wireless telecommunication networks have been made during the last few decades. At present, mobile users are getting familiar with the latest 5G networks, and the discussion for the next generation of Beyond…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Chamara Sandeepa , Bartlomiej Siniarski , Nicolas Kourtellis , Shen Wang , Madhusanka Liyanage

To receive service in today's cellular architecture, phones uniquely identify themselves to towers and thus to operators. This is now a cause of major privacy violations, as operators now sell and leak identity and location data of hundreds…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Paul Schmitt , Barath Raghavan

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across various fields, yet their increasing use raises critical security concerns. This article reviews recent literature addressing key issues in LLM security, with a focus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Benji Peng , Keyu Chen , Ming Li , Pohsun Feng , Ziqian Bi , Junyu Liu , Xinyuan Song , Qian Niu

IoT devices are increasingly utilized in critical infrastructure, enterprises, and households. There are several sophisticated cyber-attacks that have been reported and many networks have proven vulnerable to both active and passive attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Ayyoob Hamza , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman