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Language model (LM) agents that act on users' behalf for personal tasks (e.g., replying emails) can boost productivity, but are also susceptible to unintended privacy leakage risks. We present the first study on people's capacity to oversee…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhiping Zhang , Bingcan Guo , Tianshi Li

As Mixed Reality (MR) devices become increasingly popular across industries, they raise significant privacy and ethical concerns due to their capacity to collect extensive data on users and their environments. This paper highlights the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Marvin Strauss , Viktorija Paneva , Florian Alt , Stefan Schneegass

While communication strategies of Large Language Models (LLMs) are crucial for human-LLM interactions, they can also be weaponized to elicit private information, yet such stealthy attacks remain under-explored. This paper introduces the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuning Zhang , Jiaqi Bai , Linzhi Wang , Shixuan Li , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

A simple and practical method for achieving everlasting privacy in e-voting systems, without relying on advanced cryptographic techniques, is to use anonymous voter credentials. The simplicity of this approach may, however, create some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tomasz Truderung

Cyber attacks such as phishing, IRS scams, etc., still are successful in fooling Internet users. Users are the last line of defense against these attacks since attackers seem to always find a way to bypass security systems. Understanding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Shahryar Baki , Rakesh M. Verma , Arjun Mukherjee , Omprakash Gnawali

Part of what makes the web successful is that anyone can publish content and browsers maintain certain safety guarantees. For example, it's safe to travel between links and make other trust decisions on the web because users can always…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Diane Hosfelt , Jessica Outlaw , Tyesha Snow , Sara Carbonneau

Common problems affecting modern email usage include spam, lack of sender verification, lack of built-in security and lack of message integrity. This paper looks at how we can utilise the extensible messaging and presence protocol also…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Martin A. Coleman

In this paper, a workflow for designing a bot using Robotic Process Automation (RPA), associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is used for information extraction, classification, etc., is proposed. The bot is equipped with many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Arpit Khare , Sudhakar Singh , Richa Mishra , Shiv Prakash , Pratibha Dixit

Nowadays, privacy has become a very serious issue with smart and mobile platforms. Users tend to allow intrusive apps access much sensible information without really knowing the potential threats. To solve this issue several solutions (e.g.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Alan Ferrari , Silvia Giordano

End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging is an essential first step in providing message confidentiality. Unfortunately, all security guarantees of end-to-end encryption are lost when keys or plaintext are disclosed, either due to device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Anrin Chakraborti , Darius Suciu , Radu Sion

Over the last two decades, the scale and complexity of the Internet and its associated technologies built on the World Wide Web has grown exponentially with access to Internet as a facility occupying a prime place with other amenities of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-12-23 B H Priyanka , Ravi Prakash

Spam messages muddle up users inbox, consume network resources, and build up DDoS attacks, spread malware. Our goal is to present a definite figure about the characteristics of spam and spam vulnerable email accounts. These evaluations help…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Cynthia Dhinakaran , Dhinaharan Nagamalai , Jae Kwang Lee

In the era of large-scale internet scanning, misconfigured websites are a frequent cause of data leaks and security incidents. Previous research has investigated sending automated email notifications to operators of insecure or compromised…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Max Maass , Marc-Pascal Clement , Matthias Hollick

In this paper, the privacy of wireless transmissions is improved through the use of an efficient technique termed dynamic directional modulation (DDM), and is subsequently assessed in terms of the measure of information leakage. Recently, a…

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) based on cryptographic protocols has emerged as a promising paradigm to protect user data privacy in cloud-based machine learning services. While it achieves formal privacy protection, PPML often…

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Individuals increasingly face an overwhelming number of tasks and decisions. To cope with the new reality, there is growing research interest in developing intelligent agents that can effectively assist people across various aspects of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Meihe Xu , Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux , Arianna Rossi

The steady reports of privacy invasions online paints a picture of the Internet growing into a more dangerous place. This is supported by reports of the potential scale for online harms facilitated by the mass deployment of online…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Kovila P. L. Coopamootoo

The proliferation of online biometric authentication has necessitated security requirements of biometric templates. The existing secure biometric authentication schemes feature a server-centric model, where a service provider maintains a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Kai Zhou , Jian Ren

Passwords are undoubtedly the most dominant user authentication mechanism on the web today. Although they are inexpensive and easy-to-use, security concerns of password-based authentication are serious. Phishing and theft of password…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Klaudia Krawiecka , Arseny Kurnikov , Andrew Paverd , Mohammad Mannan , N. Asokan

WebView applications are widely used in mobile applications to display web content directly within the app, enhancing user engagement by eliminating the need to open an external browser and providing a seamless experience. Progressive Web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Sajib Talukder , Nur Imtiazul Haque , Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar