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While smartphone usage become more and more pervasive, people start also asking to which extent such devices can be maliciously exploited as "tracking devices". The concern is not only related to an adversary taking physical or remote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Mauro Conti , Luigi V. Mancini , Riccardo Spolaor , Nino V. Verde

In the never-ending quest for tools that enable an ISP to smooth troubleshooting and improve awareness of network behavior, very much effort has been devoted in the collection of data by active and passive measurement at the data plane and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-09 Marco Di Bartolomeo , Valentino Di Donato , Maurizio Pizzonia , Claudio Squarcella , Massimo Rimondini

Contemporary mobile applications (apps) are designed to track, use, and share users' data, often without their consent, which results in potential privacy and transparency issues. To investigate whether mobile apps have always been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Saad Sajid Hashmi , Nazar Waheed , Gioacchino Tangari , Muhammad Ikram , Stephen Smith

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming commodity components of larger software systems. This poses natural security and privacy problems: poisoned data retrieved from one component can change the model's behavior and compromise…

The IoT (Internet of Things) technology has been widely adopted in recent years and has profoundly changed the people's daily lives. However, in the meantime, such a fast-growing technology has also introduced new privacy issues, which need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuaike Dong , Zhou Li , Di Tang , Jiongyi Chen , Menghan Sun , Kehuan Zhang

A large number of URLs are made public by various platforms for security analysis, archiving, and paste sharing -- such as VirusTotal, URLScan.io, Hybrid Analysis, the Wayback Machine, and RedHunt. These services may unintentionally expose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Tarek Ramadan , AbdelRahman Abdou , Mohammad Mannan , Amr Youssef

We conduct a large-scale measurement of developers' insecure practices leading to mini-app to super-app authentication bypass, among which hard-coding developer secrets for such authentication is a major contributor. We also analyze the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Supraja Baskaran , Lianying Zhao , Mohammad Mannan , Amr Youssef

Leakages are a major risk in water distribution networks as they cause water loss and increase contamination risks. Leakage detection is a difficult task due to the complex dynamics of water distribution networks. In particular, small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Valerie Vaquet , Fabian Hinder , Barbara Hammer

We systematically evaluate the quality of widely used adversarial safety datasets from two perspectives: in isolation and in practice. In isolation, we examine how well these datasets reflect real-world adversarial attacks based on three…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shahriar Golchin , Marc Wetter

Information flow analysis prevents secret or untrusted data from flowing into public or trusted sinks. Existing mechanisms cover a wide array of options, ranging from lightweight taint analysis to heavyweight information flow control that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Cristian-Alexandru Staicu , Daniel Schoepe , Musard Balliu , Michael Pradel , Andrei Sabelfeld

While smartphones and WiFi networks are bringing many positive changes to people's lives, they are susceptible to traffic analysis attacks, which infer user's private information from encrypted traffic. Existing traffic analysis attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaoguang Yang , Yong Huang , Junli Guo , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang

With millions of apps that can be downloaded from official or third-party market, Android has become one of the most popular mobile platforms today. These apps help people in all kinds of ways and thus have access to lots of user's data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xiangyu Liu , Zhe Zhou , Wenrui Diao , Zhou Li , Kehuan Zhang

Android applications collecting data from users must protect it according to the current legal frameworks. Such data protection has become even more important since the European Union rolled out the General Data Protection Regulation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mugdha Khedkar , Eric Bodden

Differential privacy is a rigorous definition for privacy that guarantees that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this work, we develop new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Vassilis Digalakis , George N. Karystinos , Minos N. Garofalakis

As data privacy continues to be a crucial human-right concern as recognized by the UN, regulatory agencies have demanded developers obtain user permission before accessing user-sensitive data. Mainly through the use of privacy policies…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Md Rashedur Rahman , Elizabeth Miller , Moinul Hossain , Aisha Ali-Gombe

Many network services and tools (e.g. network monitors, malware-detection systems, routing and billing policy enforcement modules in ISPs) depend on identifying the type of traffic that passes through the network. With the widespread use of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Shahbaz Rezaei , Bryce Kroencke , Xin Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains including healthcare, legal services, and confidential communications, where privacy is paramount. This paper introduces Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Geoff McDonald , Jonathan Bar Or

There is growing concern about how personal data are used when users grant applications direct access to the sensors of their mobile devices. In fact, high resolution temporal data generated by motion sensors reflect directly the activities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

Over the past years, literature has shown that attacks exploiting the microarchitecture of modern processors pose a serious threat to the privacy of mobile phone users. This is because applications leave distinct footprints in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Berk Gulmezoglu , Andreas Zankl , M. Caner Tol , Saad Islam , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

The Internet traffic data produced by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are collected by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and device manufacturers, and often shared with their third parties to maintain and enhance user services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Su Wang , Keyang Yu , Qi Li , Dong Chen