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Modern web browsers have effectively become the new operating system for business applications, yet their security posture is often under-scrutinized. This paper presents a novel, comprehensive Browser Security Posture Analysis…

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Nowadays, users are encouraged to activate across multiple online social networks simultaneously. Anchor link prediction, which aims to reveal the correspondence among different accounts of the same user across networks, has been regarded…

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The exposure of location data constitutes a significant privacy risk to users as it can lead to de-anonymization, the inference of sensitive information, and even physical threats. In this paper we present LPAuditor, a tool that conducts a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Kostas Drakonakis , Panagiotis Ilia , Sotiris Ioannidis , Jason Polakis

Today's geo-location estimation approaches are able to infer the location of a target image using its visual content alone. These approaches exploit visual matching techniques, applied to a large collection of background images with known…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Jaeyoung Choi , Martha Larson , Xinchao Li , Gerald Friedland , Alan Hanjalic

In the last decade, following the emergence of the mobile applications domain, the significance of location information has changed radically. Nowadays, location data not only is a key component of geospatial databases, but also a critical…

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A lack of awareness surrounding secure online behaviour can lead to end-users, and their personal details becoming vulnerable to compromise. This paper describes an ongoing research project in the field of usable security, examining the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Lynsay A. Shepherd , Jacqueline Archibald

The impact of localization systems in our daily lives is increasing. As next-generation networks will introduce hyperconnectivity with the emerging applications, this impact will undoubtedly further increase, proliferating the importance of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Caner Goztepe , Saliha Buyukcorak , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Halim Yanikomeroglu

A website browser cookie is a small file created by a web server upon visitation, which is placed in the user's browser directory to enhance the user's experience. However, first and third-party cookies have become a significant threat to…

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Protecting personal information privacy has become a controversial issue among online social network providers and users. Most social network providers have developed several techniques to decrease threats and risks to the users privacy.…

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We propose a concept for authorisation using the location of a mobile device and the enforcement of location-based policies. Mobile devices enhanced by Trusted Computing capabilities operate an autonomous and secure location trigger and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Andreas U. Schmidt , Nicolai Kuntze , Joerg Abendroth

Accurately analyzing and modeling online browsing behavior play a key role in understanding users and technology interactions. In this work, we design and conduct a user study to collect browsing data from 31 participants continuously for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yuliia Lut , Michael Wang , Elissa M. Redmiles , Rachel Cummings

User attributes, such as home location, are useful for many applications. Many researchers have been tackling how to estimate users' home locations using relationships among users. It is known that the home locations of certain users, such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Shiori Hironaka , Mitsuo Yoshida , Kyoji Umemura

In recent years we have witnessed a shift towards personalized, context-based applications and services for mobile device users. A key component of many of these services is the ability to infer the current location and predict the future…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Nir Sivan , Ron Bitton , Asaf Shabtai

Given that security threats and privacy breaches are com- monplace today, it is an important problem for one to know whether their device(s) are in a "good state of security", or is there a set of high- risk vulnerabilities that need to be…

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Disinformation is proliferating on the internet, and platforms are responding by attaching warnings to content. There is little evidence, however, that these warnings help users identify or avoid disinformation. In this work, we adapt…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Ben Kaiser , Jerry Wei , Eli Lucherini , Kevin Lee , J. Nathan Matias , Jonathan Mayer

This paper introduces a Machine Learning-Driven website Platform and Browser Extension designed to quickly enhance online security by providing real-time risk scoring and fraud detection for website legitimacy verification and consumer…

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Security situational awareness refers to identifying, mitigating, and preventing digital cyber threats by gathering information to understand the current situation. With awareness, the basis for decisions is present, particularly in complex…

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We present the first measurement of the user-effect and privacy impact of "Related Website Sets," a recent proposal to reduce browser privacy protections between two sites if those sites are related to each other. An assumption (both…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Stephen McQuistin , Peter Snyder , Hamed Haddadi , Gareth Tyson

Location data collection has become widespread with smart phones becoming ubiquitous. Smart phone apps often collect precise location data from users by offering \textit{free} services and then monetize it for advertising and marketing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Naman Awasthi , Saad Mohammad Abrar , Daniel Smolyak , Vanessa Frias-Martinez

It is important to design browser security and privacy alerts so as to maximise their value to the end user, and their efficacy in terms of communicating risk. We derived a list of design guidelines from the research literature by carrying…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Lynsay A. Shepherd , Karen Renaud