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Online Social Networking Sites attracted a massive number of users over the past decade but also raised privacy concerns with the amount of personal information disclosed. Studies have shown that 25% of the users are not aware of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Roba Darwish , Kambiz Ghazinour

Although there have been many solutions applied, the safety challenges related to the password security mechanism are not reduced. The reason for this is that while the means and tools to support password attacks are becoming more and more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Nguyen Hong Son , Ha Thanh Dung

The rapid increase in utilization of smart home technologies has introduced new paradigms to ensure the security and privacy of inhabitants. In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect and localize physical intrusions in indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Usama Shakoor , Muhammad Bilal Janjua , Muhammad Sohaib J. Solaija , Huseyin Arslan

The obstacles of each security system combined with the increase of cyber-attacks, negatively affect the effectiveness of network security management and rise the activities to be taken by the security staff and network administrators. So,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mamoon A. Al Jbaar , Adel Jalal Yousif , Qutaiba I. Ali

Ever since first mobile phones equipped with GPS came to the market, knowing the exact user location has become a holy grail of almost every service that lives in the digital world. Starting with the idea of location based services,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Iva Bojic , Emanuele Massaro , Alexander Belyi , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Carlo Ratti

The proliferation of smart home devices has increased convenience but also introduced cybersecurity risks for everyday users, as many devices lack robust security features. Intrusion Detection Systems are a prominent approach to detecting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Victor Jüttner , Charlotte S. Löffler , Erik Buchmann

Hashtag has emerged as a widely used concept of popular culture and campaigns, but its implications on people's privacy have not been investigated so far. In this paper, we present the first systematic analysis of privacy issues induced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Yang Zhang , Mathias Humbert , Tahleen Rahman , Cheng-Te Li , Jun Pang , Michael Backes

Social media has enabled users and organizations to obtain information about technology usage like software usage and even security feature usage. However, on the dark side it has also allowed an adversary to potentially exploit the users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Paulo Shakarian , Mika Armenta , Danielle Sanchez , Kiran Lakkaraju

We introduce LOCATHE (Location-Enhanced Authenticated Key Exchange), a generic protocol that pools location, user attributes, access policy and desired services into a multi-factor authentication, allowing two peers to establish a secure,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Marcos Portnoi , Chien-Chung Shen

Modern websites frequently use and embed third-party services to facilitate web development, connect to social media, or for monetization. This often introduces privacy issues as the inclusion of third-party services on a website can allow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Christine Utz , Sabrina Amft , Martin Degeling , Thorsten Holz , Sascha Fahl , Florian Schaub

Online social networks being extended to geographical space has resulted in large amount of user check-in data. Understanding check-ins can help to build appealing applications, such as location recommendation. In this paper, we propose…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Jun Pang , Yang Zhang

The study of approximate mechanism design for facility location problems has been in the center of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and economics for the last decades, largely due to its practical importance in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Hau Chan , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Bo Li , Minming Li , Chenhao Wang

As users increasingly introduce Internet-connected devices into their homes, having access to accurate and relevant cyber security information is a fundamental means of ensuring safe use. Given the paucity of information provided with many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Sarah Turner , Jason R. C. Nurse , Shujun Li

Locimetric authentication is a form of graphical authentication in which users validate their identity by selecting predetermined points on a predetermined image. Its primary advantage over the ubiquitous text-based approach stems from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Antonios Saravanos , Dongnanzi Zheng , Stavros Zervoudakis , Donatella Delfino

Predicting the future location of mobile objects reinforces location-aware services with proactive intelligence and helps businesses and decision-makers with better planning and near real-time scheduling in different applications such as…

With the advent of mobile computing, location-based services have recently gained popularity. Many applications use the location provenance of users, i.e., the chronological history of the users' location for purposes ranging from access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Ragib Hasan , Randal Burns

Websites have an inherent interest in steering user navigation in order to, for example, increase sales of specific products or categories, or to guide users towards specific information. In general, website administrators can use the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Florian Geigl , Kristina Lerman , Simon Walk , Markus Strohmaier , Denis Helic

Privacy is important for all individuals in everyday life. With emerging technologies, smartphones with AR, various social networking applications and artificial intelligence driven modes of surveillance, they tend to intrude privacy. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Priyam Rajkhowa , Pradipta Biswas

Recently, the problem of secure position-verification has been extensively analyzed in a formal notion where distant verifiers send encrypted challenge along with the decryption information to the prover. However, currently it is known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-02 Muhammad Nadeem

With the World Wide Web's ubiquity increase and the rapid development of various online businesses, the complexity of web sites grow. The analysis of web user's navigational pattern within a web site can provide useful information for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2008-03-07 Biswajit Biswal