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How easy is it to uniquely identify a person based solely on their web browsing behavior? Here we show that when people navigate the Web, their online traces produce fingerprints that identify them. Merely the four most visited web domains…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Marcos Oliveira , Junran Yang , Daniel Griffiths , Denis Bonnay , Juhi Kulshrestha

Digital media is the need of a people now a day as the alternate of paper media.As the technology grown up digital media required protection while transferring through internet or others mediums.Watermarking techniques have been developed…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2014-07-18 Lalit Kumar Saini , Vishal Shrivastava

As the Internet help us cross cultural border by providing different information, plagiarism issue is bound to arise. As a result, plagiarism detection becomes more demanding in overcoming this issue. Different plagiarism detection tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Chow Kok Kent , Naomie Salim

Prior measurement studies on browser fingerprinting have unfortunately largely excluded Web Audio API-based fingerprinting in their analysis. We address this issue by conducting the first systematic study of effectiveness of web audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shekhar Chalise , Phani Vadrevu

This paper presents a systematic evaluation of the privacy behaviors and attributes of eight recent, popular browser agents. Browser agents are software that automate Web browsing using large language models and ancillary tooling. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alisha Ukani , Hamed Haddadi , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Peter Snyder

We present a simple yet potentially devastating and hard-to-detect threat, called Gummy Browsers, whereby the browser fingerprinting information can be collected and spoofed without the victim's awareness, thereby compromising the privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Zengrui Liu , Prakash Shrestha , Nitesh Saxena

As the use of web browsers continues to grow, the potential for cybercrime and web-related criminal activities also increases. Digital forensic investigators must understand how different browsers function and the critical areas to consider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Rishal Ravikesh Chand , Neeraj Anand Sharma , Muhammad Ashad Kabir

The area of Handwritten Signature Verification has been broadly researched in the last decades, but remains an open research problem. The objective of signature verification systems is to discriminate if a given signature is genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Luiz G. Hafemann , Robert Sabourin , Luiz S. Oliveira

Formal methods are, in principle, suited for supporting the recent paradigm of privacy by design, but no overview is available that summarizes which particular approaches have been investigated, for which application domains they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Sibylle Schupp

Smart homes are increasingly populated with heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices that interact continuously with users and the environment. This diversity introduces critical challenges in device identification, authentication,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Eduardo Baena , Han Yang , Dimitrios Koutsonikolas , Israat Haque

In recent years, the study of complex networks has received a lot of attention. Real systems have gained importance in scientific publications, despite of an important drawback: the difficulty of retrieving and manage such great quantity of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-10-29 Massimiliano Zanin

We measure how effective Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are at protecting users from website fingerprinting. Our measurements use both experimental and observational methods. Experimental methods allow control, precision, and use on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Amit Datta , Jianan Lu , Michael Carl Tschantz

This paper is a survey discussing Information Retrieval concepts, methods, and applications. It goes deep into the document and query modelling involved in IR systems, in addition to pre-processing operations such as removing stop words and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Youssef Bassil

Fingerprints are popular among the biometric based systems due to ease of acquisition, uniqueness and availability. Nowadays it is used in smart phone security, digital payment and digital locker. Fingerprint recognition technology has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Kim JuSong , Ri IlYong

We examine WebRTC's suitability as a means of Internet censorship circumvention. WebRTC is a framework and suite of protocols for peer-to-peer communication between web browsers. We analyze the implementation differences in instantiations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-31 David Fifield , Mia Gil Epner

Internet users are vulnerable to privacy attacks despite the use of encryption. Webpage fingerprinting, an attack that analyzes encrypted traffic, can identify the webpages visited by a user in a given website. Recent research works have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Gargi Mitra , Prasanna Karthik Vairam , Sandip Saha , Nitin Chandrachoodan , V. Kamakoti

Web tracking is an omnipresent phenomenon in today's web, affecting users in their day-to-day lives. Filter lists and blockers were invented to detect trackers and to protect users. Due to limitations of said tools, researchers developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Wolf Rieder , Philip Raschke , Thomas Cory , Christian René Sechting , Aditya Kumar , Axel Küpper

Over the years, use of smartphones has come to dominate several areas, improving our lives, offering us convenience, and reshaping our daily work circumstances. Beyond traditional use for communication, they are used for many peripheral…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ashutosh Bhatiaa , Ankit AgrawalaAyush Bahugunaa , Kamlesh Tiwaria , K. Haribabua , Deepak Vishwakarmab

Cybersecurity is a very challenging topic of research nowadays, as digitalization increases the interaction of people, software and services on the Internet by means of technology devices and networks connected to it. The field is broad and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Nuno Oliveira , Norberto Sousa , Isabel Praça

Web crawlers visit internet applications, collect data, and learn about new web pages from visited pages. Web crawlers have a long and interesting history. Early web crawlers collected statistics about the web. In addition to collecting…