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AI browsing agents are an emerging class of AI-powered bots capable of autonomously navigating websites. Unlike traditional web bots, AI browsing agents typically operate using real browsers and perform everyday tasks, making them difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ethan Wang , Zubair Shafiq , Yash Vekaria

With the rapid development of internet technologies, social networks, and other related areas, user authentication becomes more and more important to protect the data of users. Password authentication is one of the widely used methods to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Lifeng Han

The web is the prominent way information is exchanged in the 21st century. However, ensuring web-based information is accessible is complicated, particularly with web applications that rely on JavaScript and other technologies to deliver…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Trevor Bostic , Jeff Stanley , John Higgins , Rachael L. Bradley-Montgomery , Justin F. Brunelle , Daniel Chudnov

With the increasing number of services in the internet, companies intranets, and home networks: service discovery becomes an integral part of modern networked system. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of major solutions for service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-01 Bendaoud Karim Talal , Merzougui Rachid

Over the years security experts in the field of Information Technology have had a tough time in making passwords secure. This paper studies and takes a careful look at this issue from the angle of philosophy and cognitive science. We have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-15 M Atif Qureshi , Arjumand Younus , Arslan Ahmed Khan

The biometric system is an automatic identification and authentication system that uses unique biological traits, such as fingerprint, face, iris, voice, retina, etc. of an individual. Of all these systems, fingerprint biometric system is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mahesh Joshi , Bodhisatwa Mazumdar , Somnath Dey

Phishing is the combination of social engineering and technical exploits designed to convince a victim to provide personal information, usually for the monetary gain of the attacker. Phishing has become the most popular practice among the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Aanchal Jain , Vineet Richariya

Background- This paper summarizes the state-of-the-art and applications based on online handwritting signals with special emphasis on e-security and e-health fields. Methods- In particular, we focus on the main achievements and challenges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy , Julian Fierrez , Miguel A. Ferrer , Moises Diaz , Ruben Tolosana , Réjean Plamondon

Tor is an anonymity network used by millions of people every day to evade censorship and protect their browsing activity from privacy threats such as mass surveillance. Unfortunately, Tor has been shown to be vulnerable to website…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Ethan Witwer

Transfer learning has become a common solution to address training data scarcity in practice. It trains a specified student model by reusing or fine-tuning early layers of a well-trained teacher model that is usually publicly available.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Cong Wang , Yang Zhang

Website Fingerprinting (WFP) uses deep learning models to classify encrypted network traffic to infer visited websites. While historically effective, prior methods fail to generalize to modern web environments. Single-page applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Chuxu Song , Dheekshith Dev Manohar Mekala , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Websites are capable of learning a wide range of information about the platform on which a browser is executing. One major source of such information is the set of standardised Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided within the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Zhaoyi Fan

While much current web privacy research focuses on browser fingerprinting, the boring fact is that the majority of current third-party web tracking is conducted using traditional, persistent-state identifiers. One possible explanation for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jordan Jueckstock , Peter Snyder , Shaown Sarker , Alexandros Kapravelos , Benjamin Livshits

Network embedding assigns nodes in a network to low-dimensional representations and effectively preserves the network structure. Recently, a significant amount of progresses have been made toward this emerging network analysis paradigm. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Peng Cui , Xiao Wang , Jian Pei , Wenwu Zhu

Passive operating system fingerprinting reveals valuable information to the defenders of heterogeneous private networks; at the same time, attackers can use fingerprinting to reconnoiter networks, so defenders need obfuscation techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Blake Anderson , David McGrew

We demonstrate how the multitude of sensors on a smartphone can be used to construct a reliable hardware fingerprint of the phone. Such a fingerprint can be used to de-anonymize mobile devices as they connect to web sites, and as a second…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Hristo Bojinov , Yan Michalevsky , Gabi Nakibly , Dan Boneh

Shoulder surfing is an attack vector widely recognized as a real threat - enough to warrant researchers dedicating a considerable effort toward designing novel authentication methods to be shoulder surfing resistant. Despite a multitude of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Leon Bošnjak , Boštjan Brumen

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

Gender is an important demographic attribute of people. This paper provides a survey of human gender recognition in computer vision. A review of approaches exploiting information from face and whole body (either from a still image or gait…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-04-10 Choon Boon Ng , Yong Haur Tay , Bok Min Goi

Although the security benefits of domain name encryption technologies such as DNS over TLS (DoT), DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) are clear, their positive impact on user privacy is weakened by--the still exposed--IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Nguyen Phong Hoang , Arian Akhavan Niaki , Phillipa Gill , Michalis Polychronakis