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Website fingerprinting enables an eavesdropper to determine which websites a user is visiting over an encrypted connection. State-of-the-art website fingerprinting (WF) attacks have demonstrated effectiveness even against Tor-protected…

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Recognizing pedestrian attributes is an important task in the computer vision community due to it plays an important role in video surveillance. Many algorithms have been proposed to handle this task. The goal of this paper is to review…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xiao Wang , Shaofei Zheng , Rui Yang , Aihua Zheng , Zhe Chen , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

We introduce the novel problem of benchmarking fraud detectors on private graph-structured data. Currently, many types of fraud are managed in part by automated detection algorithms that operate over graphs. We consider the scenario where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti , Nihar Shah , Zhiwei Steven Wu

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

The primary purpose of a fingerprint recognition system is to ensure a reliable and accurate user authentication, but the security of the recognition system itself can be jeopardized by spoof attacks. This study addresses the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Tarang Chugh , Kai Cao , Anil K. Jain

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

In the growing world of the internet, the number of ways to obtain crucial data such as passwords and login credentials, as well as sensitive personal information has expanded. Page impersonation, often known as phishing, is one method of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Aman Rangapur , Tarun Kanakam , Dhanvanthini P

Recent works showed that websites can detect browser extensions that users install and websites they are logged into. This poses significant privacy risks, since extensions and Web logins that reflect user's behavior, can be used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Gabor Gyorgy Gulyas , Doliere Francis Some , Nataliia Bielova , Claude Castelluccia

Online tracking has become of increasing concern in recent years, however our understanding of its extent to date has been limited to snapshots from web crawls. Previous at-tempts to measure the tracking ecosystem, have been done using…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Arjaldo Karaj , Sam Macbeth , Rémi Berson , Josep M. Pujol

In recent decades, due to the emerging requirements of computation acceleration, cloud FPGAs have become popular in public clouds. Major cloud service providers, e.g. AWS and Microsoft Azure have provided FPGA computing resources in their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Chongzhou Fang , Ning Miao , Han Wang , Jiacheng Zhou , Tyler Sheaves , John M. Emmert , Avesta Sasan , Houman Homayoun

As large language models are increasingly deployed in sensitive environments, fingerprinting attacks pose significant privacy and security risks. We present a study of LLM fingerprinting from both offensive and defensive perspectives. Our…

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As third-party cookie blocking is becoming the norm in browsers, advertisers and trackers have started to use first-party cookies for tracking. We conduct a differential measurement study on 10K websites with third-party cookies allowed and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shaoor Munir , Sandra Siby , Umar Iqbal , Steven Englehardt , Zubair Shafiq , Carmela Troncoso

Web Application finger printing is a quintessential part of the Information Gathering phase of (ethical) hacking. It allows narrowing down the specifics instead of looking for all clues. Also an application that has been correctly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-01 Karthik R , Raghavendra Karthik , Pramod S , Sowmya Kamath

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

Even though a few initial works have shown on small sets of data some level of bias in the performance of fingerprint recognition technology with respect to certain demographic groups, there is still not sufficient evidence to understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Javier Galbally , Aleksandrs Cepilovs , Ramon Blanco-Gonzalo , Gillian Ormiston , Oscar Miguel-Hurtado , Istvan Sz. Racz

In this paper we propose a novel fingerprint indexing approach for speeding up in the fingerprint recognition system. What kind of features are used for indexing and how to employ the extracted features for searching are crucial for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Gwang-Il Ri , Chol-Gyun Ri , Su-Rim Ji

Password-based authentication faces various security and usability issues. Password managers help alleviate some of these issues by enabling users to manage their passwords effectively. However, malicious client-side scripts and browser…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Anuj Gautam , Tarun Kumar Yadav , Kent Seamons , Scott Ruoti

Recent advances confirm that large language models (LLMs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. However, due to the resource-intensive nature of training LLMs from scratch, it is urgent and crucial to protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhiguang Yang , Hanzhou Wu

Protecting users' privacy over the Internet is of great importance; however, it becomes harder and harder to maintain due to the increasing complexity of network protocols and components. Therefore, investigating and understanding how data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Amir Hossein Khajepour , Amirmohammad Ziaei , Amir Ali Gatmiri , Ali Taheri

Given the nature of mobile devices and unlock procedures, unlock authentication is a prime target for credential leaking via shoulder surfing, a form of an observation attack. While the research community has investigated solutions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Adam J. Aviv , John T. Davin , Flynn Wolf , Ravi Kuber