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On today's Web, users trade access to their private data for content and services. Advertising sustains the business model of many websites and applications. Efficient and successful advertising relies on predicting users' actions and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Silvia Puglisi , David Rebollo-Monedero , Jordi Forné

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

This paper introduces a novel attack vector that leverages website cloaking techniques to compromise autonomous web-browsing agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs). As these agents become more prevalent, their unique and often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shaked Zychlinski

The challenge of WAD (web attack detection) is growing as hackers continuously refine their methods to evade traditional detection. Deep learning models excel in handling complex unknown attacks due to their strong generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Lijia Shi , Shihao Dong

With web applications becoming a preferred method of presenting graphical user interfaces to users, software vulnerabilities affecting web applications are becoming more and more prevalent and devastating. Some of these vulnerabilities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Michael Flanders

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is pervasively exploited in training high-quality upstream encoders with a large amount of unlabeled data. However, it is found to be susceptible to backdoor attacks merely via polluting a small portion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Sizai Hou , Songze Li , Duanyi Yao

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

Recently, unsupervised adversarial training (AT) has been highlighted as a means of achieving robustness in models without any label information. Previous studies in unsupervised AT have mostly focused on implementing self-supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Minseon Kim , Hyeonjeong Ha , Sooel Son , Sung Ju Hwang

Web-TLR is a Web verification engine that is based on the well-established Rewriting Logic--Maude/LTLR tandem for Web system specification and model-checking. In Web-TLR, Web applications are expressed as rewrite theories that can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-12 María Alpuente , Demis Ballis , Javier Espert , Francisco Frechina , Daniel Romero

Deep learning models for image classification have become standard tools in recent years. A well known vulnerability of these models is their susceptibility to adversarial examples. These are generated by slightly altering an image of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Haim Fisher , Moni Shahar , Yehezkel S. Resheff

Browser fingerprinting is a stateless tracking technique that attempts to combine information exposed by multiple different web APIs to create a unique identifier for tracking users across the web. Over the last decade, trackers have abused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami , Umar Iqbal , Zubair Shafiq

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has numerous applications in the real world thanks to its outstanding ability in quickly adapting to the surrounding environments. Despite its great advantages, DRL is susceptible to adversarial attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Inaam Ilahi , Muhammad Usama , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Umar Janjua , Ala Al-Fuqaha , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we introduce Clid, a Transport Layer Security (TLS) client identification tool based on unsupervised learning on domain names in the server name indication (SNI) field. Clid aims to provide some information on a wide range of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Ihyun Nam , Gerry Wan

Machine learning models have made many decision support systems to be faster, more accurate, and more efficient. However, applications of machine learning in network security face a more disproportionate threat of active adversarial attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Olakunle Ibitoye , Rana Abou-Khamis , Mohamed el Shehaby , Ashraf Matrawy , M. Omair Shafiq

In this paper we propose a protocol that can be used to covertly send a distress signal through a seemingly normal webserver, even if the adversary is monitoring both the network and the user's device. This allows a user to call for help…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Hayyu Imanda , Kasper Rasmussen

Web-fraud is one of the most unpleasant features of today's Internet. Two well-known examples of fraudulent activities on the web are phishing and typosquatting. Their effects range from relatively benign (such as unwanted ads) to downright…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Mishari Al Mishari , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Karim El Defrawy , Gene Tsudik

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

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

Many password alternatives for web authentication proposed over the years, despite having different designs and objectives, all predominantly rely on the knowledge of some secret. This motivates us, herein, to provide the first detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Furkan Alaca , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

Recent studies have shown that large language models (LLMs) can infer private user attributes (e.g., age, location, gender) from user-generated text shared online, enabling rapid and large-scale privacy breaches. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dong Yan , Jian Liang , Ran He , Tieniu Tan