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Billions of people are sharing their daily life images on social media every day. However, their biometric information (e.g., fingerprint) could be easily stolen from these images. The threat of fingerprint leakage from social media raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Simin Li , Huangxinxin Xu , Jiakai Wang , Aishan Liu , Fazhi He , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Despite being more secure and strongly promoted, two-factor (2FA) or multi-factor (MFA) schemes either fail to protect against recent phishing threats such as real-time MITM, controls/relay MITM, malicious browser extension-based phishing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sneha Shukla , Gaurav Varshney , Shreya Singh , Swati Goel

The technological innovation towards 6G cellular networks introduces unprecedented capabilities for user equipment (UE) localization, but it also raises serious concerns about physical layer location privacy. This paper introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Lorenzo Italiano , Alireza Pourafzal , Hui Chen , Mattia Brambilla , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Monica Nicoli , Henk Wymeersch

Website fingerprinting (WF) is a well-know threat to users' web privacy. New internet standards, such as QUIC, include padding to support defenses against WF. Previous work only analyzes the effectiveness of defenses when users are behind a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Sandra Siby , Ludovic Barman , Christopher Wood , Marwan Fayed , Nick Sullivan , Carmela Troncoso

Millimeter Wave (mm-w), especially the 60 GHz band, has been receiving much attention as a key enabler for the 5G cellular networks. Beamforming (BF) is tremendously used with mm-w transmissions to enhance the link quality and overcome the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed , Kei Sakaguchi , Seiichi Sampei

Primary user emulation (PUE) attacks are an emerging threat to cognitive radio (CR) networks in which malicious users imitate the primary users (PUs) signals to limit the access of secondary users (SUs). Ascertaining the identity of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-27 Yaman Sharaf-Dabbagh , Walid Saad

Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting exploits hardware imperfections for device identification, but distinguishing between same-model devices remains challenging due to their minimal hardware variations. Existing datasets for RF…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zewei Guo , Zhen Jia , JinXiao Zhu , Wenhao Huang , Yin Chen

Bluetooth has become critical as many IoT devices are arriving in the market. Most of the current literature focusing on Bluetooth simulation concentrates on the network protocols' performances and completely neglects the privacy protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Abhishek Kumar Mishra , Aline Carneiro Viana , Nadjib Achir

By adding users as a new dimension to connectivity, on-body Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have gained considerable momentum in recent years, while raising serious privacy and safety issues. Existing approaches to authenticate these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Yong Huang , Wei Wang , Hao Wang , Tao Jiang , Qian Zhang

Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks exploit patterns in encrypted traffic to infer the websites visited by users, posing a serious threat to anonymous communication systems. Although recent WF techniques achieve over 90% accuracy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xinhao Deng , Jingyou Chen , Linxiao Yu , Yixiang Zhang , Zhongyi Gu , Changhao Qiu , Xiyuan Zhao , Ke Xu , Qi Li

Wireless radio channels are known to contain information about the surrounding propagation environment, which can be extracted using established wireless sensing methods. Thus, today's ubiquitous wireless devices are attractive targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Paul Staat , Simon Mulzer , Stefan Roth , Veelasha Moonsamy , Markus Heinrichs , Rainer Kronberger , Aydin Sezgin , Christof Paar

Along with the development of internet of things and pervasive computing, researchers are increasingly focusing on server-less RFID authentication and searching protocols, which utilize mobile RFID readers. However, revealing privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-01 Wei Xie , Chen Zhang , Quan Zhang , Chaojing Tang

Fingerprint recognition systems are widely deployed for authentication and forensic applications, but the security of stored fingerprint data remains a critical vulnerability. While many systems avoid storing raw fingerprint images in favor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yaniv Hacmon , Keren Gorelik , Gilad Gressel , Yisroel Mirsky

Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) make use of intrinsic manufacturing variations in memory cells to derive device-unique responses. Employing such hardware-rooted fingerprints for authentication, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Florian Lehn , Pascal Ahr , Hans D. Schotten

Deep-learning-based device fingerprinting has recently been recognized as a key enabler for automated network access authentication. Its robustness to impersonation attacks due to the inherent difficulty of replicating physical features is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Bechir Hamdaoui , Abdurrahman Elmaghbub

Radio-frequency identification(RFID) technology is widely applied in daily human life. The RFID cards are seen everywhere, from entrance guard to consumption. The information security of RFID cards, such as data confidentiality, tag…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Zheng Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Probe Requests are Wi-Fi management frames periodically sent by devices during network discovery. Tracking Probe Requests over time offers insights into movement patterns, traffic flows, and behavior trends, which are keys in applications…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Giovanni Baccichet , Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi , Matteo Cesana

Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Tong Xin , Bin Guo , Zhu Wang , Mingyang Li , Zhiwen Yu

Comparing to well protected data frames, Wi-Fi management frames (MFs) are extremely vulnerable to various attacks. Since MFs are transmitted without encryption, attackers can forge them easily. Such attacks can be detected in cooperative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Zhiping Jiang , Jizhong Zhao , Xiang-Yang Li , JinSong Han , Wei Xi

Previous contact tracing systems required the users to perform many manual actions, such as installing smartphone applications, joining wireless networks, or carrying custom user devices. This increases the barrier to entry and lowers the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Brosnan Yuen , Yifeng Bie , Duncan Cairns , Geoffrey Harper , Jason Xu , Charles Chang , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu