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IoT devices have become popular targets for various network attacks due to their lack of industry-wide security standards. In this work, we focus on smart home IoT device identification and defending them against Distributed Denial of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Holden Gordon , Christopher Batula , Bhagyashri Tushir , Behnam Dezfouli , Yuhong Liu

Future IoT is expected to get ubiquitous connection and access in a global scale. In the meantime, with the empowered communications capability for IoT devices, IoT will evolve to be highly autonomous, even under the help from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Qinghe Du , Houbing Song , Xuejie Zhu

Privacy concerns and fears of unauthorized access in smart home devices often stem from misunderstandings about how data is collected, used, and protected. This study explores how AI-powered tools can offer innovative privacy protections…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wael Albayaydh , Ivan Flechais , Rui Zhao , Jood Albayaydh

Internet of Things (IoT) is very attractive because of its promises. However, it brings many challenges, mainly issues about privacy preserving and lightweight cryptography. Many schemes have been designed so far but none of them…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Ibou Sene , Abdoul Aziz Ciss , Oumar Niang

The rapid advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) have promoted a revolution in communication technology and offered various customer services. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been exploited to facilitate IoT operations and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ons Aouedi , Thai-Hoc Vu , Alessio Sacco , Dinh C. Nguyen , Kandaraj Piamrat , Guido Marchetto , Quoc-Viet Pham

Recent years have witnessed the increasing popularity of mobile devices (such as iphone) due to the convenience that it brings to human lives. On one hand, rich user profiling and behavior data (including per-app level, app-interaction…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Deguang Kong

With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, ensuring secure communications has become imperative. Due to their low cost and embedded nature, many of these devices operate with computational and energy constraints, neglecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 José Cecílio , Alan Oliveira de Sá , André Souto

Static "human data" faces inherent limitations: it is expensive to scale and bounded by the knowledge of its creators. Continuous learning from "experience data" - interactions between agents and their environments - promises to transcend…

The Internet of Things (IoT) describes a network infrastructure of identifiable things that share data through the Internet. A smart home is one of the applications for the Internet of Things. In a smart home, household appliances could be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Rihab Fahd Al-Mutawa , Fathy Albouraey Eassa

Voice-controlled smart speaker devices have gained a foothold in many modern households. Their prevalence combined with their intrusion into core private spheres of life has motivated research on security and privacy intrusions, especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Maliheh Shirvanian , Sebastian Meiser

Speaker recognition on household devices, such as smart speakers, features several challenges: (i) robustness across a vast number of heterogeneous domains (households), (ii) short utterances, (iii) possibly absent speaker labels of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Alexey Sholokhov , Xuechen Liu , Md Sahidullah , Tomi Kinnunen

Much has been written about privacy in the context of conversational and voice assistants. Yet, there have been remarkably few developments in terms of the actual privacy offered by these devices. But how much of this is due to the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Trung Dong Huynh , William Seymour , Luc Moreau , Jose Such

Over the last few years, a rapidly increasing number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems that adopt voice as the primary user input have emerged. These systems have been shown to be vulnerable to various types of voice spoofing attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Yuan Gong , Christian Poellabauer

Our work demonstrates a new set of silent reconnaissance attacks, which leverages the presence of commodity WiFi devices to track users inside private homes and offices, without compromising any WiFi network, data packets, or devices. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Yanzi Zhu , Zhujun Xiao , Yuxin Chen , Zhijing Li , Max Liu , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

This study investigates a primary inaudible attack vector on Amazon Alexa voice services using near ultrasound trojans and focuses on characterizing the attack surface and examining the practical implications of issuing inaudible voice…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Forrest McKee , David Noever

Internet of Things (IoT) systems are bundles of networked sensors and actuators that are deployed in an environment and act upon the sensory data that they receive. These systems, especially consumer electronics, have two main cooperating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Andrew Truelove , Farah Naz Chowdhury , Omprakash Gnawali , Mohammad Amin Alipour

There is growing adoption of smart devices such as digital locks with remote control and sophisticated authentication mechanisms. However, a lack of attention to device security and user-awareness beyond the primary function of these IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Steve Kerrison

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are typically designed to function in a secure, closed environment, making it difficult for users to comprehend devices' behaviors. This paper shows that a user can leverage side-channel information to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Wei Sun , Yuwei Xiao , Haojian Jin , Dinesh Bharadia

Understanding network traffic characteristics of IoT devices plays a critical role in improving both the performance and security of IoT devices, including IoT device identification, classification, and anomaly detection. Although a number…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Md Mainuddin , Zhenhai Duan , Yingfei Dong

Blockchain is a technology uniquely suited to support massive number of transactions and smart contracts within the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem, thanks to the decentralized accounting mechanism. In a blockchain network, the states of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Pietro Danzi , Anders Ellersgaard Kalør , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski