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Fingerprint authentication is a popular security mechanism for smartphones and laptops. However, its adoption in web and cloud environments has been limited due to privacy concerns over storing and processing biometric data on servers. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hyunmin Choi , Simon Woo , Hyoungshick Kim

Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the technological advancements of the twenty-first century which can improve living standards. However, it also imposes new types of security challenges, including device authentication, traffic types…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Debashish Roy , Pg Emeroylariffion Abas

This work addresses JavaScript malware detection to enhance client-side web application security with a behavior-based system. The ability to detect malicious JavaScript execution sequences is a critical problem in modern web security as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Pedro Pereira , José Gonçalves , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Targeted attacks against network infrastructure are notoriously difficult to guard against. In the case of communication networks, such attacks can leave users vulnerable to censorship and surveillance, even when cryptography is used. Much…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Edward L. Platt , Daniel M. Romero

Web tracking (WT) systems are advanced technologies used to monitor and analyze online user behavior. Initially focused on HTML and static webpages, these systems have evolved with the proliferation of IoT, edge computing, and Big Data,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Theofanis Tasoulas , Alexandros Gazis , Aggeliki Tsohou

The non-intrusive nature and high accuracy of face recognition algorithms have led to their successful deployment across multiple applications ranging from border access to mobile unlocking and digital payments. However, their vulnerability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Nilay Sanghvi , Sushant Kumar Singh , Akshay Agarwal , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Multi-bit watermarking (MW) has been designed to enhance resistance against watermarking attacks, such as signal processing operations and geometric distortions. Various benchmark tools exist to assess this robustness through simulated…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Seung-Hun Nam , Jihyeon Kang , Daesik Kim , Namhyuk Ahn , Wonhyuk Ahn

In recent year, tremendous strides have been made in face detection thanks to deep learning. However, most published face detectors deteriorate dramatically as the faces become smaller. In this paper, we present the Small Faces Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shi Luo , Xiongfei Li , Rui Zhu , Xiaoli Zhang

Website fingerprinting is an attack that uses size and timing characteristics of encrypted downloads to identify targeted websites. Since this can defeat the privacy goals of anonymity networks such as Tor, many algorithms to defend against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ethan Witwer , James Holland , Nicholas Hopper

Users' website browsing history contains sensitive information, like health conditions, political interests, financial situations, etc. Some recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of inferring website fingerprints based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Han Wang

Cryptographic protocols have been widely used to protect the user's privacy and avoid exposing private information. QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections), including the version originally designed by Google (GQUIC) and the version…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Pengwei Zhan , Liming Wang , Yi Tang

In response to the rising threat of the face morphing attack, this paper introduces and explores the potential of Video-based Morphing Attack Detection (V-MAD) systems in real-world operational scenarios. While current morphing attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Guido Borghi , Annalisa Franco , Nicolò Di Domenico , Matteo Ferrara , Davide Maltoni

The wide deployment of Face Recognition (FR) systems poses privacy risks. One countermeasure is adversarial attack, deceiving unauthorized malicious FR, but it also disrupts regular identity verification of trusted authorizers, exacerbating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yunming Zhang , Dengpan Ye , Caiyun Xie , Sipeng Shen , Ziyi Liu , Jiacheng Deng , Long Tang

Face Recognition Systems (FRS) are vulnerable to various attacks performed directly and indirectly. Among these attacks, face morphing attacks are highly potential in deceiving automatic FRS and human observers and indicate a severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Jag Mohan Singh , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Prior measurement studies on browser fingerprinting have unfortunately largely excluded Web Audio API-based fingerprinting in their analysis. We address this issue by conducting the first systematic study of effectiveness of web audio…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Shekhar Chalise , Phani Vadrevu

Graphs of developer networks are important for software engineering research and practice. For these graphs to realistically represent the networks, accurate developer identities are imperative. We aim to identify developer identity errors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Sadika Amreen , Audris Mockus , Chris Bogart , Yuxia Zhang , Russell Zaretzki

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

Face recognition (FR) systems have demonstrated outstanding verification performance, suggesting suitability for real-world applications ranging from photo tagging in social media to automated border control (ABC). In an advanced FR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Fatemeh Vakhshiteh , Ahmad Nickabadi , Raghavendra Ramachandra

Deep-learning-based identity management systems, such as face authentication systems, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. However, existing attacks are typically designed for single-task purposes, which means they are tailored to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Hanrui Wang , Shuo Wang , Cunjian Chen , Massimo Tistarelli , Zhe Jin

The use of the un-indexed web, commonly known as the deep web and dark web, to commit or facilitate criminal activity has drastically increased over the past decade. The dark web is an in-famously dangerous place where all kinds of criminal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Mohamed Chahine Ghanem , Patrick Mulvihill , Karim Ouazzane , Ramzi Djemai , Dipo Dunsin