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Domain probe lists--used to determine which URLs to probe for Web censorship--play a critical role in Internet censorship measurement studies. Indeed, the size and accuracy of the domain probe list limits the set of censored pages that can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Jenny Tang , Leo Alvarez , Arjun Brar , Nguyen Phong Hoang , Nicolas Christin

Modern browsers give access to several attributes that can be collected to form a browser fingerprint. Although browser fingerprints have primarily been studied as a web tracking tool, they can contribute to improve the current state of web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Nampoina Andriamilanto , Tristan Allard , Gaëtan Le Guelvouit , Alexandre Garel

Passwords remain the primary authentication method, yet user-created passwords are often the weakest due to the security-usability trade-off. Although AI-based password generators are emerging, little is known about their effectiveness and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Duru Paker , Suleyman Ozdel , Enkelejda Kasneci

Although security questions are still widely adopted, they still have several limitations. Previous research found that using system-generated information to answer security questions could be more secure than users' own answers. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Nicholas Micallef , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

There continue to be numerous breaches publicised pertaining to cyber security despite security practices being applied within industry for many years. This article is intended to be the first in a number of articles as research into cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Mark Evans , Leandros A. Maglaras , Ying He , Helge Janicke

As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents in high-stakes settings, ensuring that they reliably follow user-defined rules has become a critical safety concern. To this end, we study whether language models exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dylan Sam , Alexander Robey , Andy Zou , Matt Fredrikson , J. Zico Kolter

As the adoption of smart devices continues to permeate all aspects of our lives, user privacy concerns have become more pertinent than ever. Privacy policies outline the data handling practices of these devices. Prior work in the domains of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Aamir Hamid , Hemanth Reddy Samidi , Tim Finin , Primal Pappachan , Roberto Yus

Users often make security- and privacy-relevant decisions without a clear understanding of the rules that govern safe behavior. We introduce pedagogical friction, a design approach that inserts brief, instructional interactions at the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Qian Ma , Yingfan Zhou , Shubhang Kaushik , Aamod Joshi , Aditya Majumdar , Noah Apthorpe , Yan Shvartzshnaider , Sarah Rajtmajer , Brett Frischmann

In this paper, we present a novel vision of large scale of empirical password sets available and improve the understanding of passwords by revealing their interconnections and considering the security on a level of the whole password set…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Xiujia Guo , Haibo Chen , Xuqin Liu , Xiangyu Xu , Zhong Chen

Accurately analyzing and modeling online browsing behavior play a key role in understanding users and technology interactions. In this work, we design and conduct a user study to collect browsing data from 31 participants continuously for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yuliia Lut , Michael Wang , Elissa M. Redmiles , Rachel Cummings

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

Generative AI technologies, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), are rapidly being adopted across industry, academia, and government sectors, owing to their remarkable capabilities in natural language processing. However, despite…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Vivek Vaidya , Aditya Patwardhan , Ashish Kundu

Nowadays, user authentication is one of the important topics in information security. Strong textbased password schemes could provide with certain degree of security. However, the fact that strong passwords are difficult to memorize often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Farnaz Towhidi , Maslin Masrom

These days, cyber-criminals target humans rather than machines since they try to accomplish their malicious intentions by exploiting the weaknesses of end users. Thus, human vulnerabilities pose a serious threat to the security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Dimitra Papatsaroucha , Yannis Nikoloudakis , Ioannis Kefaloukos , Evangelos Pallis , Evangelos K. Markakis

As e-commerce continues to expand, the urgency for stronger privacy and security measures becomes increasingly critical, particularly on platforms frequented by younger users who are often less aware of potential risks. In our analysis of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Urvashi Kishnani , Sanchari Das

Web measurements are a well-established methodology for assessing the security and privacy landscape of the Internet. However, existing top lists of popular websites are unlabeled and lack semantic information about the nature of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Simone Bozzolan , Stefano Calzavara , Lorenzo Cazzaro

Privacy policies serve as the primary conduit through which online service providers inform users about their data collection and usage procedures. However, in a bid to be comprehensive and mitigate legal risks, these policy documents are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chenhao Tang , Zhengliang Liu , Chong Ma , Zihao Wu , Yiwei Li , Wei Liu , Dajiang Zhu , Quanzheng Li , Xiang Li , Tianming Liu , Lei Fan

Data aggregators collect large amount of information about individual users and create detailed online behavioral profiles of individuals. Behavioral profiles benefit users by improving products and services. However, they have also raised…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Ashwini Rao , Florian Schaub , Norman Sadeh

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released new guidelines in June of 2017 that recommended new standards for managing and accepting user passwords. Among the new guidelines is a requirement that verifiers should…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-09 JV Roig

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an essential subset of artificial intelligence. It has become effective in several domains, such as healthcare, finance, and media, to identify perceptions, opinions, and misuse, among others. Privacy is…

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