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Website fingerprinting attacks, which use statistical analysis on network traffic to compromise user privacy, have been shown to be effective even if the traffic is sent over anonymity-preserving networks such as Tor. The classical attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Anatoly Shusterman , Lachlan Kang , Yarden Haskal , Yosef Meltser , Prateek Mittal , Yossi Oren , Yuval Yarom

Acoustic side-channel attacks on keyboards can bypass security measures in many systems that use keyboards as one of the input devices. These attacks aim to reveal users' sensitive information by targeting the sounds made by their keyboards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Alireza Taheritajar , Reza Rahaeimehr

In cache-based side channel attacks, an attacker infers information about the victim based on the presence, or lack thereof, of one or more cachelines. Determining a cacheline's presence, which we refer to as "reading the signal", typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-02 David A. Kaplan

Detecting whether a target crosses the given zone (e.g., a door) can enable various practical applications in smart homes, including intelligent security and people counting. The traditional infrared-based approach only covers a line and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Weiyan Shi , Xuanzhi Wang , Kai Niu , Leye Wang , Daqing Zhang

Recent works showed that it is feasible to hijack resources on cloud platforms. In such hijacks, attackers can take over released resources that belong to legitimate organizations. It was proposed that adversaries could abuse these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jens Frieß , Tobias Gattermayer , Nethanel Gelernter , Haya Schulmann , Michael Waidner

Air-gapped networks are wired with Ethernet cables since wireless connections are strictly prohibited. In this paper we present LANTENNA - a new type of electromagnetic attack allowing adversaries to leak sensitive data from isolated,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Mordechai Guri

With the dense deployment of millimeter wave (mmWave) front ends and popularization of bandwidth-intensive applications, shared backhaul in fiber-wireless (FiWi) networks is still facing a bandwidth crunch. To alleviate the backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zhuojia Gu , Hancheng Lu , Zuqing Zhu

Cybersecurity of space infrastructures is an emerging topic, despite space-related cybersecurity incidents occurring as early as 1977 (i.e., hijacking of a satellite transmission signal). There is no single dataset that documents cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ekzhin Ear , Jose Luis Castanon Remy , Caleb Chang , Qiren Que , Antonia Feffer , Shouhuai Xu

Millimeter-wave wireless networks offer high throughput and can (ideally) prevent eavesdropping attacks using narrow, directional beams. Unfortunately, imperfections in physical hardware mean today's antenna arrays all exhibit side lobes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Yanzi Zhu , Ying Ju , Bolun Wang , Jenna Cryan , Ben Y. Zhao , Haitao Zheng

The proliferation of smart home Internet of Things (IoT) devices presents unprecedented challenges for preserving privacy within the home. In this paper, we demonstrate that a passive network observer (e.g., an Internet service provider)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Noah Apthorpe , Danny Yuxing Huang , Dillon Reisman , Arvind Narayanan , Nick Feamster

Phishing webpages are continuously polluting the Web. Plenty of countermeasures have been proposed and the most advanced techniques leverage machine-learning methods that infer whether a webpage is benign or not by inspecting its visual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ying Yuan , Cristiano Alex Rado , Giovanni Apruzzese , Mauro Conti , Luigi Vincenzo Mancini

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

Among the most challenging traffic-analysis attacks to confound are those leveraging the sizes of objects downloaded over the network. In this paper we systematically analyze this problem under realistic constraints regarding the padding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Andrew C. Reed , Michael K. Reiter

Cross-Technology Interference (CTI) poses challenges for the performance and robustness of wireless networks. There are opportunities for better cooperation if the spectral occupation and technology of the interference can be detected.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Thijs Havinga , Xianjun Jiao , Wei Liu , Baiheng Chen , Adnan Shahid , Ingrid Moerman

For a distributed last-level cache (LLC) in a large multicore chip, the access time to one LLC bank can significantly differ from that to another due to the difference in physical distance. In this paper, we successfully demonstrated a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Farabi Mahmud , Sungkeun Kim , Harpreet Singh Chawla , Chia-Che Tsai , Eun Jung Kim , Abdullah Muzahid

Network operators and system administrators are increasingly overwhelmed with incessant cyber-security threats ranging from malicious network reconnaissance to attacks such as distributed denial of service and data breaches. A large number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Rafail Kartsioukas , Rajat Tandon , Zheng Gao , Jelena Mirkovic , Michalis Kallitsis , Stilian Stoev

Modern x86 processors have many prefetch instructions that can be used by programmers to boost performance. However, these instructions may also cause security problems. In particular, we found that on Intel processors, there are two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yanan Guo , Andrew Zigerelli , Youtao Zhang , Jun Yang

A passive local eavesdropper can leverage Website Fingerprinting (WF) to deanonymize the web browsing activity of Tor users. The value of timing information to WF has often been discounted in recent works due to the volatility of low-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Mohammad Saidur Rahman , Payap Sirinam , Nate Mathews , Kantha Girish Gangadhara , Matthew Wright

Secure communication over a wiretap channel is investigated, in which an active adversary modifies the state of the channel and the legitimate transmitter has the opportunity to sense and learn the adversary's actions. The adversary has the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aylin Yener

Privacy concerns around 5G, the latest generation of mobile networks, are growing, with fears that its deployment may increase exposure to privacy risks. This perception is largely driven by the use of denser deployments of small antenna…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Atmane Ayoub Mansour Bahar , Andrés Alayón Glazunov , Romaric Duvignau