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Website Fingerprinting (WFP) has traditionally focused on inferring which website a user visits from encrypted traffic metadata such as packet sizes and timing. In this paper, we identify and quantify a new privacy risk in modern web…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Chuxu Song , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Federated Learning has been popularized in recent years for applications involving personal or sensitive data, as it allows the collaborative training of machine learning models through local updates at the data-owners' premises, which does…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Elena Rodríguez-Lois , Fabio Brau , Maura Pintor , Battista Biggio , Fernando Pérez-González

Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing are changing the way people interacts with digital images and video. Widespread mobile apps like FACEAPP make use of the most advanced Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Luca Guarnera , Oliver Giudice , Sebastiano Battiato

Due to the diversity of attack materials, fingerprint recognition systems (AFRSs) are vulnerable to malicious attacks. It is thus important to propose effective fingerprint presentation attack detection (PAD) methods for the safety and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Feng Liu , Zhe Kong , Haozhe Liu , Wentian Zhang , Linlin Shen

Online anonymity and privacy has been based on confusing the adversary by creating indistinguishable network elements. Tor is the largest and most widely deployed anonymity system, designed against realistic modern adversaries. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 George Kadianakis , Theodoros Polyzos , Mike Perry , Kostas Chatzikokolakis

Federated Learning (FL) has recently become an effective approach for cyberattack detection systems, especially in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. By distributing the learning process across IoT gateways, FL can improve learning…

Content fingerprinting and digital watermarking are techniques that are used for content protection and distribution monitoring. Over the past few years, both techniques have been well studied and their shortcomings understood. Recently, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Farzad Farhadzadeh , Frans M. J. Willems , Sviatoslav Voloshinovskiy

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) have grown increasingly complex and concealed, posing formidable challenges to existing Intrusion Detection Systems in identifying and mitigating these attacks. Recent studies have incorporated graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Wenhan Jiang , Tingting Chai , Hongri Liu , Kai Wang , Hongke Zhang

This paper advances the state of the art by proposing the first comprehensive analysis and experimental evaluation of adversarial learning attacks to wireless deep learning systems. We postulate a series of adversarial attacks, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Francesco Restuccia , Salvatore D'Oro , Amani Al-Shawabka , Bruno Costa Rendon , Kaushik Chowdhury , Stratis Ioannidis , Tommaso Melodia

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

Fake videos represent an important misinformation threat. While existing forensic networks have demonstrated strong performance on image forgeries, recent results reported on the Adobe VideoSham dataset show that these networks fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tai D. Nguyen , Shengbang Fang , Matthew C. Stamm

The cloud computing landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, embracing various sandboxes to meet the diverse demands of modern cloud applications. These sandboxes encompass container-based technologies like Docker and gVisor,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Debopriya Roy Dipta , Thore Tiemann , Berk Gulmezoglu , Eduard Marin , Thomas Eisenbarth

Quantitative Information Flow (QIF) provides a robust information-theoretical framework for designing secure systems with minimal information leakage. While previous research has addressed the design of such systems under hard constraints…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Andreas Athanasiou , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi

Distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) in limited field-of-view (FoV) sensor networks commonly suffers from label inconsistency, whereby different nodes disagree on the identity of the same target. Recent track-consensus DMTT (TC-DMTT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Helena Calatrava , Shuo Tang , Pau Closas

IoT environments such as smart homes are susceptible to privacy inference attacks, where attackers can analyze patterns of encrypted network traffic to infer the state of devices and even the activities of people. While most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ronghua Li , Shinan Liu , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Nick Feamster

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

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks infer the websites visited by users from encrypted traffic in anonymous networks such as Tor. Existing deep learning methods achieve high accuracy under the single-tab assumption but degrade substantially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yali Yuan , Yaosheng Liu , Qianqi Niu , Guang Cheng

Device fingerprinting combined with Machine and Deep Learning (ML/DL) report promising performance when detecting cyberattacks targeting data managed by resource-constrained spectrum sensors. However, the amount of data needed to train…

Due to the growing demand for privacy protection, encrypted tunnels have become increasingly popular among mobile app users, which brings new challenges to app fingerprinting (AF)-based network management. Existing methods primarily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Zheyuan Gu , Chang Liu , Xiyuan Zhang , Chen Yang , Gaopeng Gou , Gang Xiong , Zhen Li , Sijia Li

This paper proposes a novel method for tamper detection and recovery using semi-fragile data hiding, based on Lifting Wavelet Transform (LWT) and Feed-Forward Neural Network (FNN). In TRLF, first, the host image is decomposed up to one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Behrouz Bolourian Haghighi , Amir Hossein Taherinia , Reza Monsefi