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In modern software development, the JavaScript ecosystem of various frameworks and libraries used to develop contemporary web applications presents many advantages. JavaScript is a widely known interpreted programming language, simple to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-16 M. Sipek , D. Muharemagic , B. Mihaljevic , A. Radovan

The widespread use of smart devices gives rise to both security and privacy concerns. Fingerprinting smart devices can assist in authenticating physical devices, but it can also jeopardize privacy by allowing remote identification without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar

Website fingerprinting attack is an extensively studied technique used in a web browser to analyze traffic patterns and thus infer confidential information about users. Several website fingerprinting attacks based on machine learning and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Guodong Huang , Chuan Ma , Ming Ding , Yuwen Qian , Chunpeng Ge , Liming Fang , Zhe Liu

We describe Swivel, a new compiler framework for hardening WebAssembly (Wasm) against Spectre attacks. Outside the browser, Wasm has become a popular lightweight, in-process sandbox and is, for example, used in production to isolate…

The extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) is extensively utilized for observability and performance analysis in cloud-native environments. However, deploying eBPF programs across a heterogeneous cloud environment presents challenges,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yusheng Zheng , Tong Yu , Yiwei Yang , Andrew Quinn

WebAssembly has become a crucial part of the modern web, offering a faster alternative to JavaScript in browsers. While boosting rich applications in browser, this technology is also very efficient to develop cryptojacking malware. This has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Martin Monperrus , Tim Toady , Benoit Baudry

Wireless fingerprinting refers to a device identification method leveraging hardware imperfections and wireless channel variations as signatures. Beyond physical layer characteristics, recent studies demonstrated that user behaviors could…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Teng-Hui Huang , Thilini Dahanayaka , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Philip H. W. Leong , Hesham El Gamal

The emergence of WebAssembly allows attackers to hide the malicious functionalities of JavaScript malware in cross-language interoperations, termed JavaScript-WebAssembly multilingual malware (JWMM). However, existing anti-virus solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yifan Xia , Ping He , Xuhong Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

A key strength of managed runtimes over hardware is the ability to gain detailed insight into the dynamic execution of programs with instrumentation. Analyses such as code coverage, execution frequency, tracing, and debugging, are all made…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ben L. Titzer , Elizabeth Gilbert , Bradley Wei Jie Teo , Yash Anand , Kazuyuki Takayama , Heather Miller

Website Fingerprinting attacks enable a passive eavesdropper to recover the user's otherwise anonymized web browsing activity by matching the observed traffic with prerecorded web traffic templates. The defenses that have been proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Marc Juarez , Mohsen Imani , Mike Perry , Claudia Diaz , Matthew Wright

Due to the openness of the wireless medium, smartphone users are susceptible to user privacy attacks, where user privacy information is inferred from encrypted Wi-Fi wireless traffic. Existing attacks are limited to recognizing mobile apps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yong Huang , Zhibo Dong , Xiaoguang Yang , Dalong Zhang , Qingxian Wang , Zhihua Wang

In today's world, computer networks have become vulnerable to numerous attacks. In both wireless and wired networks, one of the most common attacks is man-in-the-middle attacks, within which session hijacking, context confusion attacks have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Kailash Gogineni , Yongsheng Mei , Guru Venkataramani , Tian Lan

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

One-time login process in conventional authentication systems does not guarantee that the identified user is the actual user throughout the session. However, it is necessary to re-verify the user identity periodically throughout a login…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Abbas Acar , Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Kemal Akkaya

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

WebAssembly is the fourth officially endorsed Web language. It is recognized because of its efficiency and design, focused on security. Yet, its swiftly expanding ecosystem lacks robust software diversification systems. We introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Javier Cabrera-Arteaga , Nicholas Fitzgerald , Martin Monperrus , Benoit Baudry

As online tracking continues to grow, existing anti-tracking and fingerprinting detection techniques that require significant manual input must be augmented. Heuristic approaches to fingerprinting detection are precise but must be carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Sarah Bird , Vikas Mishra , Steven Englehardt , Rob Willoughby , David Zeber , Walter Rudametkin , Martin Lopatka

Wireless networks are a common place nowadays and almost all of the modern devices support wireless communication in some form. These networks differ from more traditional computing systems due to the ad-hoc and spontaneous nature of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Yasir Arfat Malkani , Lachhman Das Dhomeja

Machine learning is often used for malicious website detection, but an approach incorporating WebAssembly as a feature has not been explored due to a limited number of samples, to the best of our knowledge. In this paper, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Chika Komiya , Naoto Yanai , Kyosuke Yamashita , Shingo Okamura

Node forgery or impersonation, in which legitimate cryptographic credentials are captured by an adversary, constitutes one major security threat facing wireless networks. The fact that mobile devices are prone to be compromised and reverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Qiang Xu , Rong Zheng , Walid Saad , Zhu Han
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