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Smartphones have ubiquitously integrated into our home and work environments, however, users normally rely on explicit but inefficient identification processes in a controlled environment. Therefore, when a device is stolen, a thief can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Muhammad Ahmad , Ali Kashif Bashir , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Shahzad Sarfraz

In order to protect user privacy on mobile devices, an event-driven implicit authentication scheme is proposed in this paper. Several methods of utilizing the scheme for recognizing legitimate user behavior are investigated. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Feng Yao , Suleiman Y. Yerima , BooJoong Kang , Sakir Sezer

Mobile devices and technologies have become increasingly popular, offering comparable storage and computational capabilities to desktop computers allowing users to store and interact with sensitive and private information. The security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mohammed Abuhamad , Ahmed Abusnaina , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

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

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 (WF) attacks aim to infer which websites a user is visiting by analyzing traffic patterns, thereby compromising user anonymity. Although this technique has been demonstrated to be effective in controlled experimental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yali Yuan , Weiyi Zou , Guang Cheng

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

With the increasing popularity of the Internet of Things(IoT) devices, the demand for fast and convenient battery charging services grows rapidly. Wireless charging is a promising technology for such a purpose and its usage has become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Zhiyun Wang , Jiayu Zhang , Xiaoyu Ji , Wenyuan Xu , Gang Qu , Minjian Zhao

Large-scale collection of human behavioral data by companies raises serious privacy concerns. We show that behavior captured in the form of application usage data collected from smartphones is highly unique even in very large datasets…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Vedran Sekara , Enys Mones , Håkan Jonsson

Smartphones' cameras, microphones, and device displays enable users to capture and view memorable moments of their lives. However, adversaries can trick users into authorizing malicious apps that exploit weaknesses in current mobile…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Giuseppe Petracca , Ahmad Atamli , Yuqiong Sun , Jens Grossklags , Trent Jaeger

We demonstrate how the multitude of sensors on a smartphone can be used to construct a reliable hardware fingerprint of the phone. Such a fingerprint can be used to de-anonymize mobile devices as they connect to web sites, and as a second…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Hristo Bojinov , Yan Michalevsky , Gabi Nakibly , Dan Boneh

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

Recent work in traffic analysis has shown that traffic patterns leaked through side channels can be used to recover important semantic information. For instance, attackers can find out which website, or which page on a website, a user is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Xun Gong , Negar Kiyavash , Nabíl Schear , Nikita Borisov

Fingerprinting is a popular indoor localization technique since it can utilize existing infrastructures (e.g., access points). However, its site survey process is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, which limits the application of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Fuqiang Gu , Milad Ramezani , Kourosh Khoshelham , Xiaoping Zheng , Ruiqin Zhou , Jianga Shang

Current smartphone operating systems regulate application permissions by prompting users on an ask-on-first-use basis. Prior research has shown that this method is ineffective because it fails to account for context: the circumstances under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Primal Wijesekera , Arjun Baokar , Lynn Tsai , Joel Reardon , Serge Egelman , David Wagner , Konstantin Beznosov

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents that orchestrate tasks and integrate external tools to execute complex workflows. We demonstrate that these interactive behaviors leave distinctive fingerprints in encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yixiang Zhang , Xinhao Deng , Zhongyi Gu , Yihao Chen , Ke Xu , Qi Li , Jianping Wu

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is to identify a wireless device from its uniqueness of the analog circuitry or hardware imperfections. However, unlike the MAC address which can be modified, such hardware feature is inevitable for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zhaoyi Lu , Wenchao Xu , Ming Tu , Xin Xie , Cunqing Hua , Nan Cheng

We evaluate the power of simple networks side-channels to violate user privacy on Android devices. Specifically, we show that, using blackbox network metadata alone (i.e., traffic statistics such as transmission time and size of packets) it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mikhail Andreev , Avi Klausner , Trishita Tiwari , Ari Trachtenberg , Arkady Yerukhimovich

In contemporary mobile user authentication systems, verifying user legitimacy has become paramount due to the widespread use of smartphones. Although fingerprint and facial recognition are widely used for mobile authentication, PIN-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Yooshin Kim , Namhyeok Kwon , Donghoon Shin

In this paper, we propose a novel continuous authentication system for smartphone users. The proposed system entirely relies on unlabeled phone movement patterns collected through smartphone accelerometer. The data was collected in a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Rajesh Kumar , Partha Pratim Kundu , Diksha Shukla , Vir V. Phoha