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Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which dramatically alter model output using small input changes. We propose Neural Fingerprinting, a simple, yet effective method to detect adversarial examples by verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sumanth Dathathri , Stephan Zheng , Tianwei Yin , Richard M. Murray , Yisong Yue

The exponential growth of mobile devices has raised concerns about sensitive data leakage. In this paper, we make the first attempt to identify suspicious location-related HTTP transmission flows from the user's perspective, by answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Hao Fu , Zizhan Zheng , Aveek K. Das , Parth H. Pathak , Pengfei Hu , Prasant Mohapatra

Smartphones and tablets have become ubiquitous in our daily lives. Smartphones, in particular, have become more than personal assistants. These devices have provided new avenues for consumers to play, work, and socialize whenever and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Abdulaziz Alzubaidi , Jugal Kalita

The IoT (Internet of Things) technology has been widely adopted in recent years and has profoundly changed the people's daily lives. However, in the meantime, such a fast-growing technology has also introduced new privacy issues, which need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuaike Dong , Zhou Li , Di Tang , Jiongyi Chen , Menghan Sun , Kehuan Zhang

Although the traditional physical password, fingerprint unlocking and facial features have improved the security to a certain extent, they have the characteristics of passive authentication and easiness to be stolen. The existing behavioral…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Chunmin Mi , Runjie Xu , Ching-Torng Lin

Wi-Fi signals may help realize low-cost and non-invasive human sensing, yet it can also be exploited by eavesdroppers to capture private information. Very few studies rise to handle this privacy concern so far; they either jam all sensing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Jun Luo , Hangcheng Cao , Hongbo Jiang , Yanbing Yang , Zhe Chen

With the popularity of smartphones, mobile applications (apps) have penetrated the daily life of people. Although apps provide rich functionalities, they also access a large amount of personal information simultaneously. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Shuang Zhao , Shuhui Chen , Ziling Wei

We conduct the most comprehensive study of WLAN traces to date. Measurements collected from four major university campuses are analyzed with the aim of developing fundamental understanding of realistic user behavior in wireless networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Wei-jen Hsu , Ahmed Helmy

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors. Human mobility patterns are a prominent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , David Kofoed Wind , Jure Leskovec , Sune Lehmann

Pattern lock is a general technique used to realize identity authentication and access authorization on mobile terminal devices such as Android platform devices, but it is vulnerable to the attack proposed by recent researches that exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Yangde Wang , Weidong Qiu , Yuming Xie , Yan Zha

The fact that almost every person owns a smartphone device that can be precisely located is both empowering and worrying. If methods for accurate tracking of devices (and their owners) via WiFi probing are developed in a responsible way,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Syed Salman Alam , Muhammad Al-Qurishi , Riad Souissi

Smartphone motion sensors provide a concealed mechanism for eavesdropping on acoustic information, like touchtones, emitted by a device. Eavesdropping on touchtones exposes credit card information, banking pins, and social security card…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Connor Bolton , Yan Long , Jun Han , Josiah Hester , Kevin Fu

The major mobile platforms, Android and iOS, have introduced changes that restrict user tracking to improve user privacy, yet apps continue to covertly track users via device fingerprinting. We study the opportunity to improve this dynamic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Alex Berke , Güliz Seray Tuncay , Michael Specter , Mihai Christodorescu

Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been demonstrated to be a powerful side channel for attackers to spy on users' inputs on touchscreen. In this paper, we reveal another motion accelerometer-based attack which is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Jingyu Hua , Zhenyu Shen , Sheng Zhong

Understanding human behavior is an important task and has applications in many domains such as targeted advertisement, health analytics, security, and entertainment, etc. For this purpose, designing a system for activity recognition (AR) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Sarwan Ali

Smartphones contain information that is more sensitive and personal than those found on computers and laptops. With an increase in the versatility of smartphone functionality, more data has become vulnerable and exposed to attackers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Sai Vishwanath Venkatesh , Prasanna D. Kumaran , Joish J Bosco , Pravin R. Kumaar , Vineeth Vijayaraghavan

For the time being, mobile devices employ implicit authentication mechanisms, namely, unlock patterns, PINs or biometric-based systems such as fingerprint or face recognition. While these systems are prone to well-known attacks, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Cezara Benegui , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Sensitive inferences and user re-identification are major threats to privacy when raw sensor data from wearable or portable devices are shared with cloud-assisted applications. To mitigate these threats, we propose mechanisms to transform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

We propose new privacy attacks to infer attributes (e.g., locations, occupations, and interests) of online social network users. Our attacks leverage seemingly innocent user information that is publicly available in online social networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Bin Liu

In this paper a novel system for detecting meaningful deviations in a mobile application's network behavior is proposed. The main goal of the proposed system is to protect mobile device users and cellular infrastructure companies from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-07 L. Chekina , D. Mimran , L. Rokach , Y. Elovici , B. Shapira