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Nowadays, mobile smart devices are widely used in daily life. It is increasingly important to prevent malicious users from accessing private data, thus a secure and convenient authentication method is urgently needed. Compared with common…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yadong Xie , Fan Li , Yu Wang

As nowadays most web application requests originate from mobile devices, authentication of mobile users is essential in terms of security considerations. To this end, recent approaches rely on machine learning techniques to analyze various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 David Monschein , Oliver P. Waldhorst

The Internet traffic data produced by the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are collected by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and device manufacturers, and often shared with their third parties to maintain and enhance user services.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Su Wang , Keyang Yu , Qi Li , Dong Chen

Wearable devices such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and blood-pressure monitors process, store, and communicate sensitive and personal information related to the health, life-style, habits and interests of the wearer. This data is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ludovic Barman , Alexandre Dumur , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Jean-Pierre Hubaux

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

The contact-free sensing nature of Wi-Fi has been leveraged to achieve privacy breaches, yet existing attacks relying on Wi-Fi CSI (channel state information) demand hacking Wi-Fi hardware to obtain desired CSIs. Since such hacking has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jingyang Hu , Hongbo Wang , Tianyue Zheng , Jingzhi Hu , Zhe Chen , Hongbo Jiang , Jun Luo

Wi-Fi signals can be exploited by adversaries as a sensing side channel to eavesdrop on physical information. By monitoring propagation effects of radio waves within the victim's environment, attackers can remotely infer sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Johannes Kortz , Paul Staat , Christof Paar , Christian Zenger

The increasing use of the Internet of Things raises security concerns. To address this, device fingerprinting is often employed to authenticate devices, detect adversaries, and identify eavesdroppers in an environment. This requires the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Justin Feng , Amirmohammad Haddad , Nader Sehatbakhsh

Smartphones have become quite pervasive in various aspects of our daily lives. They have become important links to a host of important data and applications, which if compromised, can lead to disastrous results. Due to this, today's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Thingom Bishal Singha , Rajsekhar Kumar Nath , A. V. Narsimhadhan

The development and adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices will grow significantly in the coming years to enable Industry 4.0. Many forms of IoT devices will be developed and used across industry verticals. However, the euphoria of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Jonathan Pan

As vehicle maneuver data becomes abundant for assisted or autonomous driving, their implication of privacy invasion/leakage has become an increasing concern. In particular, the surface for fingerprinting a driver will expand significantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Dongyao Chen , Kyong-Tak Cho , Kang G. Shin

Detecting the source model of AI-generated images is a growing accountability problem. AI fingerprinting techniques address this by detecting imperceptible patterns in the images that are unique to each model, achieving high detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Kai Yao , Marc Juarez

Pattern lock has been widely used for authentication to protect user privacy on mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets). Given its pervasive usage, the compromise of pattern lock could lead to serious consequences. Several attacks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-15 Man Zhou , Qian Wang , Jingxiao Yang , Qi Li , Feng Xiao , Zhibo Wang , Xiaofeng Chen

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

Proximity-based social applications let users interact with people that are currently close to them, by revealing some information about their preferences and whereabouts. This information is acquired through passive geo-localisation and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Silvia Puglisi , David Rebollo-Monedero , Jordi Forné

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks identify the websites visited over anonymized connections by analyzing patterns in network traffic flows, such as packet sizes, directions, or interval times using a machine learning classifier. Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chuxu Song , Zining Fan , Hao Wang , Richard Martin

Network access detection plays a crucial role in global network management, enabling efficient network monitoring and topology measurement by identifying unauthorized network access and gathering detailed information about mobile devices.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Wenhao Li , Qiang Wang , Huaifeng Bao , Xiao-Yu Zhang , Lingyun Ying , Zhaoxuan Li

The smartphone and laptop can be unlocked by face or fingerprint recognition, while neural networks which confront numerous requests every day have little capability to distinguish between untrustworthy and credible users. It makes model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Ge Ren , Jun Wu , Gaolei Li , Shenghong Li

Today, mobile phones are very popular, fast growing technology. Mobile phones of the present day are more and more like small computers. The so-called "smartphones" contain a wealth of information each. This information has been proven to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Bert Busstra , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-Tahar Kechadi

In this paper we list the sensors commonly available in modern smartphones and provide a general outlook of the different ways these sensors can be used for modeling the interaction between human and smartphones. We then provide a taxonomy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Alejandro Acien , Aythami Morales , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Julian Fierrez