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In the field of network security, the concept of honeypots is well established in research as well as in production. Honeypots are used to imitate a legitimate target on the network and to raise an alert on any interaction. This does not…

In this paper, a new mathematical formulation for the problem of de-anonymizing social network users by actively querying their membership in social network groups is introduced. In this formulation, the attacker has access to a noisy…

The primary objective of an anonymity tool is to protect the anonymity of its users through the implementation of strong encryption and obfuscation techniques. As a result, it becomes very difficult to monitor and identify users activities…