Systematic classification of side-channel attacks: A case study for mobile devices

R Spreitzer, V Moonsamy, T Korak… - … surveys & tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Side-channel attacks on mobile devices have gained increasing attention since their
introduction in 2007. While traditional side-channel attacks, such as power analysis attacks …

Human factors in security research: Lessons learned from 2008-2018

M Kaur, M van Eeten, M Janssen, K Borgolte… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Instead of only considering technology, computer security research now strives to also take
into account the human factor by studying regular users and, to a lesser extent, experts like …

Xhound: Quantifying the fingerprintability of browser extensions

O Starov, N Nikiforakis - 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, researchers have shown that unwanted web tracking is on the rise, as
advertisers are trying to capitalize on users' online activity, using increasingly intrusive and …

The web's sixth sense: A study of scripts accessing smartphone sensors

A Das, G Acar, N Borisov, A Pradeep - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present the first large-scale measurement of smartphone sensor API usage and
stateless tracking on the mobile web. We extend the OpenWPM web privacy measurement …

Fp-stalker: Tracking browser fingerprint evolutions

A Vastel, P Laperdrix, W Rudametkin… - 2018 IEEE Symposium …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Browser fingerprinting has emerged as a technique to track users without their consent.
Unlike cookies, fingerprinting is a stateless technique that does not store any information on …

Omnicrawl: Comprehensive measurement of web tracking with real desktop and mobile browsers

D Cassel, SC Lin, A Buraggina, W Wang… - Proceedings on …, 2022 - petsymposium.org
Over half of all visits to websites now take place in a mobile browser, yet the majority of web
privacy studies take the vantage point of desktop browsers, use emulated mobile browsers …

Privacy threats through ultrasonic side channels on mobile devices

D Arp, E Quiring, C Wressnegger… - 2017 IEEE European …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device tracking is a serious threat to the privacy of users, as it enables spying on their habits
and activities. A recent practice embeds ultrasonic beacons in audio and tracks them using …

A comparative measurement study of web tracking on mobile and desktop environments

Z Yang, C Yue - Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Web measurement is a powerful approach to studying various tracking practices that may
compromise the privacy of millions of users. Researchers have built several measurement …

Accelerometer-based device fingerprinting for multi-factor mobile authentication

T Van Goethem, W Scheepers, D Preuveneers… - … Secure Software and …, 2016 - Springer
Due to the numerous data breaches, often resulting in the disclosure of a substantial amount
of user passwords, the classic authentication scheme where just a password is required to …

Decomposition of MAC address structure for granular device inference

J Martin, E Rye, R Beverly - Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Common among the wide variety of ubiquitous networked devices in modern use is wireless
802.11 connectivity. The MAC addresses of these devices are visible to a passive adversary …