The adoption of network traffic encryption is continually growing. Popular applications use
encryption protocols to secure communications and protect the privacy of users. In addition …

As the Internet has transformed into a critical infrastructure, society has become more
vulnerable to its security flaws. Despite substantial efforts to address many of these …

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly found in everyday homes, providing useful
functionality for devices such as TVs, smart speakers, and video doorbells. Along with their …

The apps installed on a smartphone can reveal much information about a user, such as their
medical conditions, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs. In addition, the presence or …

Modern smartphone platforms implement permission-based models to protect access to
sensitive data and system resources. However, apps can circumvent the permission model …

Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they ease application
development and enable features such as analytics, social network integration, and app …

It is well known that apps running on mobile devices extensively track and leak users'
personally identifiable information (PII); however, these users have little visibility into PII …

Millions of users worldwide resort to mobile VPN clients to either circumvent censorship or to
access geo-blocked content, and more generally for privacy and security purposes. In …

Traffic classification acquired the interest of the Internet community early on. Different
approaches have been proposed to classify Internet traffic to manage both security and …

Many network services and tools (eg network monitors, malware-detection systems, routing
and billing policy enforcement modules in ISPs) depend on identifying the type of traffic that …