[HTML][HTML] Pushing boundaries: An empirical view on the digital sovereignty of six governments in the midst of geopolitical tensions

B Jansen, N Kadenko, D Broeders, M van Eeten… - Government Information …, 2023 - Elsevier
In just a few years, the issue of “digital sovereignty” has emerged as an important security
issue for governments across the globe, reflecting a growing unease about the security risks …

Network responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022: a cautionary tale for internet freedom

R Ramesh, RS Raman, A Virkud, A Dirksen… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was followed by sanctions and restrictions: by
Russia against its citizens, by Russia against the world, and by foreign actors against …

Et tu, brute? privacy analysis of government websites and mobile apps

N Samarasinghe, A Adhikari, M Mannan… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Past privacy measurement studies on web tracking focused on high-ranked commercial
websites, as user tracking is extensively used for monetization on those sites. Conversely …

Hammurabi: A framework for pluggable, logic-based X. 509 certificate validation policies

J Larisch, W Aqeel, M Lum, Y Goldschlag… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes using a logic programming language to disentangle X. 509 certificate
validation policy from mechanism. Expressing validation policies in a logic programming …

Rusted anchors: A national client-side view of hidden root CAs in the web PKI ecosystem

Y Zhang, B Liu, C Lu, Z Li, H Duan, J Li… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
HTTPS secures communications in the web and heavily relies on the Web PKI for
authentication. In the Web PKI, Certificate Authorities (CAs) are organizations that provide …

A comprehensive, longitudinal study of government DNS deployment at global scale

R Houser, S Hao, C Cotton… - 2022 52nd Annual IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the Domain Name System (DNS), government domains form a particularly valuable
part of the names-pace, representing trusted sources of information, vital services, and …

Sok: Sct auditing in certificate transparency

S Meiklejohn, J DeBlasio, D O'Brien… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Web public key infrastructure is essential to providing secure communication on the
Internet today, and certificate authorities play a crucial role in this ecosystem by issuing …

PassREfinder: Credential Stuffing Risk Prediction by Representing Password Reuse between Websites on a Graph

J Kim, M Song, M Seo, Y Jin, S Shin - 2024 IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - computer.org
The prevalence of credential stuffing has caused devastating harm to online users who tend
to reuse passwords across websites. In response, researchers have made efforts to detect …

Security of alerting authorities in the WWW: measuring namespaces, DNSSEC, and Web PKI

P Fotouhi Tehrani, E Osterweil, JH Schiller… - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
During disasters, crisis, and emergencies the public relies on online services provided by
official authorities to receive timely alerts, trustworthy information, and access to relief …

[PDF][PDF] Poster: On the (In) Security of Government Web and Mail Infrastructure

E Lam, R Anderson, K Heimerl, Y Ito, JJ de Koning… - 2024 - ndss-symposium.org
Government web infrastructure is a critical part of today's Internet and the functioning of
society. Citizens' interactions with digital government infrastructure needs to be secure since …