The Web is a tangled mass of interconnected services, where websites import a range of
external resources from various third-party domains. The latter can also load resources …

The popularity of online gambling could bring negative social impact, and many countries
ban or restrict online gambling. Taking China for example, online gambling violates Chinese …

A common approach when setting up a website is to utilize third party Web hosting and
content delivery networks. Without taking this trend into account, any measurement study …

Illicit website owners frequently rely on traffic distribution systems (TDSs) operated by less-
than-scrupulous advertising networks to acquire user traffic. While researchers have …

Live streaming is one of the most popular Internet activities. Nowadays, there has been an
increase in free live streaming (FLS) services that provide unauthorized broadcasting of live …

Under increasing scrutiny, many web companies now offer bespoke mechanisms allowing
any third party to file complaints (eg, requesting the de-listing of a URL from a search …

We present a novel technique for modulating the appearance frequency of a few tokens
within a dataset for encoding an invisible watermark that can be used to protect ownership …

Given the central role of webcams in monitoring physical surroundings, it behooves the
research community to understand the characteristics of webcams' distribution and their …

With the rapid development of video streaming, the problem of copyright infringement has
become increasingly severe. Despite its explicit illegality in many countries, a large variety of …

Free and open-source media centers are experiencing a boom in popularity for the
convenience they offer users seeking to remotely consume digital content. Kodi is today's …