Categories
research security

Who On Earth Is ”Mr. Cypher“: Automated Friend Injection Attacks on Social Networking Sites

Abstract. Within this paper we present our novel friend injection attack which exploits the fact that the great majority of social networking sites fail to protect the communication between its users and their services. In a practical evaluation, on the basis of public wireless access points, we furthermore demonstrate the feasibility of our attack. The […]

Categories
research security tor

Tor HTTP usage and Information Leakage

Abstract- This paper analyzes the web browsing behaviour of Tor users. By collecting HTTP requests we show which websites are of interest to Tor users and we determined an upper bound on how vulnerable Tor users are to sophisticated de-anonymization attacks: up to 78 % of the Tor users do not use Tor as suggested […]

Categories
research security

Happy Birtday Spam!

Apparently 30 years ago the first Spam message was sent. Thus happy birthday dear beloved Spam and hopefully we get rid of these messages clogging up our mailboxes soon.