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Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android
Aniketh Girish, Joel Reardon, Juan Tapiador +2
Mobile apps frequently use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi scanning permissions to discover nearby devices like peripherals and connect to WiFi Access Points (APs). However, wi…
Fakeium: A Dynamic Execution Environment for JavaScript Program Analysis
José Miguel Moreno, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Juan Tapiador
The JavaScript programming language, which began as a simple scripting language for the Web, has become ubiquitous, spanning desktop, mobile, and server applications. This increase…
Did I Vet You Before? Assessing the Chrome Web Store Vetting Process through Browser Extension Similarity
José Miguel Moreno, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Juan Tapiador
Web browsers, particularly Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, have grown in popularity over the past decade, with browser extensions becoming an integral part of thei…
Your Code is 0000: An Analysis of the Disposable Phone Numbers Ecosystem
José Miguel Moreno, Srdjan Matic, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez +1
Short Message Service (SMS) is a popular channel for online service providers to verify accounts and authenticate users registered to a particular service. Specialized applications…
Chrowned by an Extension: Abusing the Chrome DevTools Protocol through the Debugger API
José Miguel Moreno, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Juan Tapiador
The Chromium open-source project has become a fundamental piece of the Web as we know it today, with multiple vendors offering browsers based on its codebase. One of its most popul…
Reviewing War: Unconventional User Reviews as a Side Channel to Circumvent Information Controls
José Miguel Moreno, Sergio Pastrana, Jens Helge Reelfs +6
During the first days of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia's media regulator blocked access to many global social media platforms and news sites, including Twitter, Face…
Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers
Amogh Pradeep, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba +4
The transparency and privacy behavior of mobile browsers has remained widely unexplored by the research community. In fact, as opposed to regular Android apps, mobile browsers may…
Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem
Kaspar Hageman, Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba +5
The ability to identify the author responsible for a given software object is critical for many research studies and for enhancing software transparency and accountability. However…
Back in control -- An extensible middle-box on your phone
James Newman, Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez +4
The closed design of mobile devices -- with the increased security and consistent user interfaces -- is in large part responsible for their becoming the dominant platform for acces…
Understanding Incentivized Mobile App Installs on Google Play Store
Shehroze Farooqi, Álvaro Feal, Tobias Lauinger +3
"Incentivized" advertising platforms allow mobile app developers to acquire new users by directly paying users to install and engage with mobile apps (e.g., create an account, make…
The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic
Anja Feldmann, Oliver Gasser, Franziska Lichtblau +9
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments imposed lock downs that forced hundreds of millions of citizens to stay at home. The implementation of confinement measures increased…
The Era of TLS 1.3: Measuring Deployment and Use with Active and Passive Methods
Ralph Holz, Johanna Amann, Abbas Razaghpanah +1
TLS 1.3 marks a significant departure from previous versions of the Transport Layer Security protocol (TLS). The new version offers a simplified protocol flow, more secure cryptogr…
Encrypted DNS --> Privacy? A Traffic Analysis Perspective
Sandra Siby, Marc Juarez, Claudia Diaz +2
Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup which is performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surv…
An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software
Julien Gamba, Mohammed Rashed, Abbas Razaghpanah +2
The open-source nature of the Android OS makes it possible for manufacturers to ship custom versions of the OS along with a set of pre-installed apps, often for product differentia…
Beyond Google Play: A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Chinese Android App Markets
Haoyu Wang, Zhe Liu, Jingyue Liang +6
China is one of the largest Android markets in the world. As Chinese users cannot access Google Play to buy and install Android apps, a number of independent app stores have emerge…
A Long Way to the Top: Significance, Structure, and Stability of Internet Top Lists
Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Hohlfeld, Julien Gamba +4
A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and network security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers make use of target lists f…
Tracking the Trackers: Towards Understanding the Mobile Advertising and Tracking Ecosystem
Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan, Abbas Razaghpanah +4
Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they allow app developers to add features such as performance analytics and social network integration, and to m…
A Multi-perspective Analysis of Carrier-Grade NAT Deployment
Philipp Richter, Florian Wohlfart, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez +6
As ISPs face IPv4 address scarcity they increasingly turn to network address translation (NAT) to accommodate the address needs of their customers. Recently, ISPs have moved beyond…
Ad-Blocking and Counter Blocking: A Slice of the Arms Race
Rishab Nithyanand, Sheharbano Khattak, Mobin Javed +6
Adblocking tools like Adblock Plus continue to rise in popularity, potentially threatening the dynamics of advertising revenue streams. In response, a number of publishers have ram…
Haystack: A Multi-Purpose Mobile Vantage Point in User Space
Abbas Razaghpanah, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Srikanth Sundaresan +4
Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range of daily tasks, their operation remains largely opaque. A number of previous studies have addressed elements of this…