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SunBlock: Cloudless Protection for IoT Systems
Vadim Safronov, Anna Maria Mandalari, Daniel J. Dubois +2
With an increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices present in homes, there is a rise in the number of potential information leakage channels and their associated securit…
Protected or Porous: A Comparative Analysis of Threat Detection Capability of IoT Safeguards
Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed Haddadi, Daniel J. Dubois +1
Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly common, from smart speakers to security cameras, in homes. Along with their benefits come potential privacy and security…
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…
Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem
Umar Iqbal, Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda +7
Smart speakers collect voice commands, which can be used to infer sensitive information about users. Given the potential for privacy harms, there is a need for greater transparency…
ZLeaks: Passive Inference Attacks on Zigbee based Smart Homes
Narmeen Shafqat, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes +3
Zigbee is an energy-efficient wireless IoT protocol that is increasingly being deployed in smart home settings. In this work, we analyze the privacy guarantees of Zigbee protocol.…
Blocking without Breaking: Identification and Mitigation of Non-Essential IoT Traffic
Anna Maria Mandalari, Daniel J. Dubois, Roman Kolcun +3
Despite the prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, there is little information about the purpose and risks of the Internet traffic these devices generate, and consumers ha…