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most citedIs Your Kettle Smarter Than a Hacker? A Scalable Tool for Assessing Replay Attack Vulnerabilities on Consumer IoT Devices

24 citations · 72 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.NI2026

CERTIoT-6G: Continuous Cybersecurity Certification for IoT Devices in 5G/6G Networks

Evangelos Lempesis, Fabio Palmese, Hamed Haddadi +1

The massive adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across critical domains such as healthcare, smart cities, industrial automation, and critical infrastructure introduces sig…

cs.NI2026

Early-Stage IoT Device Identification Using Passive Network Traffic Analysis

Alex Ciechonski, Fabio Palmese, Alessandro E. C. Redondi +1

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices introduces significant security challenges due to limited visibility and weak device-level guarantees. Accurate and time…

cs.CR2025

Intelligent Detection of Non-Essential IoT Traffic on the Home Gateway

Fabio Palmese, Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed Haddadi +1

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in smart home environments, has introduced considerable security and privacy concerns due to their persistent…

cs.HC2025

Big Help or Big Brother? Auditing Tracking, Profiling, and Personalization in Generative AI Assistants

Yash Vekaria, Aurelio Loris Canino, Jonathan Levitsky +4

Generative AI (GenAI) browser assistants integrate powerful capabilities of GenAI in web browsers to provide rich experiences such as question answering, content summarization, and…

cs.CR2024★ 3 cited

Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs

Gianluca Anselmi, Yash Vekaria, Alexander D'Souza +3

Smart TVs implement a unique tracking approach called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to profile viewing activity of their users. ACR is a Shazam-like technology that works by…

cs.CR2024

ACCESS-FL: Agile Communication and Computation for Efficient Secure Aggregation in Stable Federated Learning Networks

Niousha Nazemi, Omid Tavallaie, Shuaijun Chen +5

Federated Learning (FL) is a promising distributed learning framework designed for privacy-aware applications. FL trains models on client devices without sharing the client's data…

cs.NI2024

Analysis of DNS Dependencies and their Security Implications in Australia: A Comparative Study of General and Indigenous Populations

Niousha Nazemi, Omid Tavallaie, Anna Maria Mandalari +3

This paper investigates the impact of internet centralization on DNS provisioning, particularly its effects on vulnerable populations such as the indigenous people of Australia. We…

cs.CR2024

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…

cs.CR2024★ 24 cited

Is Your Kettle Smarter Than a Hacker? A Scalable Tool for Assessing Replay Attack Vulnerabilities on Consumer IoT Devices

Sara Lazzaro, Vincenzo De Angelis, Anna Maria Mandalari +1

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices often leverage the local network to communicate with the corresponding companion app or other devices. This has benefits in terms of effic…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

Who Let the Smart Toaster Hack the House? An Investigation into the Security Vulnerabilities of Consumer IoT Devices

Yang Li, Anna Maria Mandalari, Isabel Straw

For smart homes to be safe homes, they must be designed with security in mind. Yet, despite the widespread proliferation of connected digital technologies in the home environment,…

cs.CR2023

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…

eess.SY2022★ 2 cited

PRISM: Privacy Preserving Healthcare Internet of Things Security Management

Savvas Hadjixenophontos, Anna Maria Mandalari, Yuchen Zhao +1

Consumer healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) devices are gaining popularity in our homes and hospitals. These devices provide continuous monitoring at a low cost and can be used to…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Rapid IoT Device Identification at the Edge

Oliver Thompson, Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed Haddadi

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly common in everyday homes, from smart speakers to security cameras. Along with their benefits come potential privacy and s…

cs.CR2021

Revisiting IoT Device Identification

Roman Kolcun, Diana Andreea Popescu, Vadim Safronov +4

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are known to be the source of many security problems, and as such, they would greatly benefit from automated management. This requires robustly ide…

cs.NI2021★ 1 cited

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…

cs.NI2020★ 17 cited

The Case for Retraining of ML Models for IoT Device Identification at the Edge

Roman Kolcun, Diana Andreea Popescu, Vadim Safronov +5

Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are known to be the source of many security problems, and as such they would greatly benefit from automated management. This requires robustly iden…

cs.NI2020★ 5 cited

A Haystack Full of Needles: Scalable Detection of IoT Devices in the Wild

Said Jawad Saidi, Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun +5

Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are extremely popular, providing users with rich and diverse functionalities, from voice assistants to home appliances. These functionalit…

cs.NI2020★ 3 cited

Towards Automatic Identification and Blocking of Non-Critical IoT Traffic Destinations

Anna Maria Mandalari, Roman Kolcun, Hamed Haddadi +2

The consumer Internet of Things (IoT) space has experienced a significant rise in popularity in the recent years. From smart speakers, to baby monitors, and smart kettles and TVs,…

cs.NI2017★ 4 cited

Tracking the Big NAT across Europe and the U.S

Anna Maria Mandalari, Andra Lutu, Amogh Dhamdhere +2

Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) mechanisms enable ISPs to share a single IPv4 address across multiple customers, thus offering an immediate solution to the IPv4 address scarcity problem. I…