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Comparison of Multilingual and Bilingual Models for Satirical News Detection of Arabic and English
Omar W. Abdalla, Aditya Joshi, Rahat Masood +1
Satirical news is real news combined with a humorous comment or exaggerated content, and it often mimics the format and style of real news. However, satirical news is often misunde…
BotSSCL: Social Bot Detection with Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Navid Shadman Bhuiyan, Rahat Masood +2
The detection of automated accounts, also known as "social bots", has been an increasingly important concern for online social networks (OSNs). While several methods have been prop…
False Information, Bots and Malicious Campaigns: Demystifying Elements of Social Media Manipulations
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Rahat Masood, Muhammad Ikram +1
The rapid spread of false information and persistent manipulation attacks on online social networks (OSNs), often for political, ideological, or financial gain, has affected the op…
Usability of Privacy Controls in Top Health Websites
Ravin Gunawardena, Yuemeng Yin, Yi Huang +5
With the increasing awareness and concerns around privacy, many service providers offer their users various privacy controls. Through these controls, users gain greater authority o…
Machine Learning-based Automatic Annotation and Detection of COVID-19 Fake News
Mohammad Majid Akhtar, Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake +3
COVID-19 impacted every part of the world, although the misinformation about the outbreak traveled faster than the virus. Misinformation spread through online social networks (OSN)…
Privacy Preserving Release of Mobile Sensor Data
Rahat Masood, Wing Yan Cheng, Dinusha Vatsalan +3
Sensors embedded in mobile smart devices can monitor users' activity with high accuracy to provide a variety of services to end-users ranging from precise geolocation, health monit…
A Study of Third-party Resources Loading on Web
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson +2
This paper performs a large-scale study of dependency chains in the web, to find that around 50% of first-party websites render content that they did not directly load. Although th…
Don't be a Victim During a Pandemic! Analysing Security and Privacy Threats in Twitter During COVID-19
Bibhas Sharma, Ishan Karunanayake, Rahat Masood +1
There has been a huge spike in the usage of social media platforms during the COVID-19 lockdowns. These lockdown periods have resulted in a set of new cybercrimes, thereby allowing…
Security Apps under the Looking Glass: An Empirical Analysis of Android Security Apps
Weixian Yao, Yexuan Li, Weiye Lin +4
Third-party security apps are an integral part of the Android app ecosystem. Many users install them as an extra layer of protection for their devices. There are hundreds of such s…
A Review of Computer Vision Methods in Network Security
Jiawei Zhao, Rahat Masood, Suranga Seneviratne
Network security has become an area of significant importance more than ever as highlighted by the eye-opening numbers of data breaches, attacks on critical infrastructure, and mal…
The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson +3
The Web is a tangled mass of interconnected services, where websites import a range of external resources from various third-party domains. However, the latter can further load res…