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Understanding the "Airport" Censorship Circumvention Ecosystem in China
Rumaisa Habib, Mingshi Wu, Shiva Shahandeh +3
In China, a burgeoning underground market sells citizens subscription-based censorship circumvention proxies known as ''airports''. We present the first systematic study of this ec…
Keys on Doormats: Exposed API Credentials on the Web
Nurullah Demir, Yash Vekaria, Georgios Smaragdakis +1
API (Application Programming Interface) keys allow applications to authenticate themselves to third-party services. Inadvertent public exposure of these credentials can pose signif…
Hierarchical Level-Wise News Article Clustering via Multilingual Matryoshka Embeddings
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Contextual large language model embeddings are increasingly utilized for topic modeling and clustering. However, current methods often scale poorly, rely on opaque similarity metri…
User Profiles: The Achilles' Heel of Web Browsers
Dolière Francis Somé, Moaz Airan, Zakir Durumeric +1
Web browsers provide the security foundation for our online experiences. Significant research has been done into the security of browsers themselves, but relatively little investig…
Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites
Hans W. A. Hanley, Emily Okabe, Zakir Durumeric
Understanding how misleading and outright false information enters news ecosystems remains a difficult challenge that requires tracking how narratives spread across thousands of fr…
Characterizing the MrDeepFakes Sexual Deepfake Marketplace
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar +1
The prevalence of sexual deepfake material has exploded over the past several years. Attackers create and utilize deepfakes for many reasons: to seek sexual gratification, to haras…
On the Centralization and Regionalization of the Web
Gautam Akiwate, Kimberly Ruth, Rumaisa Habib +1
Over the past decade, Internet centralization and its implications for both people and the resilience of the Internet has become a topic of active debate. While the networking comm…
Ten Years of ZMap
Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Phillip Stephens +2
Since ZMap's debut in 2013, networking and security researchers have used the open-source scanner to write hundreds of research papers that study Internet behavior. In addition, ZM…
The Code the World Depends On: A First Look at Technology Makers' Open Source Software Dependencies
Cadence Patrick, Kimberly Ruth, Zakir Durumeric
Open-source software (OSS) supply chain security has become a topic of concern for organizations. Patching an OSS vulnerability can require updating other dependent software produc…
CATO: End-to-End Optimization of ML-Based Traffic Analysis Pipelines
Gerry Wan, Shinan Liu, Francesco Bronzino +2
Machine learning has shown tremendous potential for improving the capabilities of network traffic analysis applications, often outperforming simpler rule-based heuristics. However,…
PressProtect: Helping Journalists Navigate Social Media in the Face of Online Harassment
Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar +1
Social media has become a critical tool for journalists to disseminate their work, engage with their audience, and connect with sources. Unfortunately, journalists also regularly e…
TATA: Stance Detection via Topic-Agnostic and Topic-Aware Embeddings
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Stance detection is important for understanding different attitudes and beliefs on the Internet. However, given that a passage's stance toward a given topic is often highly depende…
Cloud Watching: Understanding Attacks Against Cloud-Hosted Services
Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Michalis Kallitsis +2
Cloud computing has dramatically changed service deployment patterns. In this work, we analyze how attackers identify and target cloud services in contrast to traditional enterpris…
Stratosphere: Finding Vulnerable Cloud Storage Buckets
Jack Cable, Drew Gregory, Liz Izhikevich +1
Misconfigured cloud storage buckets have leaked hundreds of millions of medical, voter, and customer records. These breaches are due to a combination of easily-guessable bucket nam…
ZDNS: A Fast DNS Toolkit for Internet Measurement
Liz Izhikevich, Gautam Akiwate, Briana Berger +5
Active DNS measurement is fundamental to understanding and improving the DNS ecosystem. However, the absence of an extensible, high-performance, and easy-to-use DNS toolkit has lim…
Watch Your Language: Investigating Content Moderation with Large Language Models
Deepak Kumar, Yousef AbuHashem, Zakir Durumeric
Large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity due to their ability to perform a wide array of natural language tasks. Text-based content moderation is one LLM use case t…
Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric
Misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies proliferate on the web, with some narratives having dangerous real-world consequences on public health, elections, and individual safe…
Twits, Toxic Tweets, and Tribal Tendencies: Trends in Politically Polarized Posts on Twitter
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
Social media platforms are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization and worsening public dialogue. Many claim that hyperpartisan users post pernicious content, slanted…
Democratizing LEO Satellite Network Measurement
Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Katherine Izhikevich +2
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite networks are quickly gaining traction with promises of impressively low latency, high bandwidth, and global reach. However, the research community k…
Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have gained traction, an increasing number of news websites have begun utilizing them to generate articles. However, not only can these…
Predicting IPv4 Services Across All Ports
Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, Zakir Durumeric
Internet-wide scanning is commonly used to understand the topology and security of the Internet. However, IPv4 Internet scans have been limited to scanning only a subset of service…
Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance
Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar +2
In the summer of 2021, users on the livestreaming platform Twitch were targeted by a wave of "hate raids," a form of attack that overwhelms a streamer's chatroom with hateful messa…
LZR: Identifying Unexpected Internet Services
Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, Zakir Durumeric
Internet-wide scanning is a commonly used research technique that has helped uncover real-world attacks, find cryptographic weaknesses, and understand both operator and miscreant b…
Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation's Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions on Reddit
Hans W. A. Hanley, Zakir Durumeric
In this work, we examine the influence of unreliable information on political incivility and toxicity on the social media platform Reddit. We show that comments on articles from un…