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Improving Generalization on Cybersecurity Tasks with Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning
Jianan Huang, Rodolfo V. Valentim, Luca Vassio +4
The use of ML in cybersecurity has long been impaired by generalization issues: Models that work well in controlled scenarios fail to maintain performance in production. The root c…
Analyzing BEV Suitability and Charging Strategies Using Italian Driving Data
Homa Jamalof, Luca Vassio, Danilo Giordano +2
Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are rapidly evolving from a niche alternative to an established option for private transportation, often replacing Internal Combustion Engine (ICE)…
Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Pietro Armenante, Kai Huang, Nikhil Jha +1
Origin-Destination (OD) matrices are a core component of research on users' mobility and summarize how individuals move between geographical regions. These regions should be small…
Join the Chat: How Curiosity Sparks Participation in Telegram Groups
Giordano Paoletti, Jussara M. Almeida, Luca Vassio +2
This study delves into the mechanisms that spark user curiosity driving active engagement within public Telegram groups. By analyzing approximately 6 million messages from 29,196 u…
Topic-wise Exploration of the Telegram Group-verse
Alessandro Perlo, Giordano Paoletti, Nikhil Jha +3
Although Telegram is currently one of the most popular instant messaging apps in the world, previous studies have mainly focused on analysing discussions on specific angles and top…
Dynamic Cluster Analysis to Detect and Track Novelty in Network Telescopes
Kai Huang, Luca Gioacchini, Marco Mellia +1
In the context of cybersecurity, tracking the activities of coordinated hosts over time is a daunting task because both participants and their behaviours evolve at a fast pace. We…
Benchmarking Evolutionary Community Detection Algorithms in Dynamic Networks
Giordano Paoletti, Luca Gioacchini, Marco Mellia +2
In dynamic complex networks, entities interact and form network communities that evolve over time. Among the many static Community Detection (CD) solutions, the modularity-based Lo…
LogPrécis: Unleashing Language Models for Automated Malicious Log Analysis
Matteo Boffa, Rodolfo Vieira Valentim, Luca Vassio +4
The collection of security-related logs holds the key to understanding attack behaviors and diagnosing vulnerabilities. Still, their analysis remains a daunting challenge. Recently…
Recommendation Systems in Libraries: an Application with Heterogeneous Data Sources
Alessandro Speciale, Greta Vallero, Luca Vassio +1
The Reading&Machine project exploits the support of digitalization to increase the attractiveness of libraries and improve the users' experience. The project implements an applicat…
User Value in Modern Payment Platforms: A Graph Approach
Laura Arditti, Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio +2
Payment platforms have significantly evolved in recent years to keep pace with the proliferation of online and cashless payments. These platforms are increasingly aligned with onli…
On the Dynamics of Political Discussions on Instagram: A Network Perspective
Carlos H. G. Ferreira, Fabricio Murai, Ana P. C. Silva +5
Instagram has been increasingly used as a source of information especially among the youth. As a result, political figures now leverage the platform to spread opinions and politica…
The Internet with Privacy Policies: Measuring The Web Upon Consent
Nikhil Jha, Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio +1
To protect users' privacy, legislators have regulated the usage of tracking technologies, mandating the acquisition of users' consent before collecting data. Consequently, websites…
z-anonymity: Zero-Delay Anonymization for Data Streams
Nikhil Jha, Thomas Favale, Luca Vassio +2
With the advent of big data and the birth of the data markets that sell personal information, individuals' privacy is of utmost importance. The classical response is anonymization,…
Debate on Online Social Networks at the Time of COVID-19: An Italian Case Study
Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio, Danilo Giordano
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only having a heavy impact on healthcare but also changing people's habits and the society we live in. Countries such as Italy have enforced a total lo…
RL-IoT: Reinforcement Learning to Interact with IoT Devices
Giulia Milan, Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago +1
Our life is getting filled by Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These devices often rely on closed or poorly documented protocols, with unknown formats and semantics. Learning how…
A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow
Andrea Di Domenico, Gianluca Perna, Martino Trevisan +2
Cloud gaming is a new class of services that promises to revolutionize the videogame market. It allows the user to play a videogame with basic equipment while using a remote server…
Characterizing web pornography consumption from passive measurements
Andrea Morichetta, Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio
Web pornography represents a large fraction of the Internet traffic, with thousands of websites and millions of users. Studying web pornography consumption allows understanding hum…
Towards Understanding Political Interactions on Instagram
Martino Trevisan, Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago +5
Online Social Networks (OSNs) allow personalities and companies to communicate directly with the public, bypassing filters of traditional medias. As people rely on OSNs to stay up-…
You, the Web and Your Device: Longitudinal Characterization of Browsing Habits
Luca Vassio, Idilio Drago, Marco Mellia +2
Understanding how people interact with the web is key for a variety of applications, e.g., from the design of effective web pages to the definition of successful online marketing c…
The Exploitation of Web Navigation Data: Ethical Issues and Alternative Scenarios
Luca Vassio, Hassan Metwalley, Danilo Giordano
Nowadays, the users' browsing activity on the Internet is not completely private due to many entities that collect and use such data, either for legitimate or illegal goals. The im…