9 papers
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
Application programming interfaces (APIs) have become a central part of the modern IT environment, allowing developers to enrich the functionality of applications and interact with…
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…
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,…
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…
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…