5 papers
When Apps Outlive Vendors: Security Implications of IoT Abandonware
Dayeon Kang, Elvis Yeboah-Duako, Sachin Thomas +1
As the Internet of Things (IoT) market continues to expand, many companion apps are being published in app stores, raising security concerns for those whose vendors have abandoned…
Permissions on the Loose: Measuring Overprivilege in Real-World Serverless Applications
Elvis Yeboah-Duako, Pubali Datta
Serverless computing has seen rapid adoption in cloud deployments, yet the security implications of its service-oriented programming model remain poorly understood. Distributed, mo…
Whose Agent Are You? Multi-Layer Fingerprinting and Attribution of Autonomous Web Agents
Dayeon Kang, Hyejun Jeong, Jade Sheffey +2
As AI web agents proliferate, combining large language models with autonomous, browser-level control, indiscriminate content scraping by web agents has emerged as a privacy and sec…
CensorLess: Cost-Efficient Censorship Circumvention Through Serverless Cloud Functions
Dayeon Kang, Jade Sheffey, Mingshi Wu +2
With the increase in Internet censorship globally, various circumvention tools have been designed and developed. However, the monetary cost of these tools deeply impacts both user…
International Students and Scams: At Risk Abroad
Katherine Zhang, Arjun Arunasalam, Pubali Datta +1
International students (IntlS) in the US refer to foreign students who acquire student visas to study in the US, primarily in higher education. As IntlS arrive in the US, they face…