6 papers
Building Europe's Quantum Shield: The Strategic view for a Continent-Wide Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Infrastructure
Leandros Maglaras, Ilias Papastamatiou, Alexios Aivaliotis +2
The fast growth of quantum computing can lead to amazing scientific breakthroughs while on the same time can be used to break today's security systems, raising new risks for existi…
Paid to Look Like Truth: The Prevalence and Dark Patterns of Advertorials in News Outlets
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
A reader browsing through an online article is highly likely to encounter an advertorial, often without realizing it. Advertorials represent a relatively new marketing strategy whe…
Before & After: The Effect of EU's 2022 Code of Practice on Disinformation
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nicolas Kourtellis +1
Over the past few years, the European Commission has made significant steps to reduce disinformation in cyberspace. One of those steps has been the introduction of the 2022 "Streng…
Welcome to the Dark Side: Analyzing the Revenue Flows of Fraud in the Online Ad Ecosystem
Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Nicolas Kourtellis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +1
The online advertising market has recently reached the 500 billion dollar mark. To accommodate the need to match a user with the highest bidder at a fraction of a second, it has mo…
I Know What You Bought Last Summer: Investigating User Data Leakage in E-Commerce Platforms
Ioannis Vlachogiannakis, Emmanouil Papadogiannakis, Panagiotis Papadopoulos +2
In the digital age, e-commerce has transformed the way consumers shop, offering convenience and accessibility. Nevertheless, concerns about the privacy and security of personal inf…
FNDaaS: Content-agnostic Detection of Fake News sites
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Dimitris Spithouris, Evangelos P. Markatos +1
Automatic fake news detection is a challenging problem in misinformation spreading, and it has tremendous real-world political and social impacts. Past studies have proposed machin…