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most citedTechnical Aspects of Cyber Kill Chain

181 citations · 202 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CR2025

Passwords and FIDO2 Are Meant To Be Secret: A Practical Secure Authentication Channel for Web Browsers

Anuj Gautam, Tarun Yadav, Garrett Smith +2

Password managers provide significant security benefits to users. However, malicious client-side scripts and browser extensions can steal passwords after the manager has autofilled…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Passwords Are Meant to Be Secret: A Practical Secure Password Entry Channel for Web Browsers

Anuj Gautam, Tarun Kumar Yadav, Kent Seamons +1

Password-based authentication faces various security and usability issues. Password managers help alleviate some of these issues by enabling users to manage their passwords effecti…

cs.CR2023

InfoGuard: A Design and Usability Study of User-Controlled Application-Independent Encryption for Privacy-Conscious Users

Tarun Yadav, Austin Cook, Justin Hales +1

Billions of secure messaging users have adopted end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Nevertheless, challenges remain. Most communication applications do not provide E2EE, and application…

cs.CR2023

A Security and Usability Analysis of Local Attacks Against FIDO2

Tarun Kumar Yadav, Kent Seamons

The FIDO2 protocol aims to strengthen or replace password authentication using public-key cryptography. FIDO2 has primarily focused on defending against attacks from afar by remote…

cs.CR2022

Automatic Detection of Fake Key Attacks in Secure Messaging

Tarun Kumar Yadav, Devashish Gosain, Amir Herzberg +2

Popular instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Signal provide end-to-end encryption for billions of users. They rely on a centralized, application-specific server to d…

cs.NI2019★ 1 cited

Identification of Bugs and Vulnerabilities in TLS Implementation for Windows Operating System Using State Machine Learning

Tarun Yadav, Koustav Sadhukhan

TLS protocol is an essential part of secure Internet communication. In past, many attacks have been identified on the protocol. Most of these attacks are due to flaws in protocol i…

cs.CY2018★ 10 cited

Where The Light Gets In: Analyzing Web Censorship Mechanisms in India

Tarun Kumar Yadav, Akshat Sinha, Devashish Gosain +2

This paper presents a detailed study of the Internet censorship in India. We consolidated a list of potentially blocked websites from various public sources to assess censorship me…

cs.NI2016★ 181 cited

Technical Aspects of Cyber Kill Chain

Tarun Yadav, Rao Arvind Mallari

Recent trends in targeted cyber-attacks has increased the interest of research in the field of cyber security. Such attacks have massive disruptive effects on rganizations, enterpr…

cs.NI2016★ 5 cited

Cyber Attack Thread: A Control-flow Based Approach to Deconstruct and Mitigate Cyber Threats

Koustav Sadhukhan, Rao Arvind Mallari, Tarun Yadav

Attacks in cyberspace have got attention due to risk at privacy, breach of trust and financial losses for individuals as well as organizations. In recent years, these attacks have…

cs.DS2016★ 4 cited

Approximation Algorithm for N-distance Minimal Vertex Cover Problem

Tarun Yadav, Koustav Sadhukhan, Rao Arvind Mallari

Evolution of large scale networks demand for efficient way of communication in the networks. One way to propagate information in the network is to find vertex cover. In this paper…