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Don't Trust the Super-App: A Case Study of Russia's Max
Richa Priyanka, Aaron Ortwein, Joel Reardon +3
Super-apps, an emerging mobile architecture, host third-party mini-apps inside a single app, allowing users to access diverse services. A decade of security research on the super-a…
CERTainty: Detecting DNS Manipulation at Scale using TLS Certificates
Elisa Tsai, Deepak Kumar, Ram Sundara Raman +3
DNS manipulation is an increasingly common technique used by censors and other network adversaries to prevent users from accessing restricted Internet resources and hijack their co…
"All of them claim to be the best": Multi-perspective study of VPN users and VPN providers
Reethika Ramesh, Anjali Vyas, Roya Ensafi
As more users adopt VPNs for a variety of reasons, it is important to develop empirical knowledge of their needs and mental models of what a VPN offers. Moreover, studying VPN user…
A Study of Third-party Resources Loading on Web
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson +2
This paper performs a large-scale study of dependency chains in the web, to find that around 50% of first-party websites render content that they did not directly load. Although th…
The Chain of Implicit Trust: An Analysis of the Web Third-party Resources Loading
Muhammad Ikram, Rahat Masood, Gareth Tyson +3
The Web is a tangled mass of interconnected services, where websites import a range of external resources from various third-party domains. However, the latter can further load res…
Identifying and characterizing Sybils in the Tor network
Philipp Winter, Roya Ensafi, Karsten Loesing +1
Being a volunteer-run, distributed anonymity network, Tor is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Little is known about real-world Sybils in the Tor network, and we lack practical tools an…