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most citedUser Blocking Considered Harmful? An Attacker-controllable Side Channel to Identify Social Accounts

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cs.SI2026

The Impact of Micro-level User Interventions on Macro-level Misinformation Spread

Satoshi Furutani, Toshiki Shibahara, Mitsuaki Akiyama

User interventions such as nudges, prebunking, and contextualization have been widely studied as countermeasures against misinformation, and shown to suppress individual users' sha…

cs.SI2025

Network Prebunking Problem: Optimizing Prebunking Targets to Suppress the Spread of Misinformation in Social Networks

Satoshi Furutani, Toshiki Shibahara, Mitsuaki Akiyama +1

As a countermeasure against misinformation that undermines the healthy use of social media, a preventive intervention known as \textit{prebunking} has recently attracted attention…

cs.CR2023

How WEIRD is Usable Privacy and Security Research? (Extended Version)

Ayako A. Hasegawa, Daisuke Inoue, Mitsuaki Akiyama

In human factor fields such as human-computer interaction (HCI) and psychology, researchers have been concerned that participants mostly come from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industr…

cs.CR2022

Interpreting Graph-based Sybil Detection Methods as Low-Pass Filtering

Satoshi Furutani, Toshiki Shibahara, Mitsuaki Akiyama +1

Online social networks (OSNs) are threatened by Sybil attacks, which create fake accounts (also called Sybils) on OSNs and use them for various malicious activities. Therefore, Syb…

cs.CY2021

A First Look at COVID-19 Domain Names: Origin and Implications

Ryo Kawaoka, Daiki Chiba, Takuya Watanabe +2

This work takes a first look at domain names related to COVID-19 (Cov19doms in short), using a large-scale registered Internet domain name database, which accounts for 260M of dist…

cs.CR2018★ 2 cited

User Blocking Considered Harmful? An Attacker-controllable Side Channel to Identify Social Accounts

Takuya Watanabe, Eitaro Shioji, Mitsuaki Akiyama +3

This paper presents a practical side-channel attack that identifies the social web service account of a visitor to an attacker's website. Our attack leverages the widely adopted us…

cs.CR2017★ 1 cited

A Study on the Vulnerabilities of Mobile Apps associated with Software Modules

Takuya Watanabe, Mitsuaki Akiyama, Fumihiro Kanei +7

This paper reports a large-scale study that aims to understand how mobile application (app) vulnerabilities are associated with software libraries. We analyze both free and paid ap…