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An Economic Study of the Effect of Android Platform Fragmentation on Security Updates
Sadegh Farhang, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags
Vendors in the Android ecosystem typically customize their devices by modifying Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code, adding in-house developed proprietary software, and pre-ins…
Practical Integer Overflow Prevention
Paul Muntean, Jens Grossklags, Claudia Eckert
Integer overflows in commodity software are a main source for software bugs, which can result in exploitable memory corruption vulnerabilities and may eventually contribute to powe…
Enemy At the Gateways: A Game Theoretic Approach to Proxy Distribution
Milad Nasr, Sadegh Farhang, Amir Houmansadr +1
A core technique used by popular proxy-based circumvention systems like Tor, Psiphon, and Lantern is to secretly share the IP addresses of circumvention proxies with the censored c…
On the Economics of Ransomware
Aron Laszka, Sadegh Farhang, Jens Grossklags
While recognized as a theoretical and practical concept for over 20 years, only now ransomware has taken centerstage as one of the most prevalent cybercrimes. Various reports demon…
When to Invest in Security? Empirical Evidence and a Game-Theoretic Approach for Time-Based Security
Sadegh Farhang, Jens Grossklags
Games of timing aim to determine the optimal defense against a strategic attacker who has the technical capability to breach a system in a stealthy fashion. Key questions arising a…