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8 papers
A Deep Learning Approach for Imbalanced Tabular Data in Advertiser Prospecting: A Case of Direct Mail Prospecting
Sadegh Farhang, William Hayes, Nick Murphy +2
Acquiring new customers is a vital process for growing businesses. Prospecting is the process of identifying and marketing to potential customers using methods ranging from online…
An Empirical Study of Android Security Bulletins in Different Vendors
Sadegh Farhang, Mehmet Bahadir Kirdan, Aron Laszka +1
Mobile devices encroach on almost every part of our lives, including work and leisure, and contain a wealth of personal and sensitive information. It is, therefore, imperative that…
Hey Google, What Exactly Do Your Security Patches Tell Us? A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Android Patched Vulnerabilities
Sadegh Farhang, Mehmet Bahadir Kirdan, Aron Laszka +1
In this paper, we perform a comprehensive study of 2,470 patched Android vulnerabilities that we collect from different data sources such as Android security bulletins, CVEDetails,…
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…
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…
Flip the Cloud: Cyber-Physical Signaling Games in the Presence of Advanced Persistent Threats
Jeffrey Pawlick, Sadegh Farhang, Quanyan Zhu
Access to the cloud has the potential to provide scalable and cost effective enhancements of physical devices through the use of advanced computational processes run on apparently…