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cs.CR2026

Physical Side-Channel Attacks on Edge LLMs: Extracting Output Tokens and User Prompts

Najeh Alhalawani, Gunes Acar, Zhuoran Liu +1

The deployment of large language models (LLMs) on edge devices is largely motivated by privacy concerns over sharing sensitive user data with cloud servers. In this paper, we demon…

cs.CR2025

SoK: Advances and Open Problems in Web Tracking

Yash Vekaria, Yohan Beugin, Shaoor Munir +11

Web tracking is a pervasive and opaque practice that enables personalized advertising, retargeting, and conversion tracking. Over time, it has evolved into a sophisticated and inva…

cs.CR2021★ 1 cited

The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion

Yana Dimova, Gunes Acar, Lukasz Olejnik +2

Online tracking is a whack-a-mole game between trackers who build and monetize behavioral user profiles through intrusive data collection, and anti-tracking mechanisms, deployed as…

cs.CR2019★ 125 cited

IoT Inspector: Crowdsourcing Labeled Network Traffic from Smart Home Devices at Scale

Danny Yuxing Huang, Noah Apthorpe, Gunes Acar +2

The proliferation of smart home devices has created new opportunities for empirical research in ubiquitous computing, ranging from security and privacy to personal health. Yet, dat…

cs.CR2017★ 36 cited

How Unique is Your .onion? An Analysis of the Fingerprintability of Tor Onion Services

Rebekah Overdorf, Marc Juarez, Gunes Acar +2

Recent studies have shown that Tor onion (hidden) service websites are particularly vulnerable to website fingerprinting attacks due to their limited number and sensitive nature. I…