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Technical Report: Friend-in-the-Middle (FITM) Attacks

Abstract. In the ongoing arms race between spammers and the multi-million dollar anti-spam industry, the number of unsolicited e-mail messages (better known as “spam”) and phishing has increased heavily in the last decade. In this paper, we show that our novel friend-in-the-middle attack on social networking sites (SNSs) can be used to harvest social data […]

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research security tor

Tor HTTP usage and Information Leakage

Abstract- This paper analyzes the web browsing behaviour of Tor users. By collecting HTTP requests we show which websites are of interest to Tor users and we determined an upper bound on how vulnerable Tor users are to sophisticated de-anonymization attacks: up to 78 % of the Tor users do not use Tor as suggested […]

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Happy Birtday Spam!

Apparently 30 years ago the first Spam message was sent. Thus happy birthday dear beloved Spam and hopefully we get rid of these messages clogging up our mailboxes soon.