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03/31/2023
The Blockchain Imitation Game
The use of blockchains for automated and adversarial trading has become ...
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03/07/2022
Blocked or Broken? Automatically Detecting When Privacy Interventions Break Websites
A core problem in the development and maintenance of crowd-sourced filte...
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12/12/2021
Pool-Party: Exploiting Browser Resource Pools as Side-Channels for Web Tracking
We identify a new class of side-channels in browsers that are not mitiga...
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09/23/2021
Towards Private On-Chain Algorithmic Trading
While quantitative automation related to trading crypto-assets such as E...
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09/21/2021
STAR: Distributed Secret Sharing for Private Threshold Aggregation Reporting
In practice and research, threshold aggregation systems – that attempt...
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09/16/2021
PrivateFetch: Scalable Catalog Delivery in Privacy-Preserving Advertising
In order to preserve the possibility of an Internet that is free at the ...
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09/14/2021
What's in Your Wallet? Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0
Much of the recent excitement around decentralized finance (DeFi) comes ...
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06/03/2021
THEMIS: A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity
Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...
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05/09/2021
Stronger Privacy for Federated Collaborative Filtering with Implicit Feedback
Recommender systems are commonly trained on centrally collected user int...
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03/03/2021
On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols
In this paper, we investigate two methods that allow us to automatically...
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02/15/2021
Browselite: A Private Data Saving Solution for the Web
The median webpage has increased in size by more than 80 years. This ext...
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11/02/2020
There's No Trick, Its Just a Simple Trick: A Web-Compat and Privacy Improving Approach to Third-party Web Storage
While much current web privacy research focuses on browser fingerprintin...
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08/06/2020
On the Battery Consumption of Mobile Browsers
Mobile web browsing has recently surpassed desktop browsing both in term...
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07/10/2020
THEMIS: Decentralized and Trustless Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity
Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...
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03/08/2020
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
Credit allows a lender to loan out surplus capital to a borrower. In the...
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03/05/2020
We Know What They've Been Put Through: Revisiting High-scalability Blockchain Transactions
Scalability has been a bottleneck for major blockchains such as Bitcoin ...
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02/19/2020
The Decentralized Financial Crisis: Attacking DeFi
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008, caused by excessive financial risk,...
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11/18/2019
ZKSENSE: a Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Bot Detection in Mobile Devices
CAPTCHA systems have been widely deployed to identify and block fraudule...
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10/20/2019
BatteryLab, A Distributed Power Monitoring Platform For Mobile Devices
Recent advances in cloud computing have simplified the way that both sof...
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10/16/2019
Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions
Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting w...
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09/16/2019
Broken Metre: Attacking Resource Metering in EVM
Metering is an approach developed to assign cost to smart contract execu...
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05/21/2019
The Blind Men and the Internet: Multi-Vantage Point Web Measurements
In this paper, we design and deploy a synchronized multi-vantage point w...
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05/17/2019
Percival: Making In-Browser Perceptual Ad Blocking Practical With Deep Learning
Online advertising has been a long-standing concern for user privacy and...
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02/18/2019
Another Brick in the Paywall: The Popularity and Privacy Implications of Paywalls
Funding the production and distribution of quality online content is an ...
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02/18/2019
Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Does Anyone Care?
In the last year we have seen a great deal of both academic and practica...
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01/11/2019
Static Analysis for Asynchronous JavaScript Programs
Asynchrony has become an inherent element of JavaScript, as an effort to...
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11/25/2018
The Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Scheme
While pump-and-dump schemes have attracted the attention of cryptocurren...
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11/20/2018
Evaluating the End-User Experience of Private Browsing Mode
Nowadays, all major web browsers have a private browsing mode. However, ...
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11/08/2018
SpeedReader: Reader Mode Made Fast and Private
Most popular web browsers include "reader modes" that improve the user e...
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10/22/2018
Who Filters the Filters: Understanding the Growth, Usefulness and Efficiency of Crowdsourced Ad Blocking
Ad and tracking blocking extensions are among the most popular browser e...
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10/03/2018
A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation
Decentralized content curation is the process through which uploaded pos...
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05/22/2018
AdGraph: A Machine Learning Approach to Automatic and Effective Adblocking
Filter lists are widely deployed by adblockers to block ads and other fo...
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05/10/2018
EthIR: A Framework for High-Level Analysis of Ethereum Bytecode
Analyzing Ethereum bytecode, rather than the source code from which it w...
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02/24/2018