Empowering Mobile Networks Security Resilience by Using Post-Quantum Cryptography

The transition to a cloud-native 5G Service-Based Architecture SBA improves scalability but exposes control-plane signaling to emerging quantum threats, including Harvest-Now, Decrypt-Later HNDL attacks. While NIST has standardized post-quantum cryptography PQC, practical, deployable integration ...

Is Protective DNS Blocking the Wild West?

We perform a passive measurement study investigating how a Protective DNS service might perform in a Research & Education Network serving hundreds of member institutions. Utilizing freely-available DNS blocklists consisting of domain names deemed to be threats, we test hundreds of millions of...

Tracker Installations Are Not Created Equal: Understanding Tracker Configuration of Form Data Collection

Targeted advertising is fueled by the comprehensive tracking of users' online activity. As a result, advertising companies, such as Google and Meta, encourage website administrators to not only install tracking scripts on their websites but configure them to automatically collect users' Personall...

Cybersquatting in Web3: the Case of NFT

Cybersquatting refers to the practice where attackers register a domain name similar to a legitimate one to confuse users for illegal gains. With the growth of the Non-Fungible Token NFT ecosystem, there are indications that cybersquatting tactics have evolved from targeting domain names to NFTs...