Measuring Post-Quantum TLS Deployment across UK Internet Sectors

Post-quantum cryptography PQC is becoming an important component of long-term trust in Internet-facing infrastructure. Publicly observable PQC support provides evidence of externally visible deployment, but does not necessarily reflect the overall progress of an organisation's post-quantum...

Detecting Bot Detection: Prevalence, Techniques, and Implications for Web Measurement Research

Browser automation frameworks are essential tools for security and privacy research on the web, yet bot detection scripts increasingly probe their artifacts, threatening measurement validity as automated browsers may be blocked or served different content. Prior work measures detection deployment...

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...