Reality Check for Tor Website Fingerprinting in the Open World

Website fingerprinting WF attacks on Tor can infer user destinations from encrypted traffic metadata. However, their real-world effectiveness remains debated due to laboratory settings that fail to capture network fluctuations, evaluate noise, and create a representative open world. In this work,...

MiracleLinux 9 : webkit2gtk3-2.46.1-2.el9_4 (AXSA:2024-8945:04)

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2024-8945:04 advisory. webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use after free may lead to Remote Code Execution CVE-2024-40776 webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web...

Beyond a Single Perspective: Towards a Realistic Evaluation of Website Fingerprinting Attacks

Website Fingerprinting WF attacks exploit patterns in encrypted traffic to infer the websites visited by users, posing a serious threat to anonymous communication systems. Although recent WF techniques achieve over 90% accuracy in controlled experimental settings, most studies remain confined to...

A Comprehensive Survey of Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses in Tor: Advances and Open Challenges

The Tor network provides users with strong anonymity by routing their internet traffic through multiple relays. While Tor encrypts traffic and hides IP addresses, it remains vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks such as the website fingerprinting WF attack, achieving increasingly high...

DRAM Related Side Channel Attacks

Summary Researchers have provided AMD with a paper titled “Quo VADIS DDR5? Verifying Addressing of DRAM In Software.” In this paper, the authors present an approach to verifying DRAM addressing functions from software using the DRAM row conflict side channel. The authors claim that the presented...

Unlearning-Enhanced Website Fingerprinting Attack: against Backdoor Poisoning in Anonymous Networks

Website Fingerprinting WF is an effective tool for regulating and governing the dark web. However, its performance can be significantly degraded by backdoor poisoning attacks in practical deployments. This paper aims to address the problem of hidden backdoor poisoning attacks faced by Website...

TSA-WF: Exploring the Effectiveness of Time Series Analysis for Website Fingerprinting

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Researchers Uncover New Attacks Against LTE Network Protocol

If your mobile carrier offers LTE, also known as the 4G network, you need to beware as your network communication can be hijacked remotely. A team of researchers has discovered some critical weaknesses in the ubiquitous LTE mobile device standard that could allow sophisticated hackers to spy on...