In order to evaluate the prevalence of security and privacy practices on a representative
sample of the Web, researchers rely on website popularity rankings such as the Alexa list …

Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they ease application
development and enable features such as analytics, social network integration, and app …

A broad range of research areas including Internet measurement, privacy, and network
security rely on lists of target domains to be analysed; researchers make use of target lists …

In order to improve mobile data transparency, various approaches have been proposed to
inspect network traffic generated by mobile devices and detect exposure of personally …

When a domain is registered, information about the registrants and other related personnel
is recorded by WHOIS databases owned by registrars or registries (called WHOIS providers …

Large-scale Web crawls have emerged as the state of the art for studying characteristics of
the Web. In particular, they are a core tool for online tracking research. Web crawling is an …

We investigate data exfiltration by third-party scripts directly embedded on web pages.
Specifically, we study three attacks: misuse of browsers' internal login managers, social data …

As 3D printing technology begins to outpace traditional manufacturing, malicious users
increasingly have sought to leverage this widely accessible platform to produce unlawful …

Targeted online advertising has become an inextricable part of the way Web content and
applications are monetized. At the beginning, online advertising consisted of simple ad …

Internet companies track users' online activity to make inferences about their interests, which
are then used to target ads and personalize their web experience. Prior work has shown that …