The Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) attack is one of the most well known attacks in computer
security, representing one of the biggest concerns for security professionals. MITM targets …

In this article, we survey the most common attacks against web sessions, that is, attacks that
target honest web browser users establishing an authenticated session with a trusted web …

Internet users today depend daily on HTTPS for secure communication with sites they intend
to visit. Over the years, many attacks on HTTPS and the certificate trust model it uses have …

TLS was designed as a transparent channel abstraction to allow developers with no
cryptographic expertise to protect their application against attackers that may control some …

Traditional X. 509 public key infrastructures (PKIs) depend on trusted certification authorities
(CAs) to sign certificates, used in SSL/TLS to authenticate web servers and establish secure …

Modern network security rests on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer
Security (TLS) protocols. Distributed systems, mobile and desktop applications, embedded …

The SSL man-in-the-middle attack uses forged SSL certificates to intercept encrypted
connections between clients and servers. However, due to a lack of reliable indicators, it is …

Fog computing extends cloud computing to the edge of a network enabling new Internet of
Things (IoT) applications and services, which may involve critical data that require privacy …

Device fingerprinting is commonly used for tracking users. We explore device fingerprinting
but in the specific context of use for augmenting authentication, providing a state-of-the-art …

Controlled sharing is fundamental to distributed systems; yet, on the Web, and in the Cloud,
sharing is still based on rudimentary mechanisms. More flexible, decentralized …