Benjamin Livshits

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∙ 03/31/2023

The Blockchain Imitation Game

The use of blockchains for automated and adversarial trading has become ...

0 Kaihua Qin, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/07/2022

Blocked or Broken? Automatically Detecting When Privacy Interventions Break Websites

A core problem in the development and maintenance of crowd-sourced filte...

0 Michael Smith, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/12/2021

Pool-Party: Exploiting Browser Resource Pools as Side-Channels for Web Tracking

We identify a new class of side-channels in browsers that are not mitiga...

0 Peter Snyder, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/23/2021

Towards Private On-Chain Algorithmic Trading

While quantitative automation related to trading crypto-assets such as E...

0 Ceren Kocaogullar, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/21/2021

STAR: Distributed Secret Sharing for Private Threshold Aggregation Reporting

In practice and research, threshold aggregation systems – that attempt...

0 Alex Davidson, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/16/2021

PrivateFetch: Scalable Catalog Delivery in Privacy-Preserving Advertising

In order to preserve the possibility of an Internet that is free at the ...

0 Muhammad Haris Mughees, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/14/2021

What's in Your Wallet? Privacy and Security Issues in Web 3.0

Much of the recent excitement around decentralized finance (DeFi) comes ...

0 Philipp Winter, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/03/2021

THEMIS: A Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity

Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...

0 Goncalo Pestana, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/09/2021

Stronger Privacy for Federated Collaborative Filtering with Implicit Feedback

Recommender systems are commonly trained on centrally collected user int...

0 Lorenzo Minto, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/03/2021

On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols

In this paper, we investigate two methods that allow us to automatically...

0 Liyi Zhou, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/15/2021

Browselite: A Private Data Saving Solution for the Web

The median webpage has increased in size by more than 80 years. This ext...

0 Conor Kelton, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/02/2020

There's No Trick, Its Just a Simple Trick: A Web-Compat and Privacy Improving Approach to Third-party Web Storage

While much current web privacy research focuses on browser fingerprintin...

0 Jordan Jueckstock, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/06/2020

On the Battery Consumption of Mobile Browsers

Mobile web browsing has recently surpassed desktop browsing both in term...

0 Matteo Varvello, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/10/2020

THEMIS: Decentralized and Trustless Ad Platform with Reporting Integrity

Online advertising fuels the (seemingly) free internet. However, althoug...

0 Goncalo Pestana, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/08/2020

Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit

Credit allows a lender to loan out surplus capital to a borrower. In the...

0 Kaihua Qin, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/05/2020

We Know What They've Been Put Through: Revisiting High-scalability Blockchain Transactions

Scalability has been a bottleneck for major blockchains such as Bitcoin ...

0 Daniel Perez, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/19/2020

The Decentralized Financial Crisis: Attacking DeFi

The Global Financial Crisis of 2008, caused by excessive financial risk,...

0 Lewis Gudgeon, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/18/2019

ZKSENSE: a Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Bot Detection in Mobile Devices

CAPTCHA systems have been widely deployed to identify and block fraudule...

0 Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/20/2019

BatteryLab, A Distributed Power Monitoring Platform For Mobile Devices

Recent advances in cloud computing have simplified the way that both sof...

0 Matteo Varvello, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/16/2019

Filter List Generation for Underserved Regions

Filter lists play a large and growing role in protecting and assisting w...

0 Alexander Sjosten, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/16/2019

Broken Metre: Attacking Resource Metering in EVM

Metering is an approach developed to assign cost to smart contract execu...

0 Daniel Perez, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/21/2019

The Blind Men and the Internet: Multi-Vantage Point Web Measurements

In this paper, we design and deploy a synchronized multi-vantage point w...

0 Jordan Jueckstock, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/17/2019

Percival: Making In-Browser Perceptual Ad Blocking Practical With Deep Learning

Online advertising has been a long-standing concern for user privacy and...

7 Zain ul Abi Din, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/18/2019

Another Brick in the Paywall: The Popularity and Privacy Implications of Paywalls

Funding the production and distribution of quality online content is an ...

0 Panagiotis Papadopoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/18/2019

Smart Contract Vulnerabilities: Does Anyone Care?

In the last year we have seen a great deal of both academic and practica...

0 Daniel Perez, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/11/2019

Static Analysis for Asynchronous JavaScript Programs

Asynchrony has become an inherent element of JavaScript, as an effort to...

0 Thodoris Sotiropoulos, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/25/2018

The Anatomy of a Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Scheme

While pump-and-dump schemes have attracted the attention of cryptocurren...

0 Jiahua Xu, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/20/2018

Evaluating the End-User Experience of Private Browsing Mode

Nowadays, all major web browsers have a private browsing mode. However, ...

0 Ruba Abu-Salma, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/08/2018

SpeedReader: Reader Mode Made Fast and Private

Most popular web browsers include "reader modes" that improve the user e...

0 Mohammad Ghasemisharif, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/22/2018

Who Filters the Filters: Understanding the Growth, Usefulness and Efficiency of Crowdsourced Ad Blocking

Ad and tracking blocking extensions are among the most popular browser e...

0 Antoine Vastel, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/03/2018

A Puff of Steem: Security Analysis of Decentralized Content Curation

Decentralized content curation is the process through which uploaded pos...

0 Aggelos Kiayias, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/22/2018

AdGraph: A Machine Learning Approach to Automatic and Effective Adblocking

Filter lists are widely deployed by adblockers to block ads and other fo...

0 Umar Iqbal, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/10/2018

EthIR: A Framework for High-Level Analysis of Ethereum Bytecode

Analyzing Ethereum bytecode, rather than the source code from which it w...

0 Elvira Albert, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/24/2018

Toward an Evidence-based Design for Reactive Security Policies and Mechanisms

As malware, exploits, and cyber-attacks advance over time, so do the mit...

0 Omer Katz, et al. ∙

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