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Lost in Translation: Analyzing Non-English Cybercrime Forums

Cybercrime analysis and Cyber Threat Intelligence are crucial for understanding and defending against cyber threats, with online underground communities serving...

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PhD thesis defense: Analysis of quality and transparency in the online advertising ecosystem

This thesis investigates transparency, fairness, and data accuracy in the online advertising ecosystem through large-scale analysis of data from hundreds...

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PhD Thesis defense: Understanding Interconnected Abuse in Consumer Smart Device Ecosystems

Modern consumer smart ecosystems—comprising of mobile and IoT devices, platforms, apps, third-party SDKs, and cloud services—enable pervasive automation and personalization...

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Unravelling the Probabilistic Forest: Arbitrage in Prediction Markets

Polymarket is a prediction market platform where users can speculate on future events by trading shares tied to specific outcomes,...

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Science that helps the Planet (II) at the European Researchers’ Night Madrid 2025 (MSCA and Citizens)

European Researchers’ Night Madrid 2025, coordinated by the Fundación para el Conocimiento madrimasd, is part of the European Horizon Europe...

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PhD Thesis defense: Positioning Systems and the Challenges of Security & Privacy for Real-World Wireless Networks Deployments

This thesis investigates the performance of positioning systems in Wi-Fi and 5G networks using a single node, such as a...

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PhD Thesis defense: Understanding Societal Phenomena and Network Operations with Mobile Metadata

Mobile networks are central to modern digital life, generating vast amounts of metadata that offer valuable insights into human behavior,...

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PhD Thesis defense: Security-Enhanced and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning

This thesis addresses two critical challenges in Federated Learning (FL): enhancing Byzantine robustness to thwart poisoning attacks and advancing privacy-preserving...

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Towards Resilient Decentralized Networked Systems

The increasing reliance on digitally interconnected critical infrastructure creates unprecedented vulnerabilities to large-scale failures, threatening societal stability and economic prosperity....

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Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android

Mobile apps frequently use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and WiFi scanning permissions to discover nearby devices like peripherals and connect...

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