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Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2025

Posted on July 2, 2025 by nsaxena

  • Harnessing Vital Sign Vibration Harmonics for Effortless and Inbuilt XR User Authentication
    Tianfang Zhang, Qiufan Ji, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen
    In the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2025. 

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Paper accepted to ICME 2025

Posted on June 24, 2025 by nsaxena

MarkMatch: Same-Hand Stuffing Detection.
Fei Zhao, Runlin Zhang, Chengcui Zhang, and Nitesh Saxena
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and expo (ICME), June 30-July 4th, 2025.

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SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work in the News

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Jimmy Dani

SPIES Lab’s study, led by Zengrui Liu (former SPIES), Jimmy Dani and Nitesh Saxena, provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking. The researchers discovered that websites are covertly employing browser fingerprinting — a technique that uniquely identifies a web browser — to track users across browsing sessions and sites.

Read our full paper here.

Media outlets featuring our browser fingerprinting work include:

  • Your browser is snitching on you, The Kim Komando Show
  • New Research Provides First Evidence of the Use of Browser Fingerprints for Online Tracking, Soylent News
  • Tracking of Internet users via browser fingerprinting, IT Daily
  • Tracking of Internet users via browser fingerprinting, PCtipp
  • Tracking Internet users via browser fingerprinting, Innovation & Information
  • Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address, The Register
  • Tracking of Internet users via fingerprinting, pressetext
  • New Research Reveals How Websites Secretly Track Users Without Cookies, Israel Homeland Security (iHSL)
  • Your web browser may be spying on you — Even without cookies, Knowridge Science Report
  • VPNs cannot protect against browser fingerprinting – but this new web browser could be the fix, msn.com
  • Researchers Link Browser Fingerprints to Ad Targeting, Undermining Online Privacy Promises, Digital Information World
  • Websites are secretly tracking you using your browser’s ‘fingerprint’, Earth.com
  • Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting, Hacker News
  • Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting, researchers show, Tech Xplore
  • Psylo browser tries to obscure digital fingerprints by giving every tab its own IP address, The Register
  • The browser reveals its identity. Why is this a problem?, gazeta na niedzielę (GNN)
  • Risky Bulletin: Russian hackers abuse app-specific passwords to bypass MFA, RISKY.BIZ
  • Researchers relate browser fingerprints to ad targeting, undermining promises of online privacy., Consultant ALEX BARBOSA
  • VPNs cannot protect against browser fingerprinting – but this new web browser could be the fix, Tech Radar, June 21, 2025

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Journal paper accepted to IEEE TIFS

Posted on June 19, 2025 by nsaxena

Building and Testing a Hidden-Password Online Password Manager
Mohammed Jubur, Chistopher Price, Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk and Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2025

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SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work Features in News

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Jimmy Dani

SPIES Lab’s study, led by Zengrui Liu (former SPIES), Jimmy Dani and Nitesh Saxena, provides the first evidence of the use of browser fingerprints for online tracking. The researchers discovered that websites are covertly employing browser fingerprinting — a technique that uniquely identifies a web browser — to track users across browsing sessions and sites.

Read our full paper here.

Websites Are Tracking You Via Browser Fingerprinting, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University

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Paper Accepted to USENIX Security 2025

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Jimmy Dani

SoK: Inaccessible & Insecure: An Exposition of Authentication Challenges Faced by Blind and Visually Impaired Users in State-of-the-Art Academic Proposals
Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Amanda Lacy, Nitesh Saxena
In 34th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2025.

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2 Papers Accepted to PST 2025

Posted on June 6, 2025 by Jimmy Dani

  • A Machine Learning-Based Framework for Assessing Cryptographic Indistinguishability of Lightweight Block Ciphers
    Jimmy Dani, Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena
    In 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST), August 2025.
  • Encryption Struggles Persist: When Tech-Savvy Students Face Challenges with PGP in Thunderbird
    Md Imanul Huq, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Nitesh Saxena
    In 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST), August 2025.

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Recent News

  • Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2025 July 2, 2025
  • News: Security and Accessibility Gaps in Web Authentication for Blind and Visually Impaired Users June 30, 2025
  • Paper accepted to ICME 2025 June 24, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work in the News June 23, 2025
  • Journal paper accepted to IEEE TIFS June 19, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work Features in News June 18, 2025
  • Paper Accepted to USENIX Security 2025 June 6, 2025
  • 2 Papers Accepted to PST 2025 June 6, 2025
  • AI Spies News — BPSniff (IEEE S&P 2025) Paper News Story May 12, 2025
  • Launching the AI Spies News Channel May 12, 2025
  • Paper accepted to WiSec 2025 May 11, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Secure Messaging Work Features in News May 3, 2025
  • SPIES Lab Student to Start as an Assistant Professor April 18, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena’s Primer on Secure Communications in News Media March 31, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena recognized with the Dean’s Excellence Award! February 14, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as the Senior Area Editor, IEEE TIFS February 6, 2025
  • 2 Full Papers Accepted to WWW 2025 January 20, 2025
  • Journal paper accepted to IEEE TMC December 18, 2024
  • New post-doctoral researcher joins the lab December 11, 2024
  • Paper Accepted to ACM Computing Surveys 2024 November 30, 2024

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