Traffic Analysis Attack for Identifying Users' Online Activities

Traffic Analysis Attack for Identifying Users' Online Activities

Traffic analysis is a serious threat over the network. An attacker can analyze network traffic patterns to infer packet's content, even though it is encrypted. This article demonstrates a traffic analysis attack that exploits vulnerabilities in encrypted smartphone communications to infer the w...

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Veröffentlicht in:IT professional 2019-03, Vol.21 (2), p.50-57
Hauptverfasser: Kausar, Firdous, Aljumah, Sarah, Alzaydi, Shorouq, Alroba, Raghad
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Communications traffic
Computer networks
Crawlers
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Data mining
Feature extraction
Servers
Smartphones
Timing
Vulnerability
Web pages
Websites
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Zusammenfassung:Traffic analysis is a serious threat over the network. An attacker can analyze network traffic patterns to infer packet's content, even though it is encrypted. This article demonstrates a traffic analysis attack that exploits vulnerabilities in encrypted smartphone communications to infer the web pages being visited by a user.
ISSN:1520-9202
1941-045X
DOI:10.1109/MITP.2018.2876988