Publications

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, emerging issues, and open challenges

Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro

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Nominated Proof of Stake: A Reality Check

Maurantonio Caprolu, Elia Onofri, Omar Eldesouky, Roberto Di Pietro

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Fight Drones with Drones: Detecting Aerial Perimeter Intrusion using Drone-mounted Microphones

Vincenzo Sammartino, Nathanaël Denis, Omar Ibrahim, and Roberto Di Pietro

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From DePIN Hype to Operational Reality: Assessing Centralization and Usage of Commercial dVPNs

Bartan Oren, Maurantonio Caprolu, Savio Sciancalepore, Nicola Zannone, Roberto Di Pietro

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Toward Estimating Speculation in a Cryptocurrency Transaction Network: The Polkadot Case Study

Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto {Di Pietro} and Flavio Lombardi and Elia Onofri

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OxiMoRa: Oxidation Monitoring of Electrochemical Steel Corrosion based on Harmonic Radar and Deep Learning

Nathanael Denis and Roberto Di Pietro

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A Harmonic Radar Approach to Steel OxidationMeasurements using Spectrogram Classification

Nathanael Denis and Roberto Di Pietro

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Early Detection of DDoS Attacks via Online Social Networks Analysis

Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Ines Abbes (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar)

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SoK: A Structured Analysis of Economic and Technical Stablecoin-Related Research

Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro

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Replicating Human Immune System via Harmonic Radar: A Framework and Preliminary Results in Thwarting Cyber-physical Attacks

Nathanael Denis and Roberto Di Pietro

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Drone-Mag: UAV Identification and Authentication via Electromagnetic Emissions

Omar Ibrahim and Roberto Di Pietro

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A comprehensive review on machine learning-based VPN detection: Scenarios, methods, and open challenges

Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China)

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NoBU: An effective and viable cyber-physical solution to thwart BadUSB attacks

Andrea Ciccotelli, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro

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Echo: On the Limitations of Noise-Based Radio Fingerprinting Obfuscation

Omar Adel Ibrahim and Roberto Di Pietro

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An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Mouna Rabhi (Hamad Bin Khalifa University(HBKU), Doha, Qatar)

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Audio-deepfake detection: Adversarial attacks and countermeasures

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Mouna Rabhi (Hamad Bin Khalifa University(HBKU), Doha, Qatar) and Spiridon Bakiras (Infocomm Technology Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore)

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Sharing is (S)caring: Security and Privacy Issues in Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN)

Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Simone Raponi (Equixly S.r.l. Firenze, Italy)

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BloodHound: Early Detection and Identification of Jamming at the PHY-layer

Saeif Alhazbi and Gabriele Oligeri, with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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A2RID -Anonymous Direct Authentication and Remote Identification of Commercial Drones

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Eva Wisse, Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands), and Pietro Tedeschi (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

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Understanding Polkadot Through Graph Analysis: Transaction Model, Network Properties, and Insights

Hanaa Abbas, Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro

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LLD: A Low Latency Detection Solution to Thwart Cryptocurrency Pump & Dumps

Roberto Di Pietro, whit the collaboration of Ahmad Sani Bello and Jens Schneider (Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar)

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Account Clustering in the Polkadot Network: Heuristic, Experiments, and Insights

Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro

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Characterizing the 2022- Russo-Ukrainian Conflict Through the Lenses of Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: Dataset, Methodology, and Key Findings

Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Alireza Sadighian (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

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UBIC-A Blockchain-Less Cryptocurrency

Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Elmahdi Bentafat (Ahmed Bin Mohammed College) and Spiridon Bakiras (Singapore Institute of Technology)

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The Role of Emojis in Sentiment Analysis of Financial Microblogs

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Ahmed Mahrous (Qatar University) and Jens Schneider (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

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Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Proximity Discovery for Remotely-Controlled Drones

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Pietro Tedeschi (TII, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Savio Sciancalepore (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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Localization of a Power-Modulated Jammer

Pietro Tedeschi, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro

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Noise2Weight: On Detecting Payload Weight from Drones Acoustic Emissions

by CRI-Lab researchers Omar Adel Ibrahim and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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FRACTAL: Single-Channel Multi-Factor Transaction Authentication through a Compromised Terminal

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands), Simone Raponi, and Daniele Caldarola

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SpreadMeNot: A Provably Secure and Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing Protocol

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Pietro Tedeschi (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Spiridon Bakiras (Infocomm Technology Cluster, Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore)

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Analysis of Polkadot: Architecture, Internals, and Contradictions

Hanaa Abbas, Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro

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Satellite-based communications security: A survey of threats, solutions, and research challenges

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Pietro Tedeschi (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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AI-enabled Bot and Social Media: A Survey of Tools, Techniques, and Platforms for the Arms Race

Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Flavio Lombardi (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy)

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GPS spoofing detection via crowd-sourced information for connected vehicles

Gabriele Oligeri, Omar Adel Ibrahim, Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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Serverless Computing: A Security Perspective

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Diego Perino and Eduard Marin (Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain)

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MAG-PUF: Magnetic Physical Unclonable Functions for Device Authentication in the IoT

Omar Adel Ibrahim and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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PPRQ: Privacy-Preserving MAX/MIN Range Queries in IoT Networks

Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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New Dimensions of Information Warfare

Roberto Di Pietro, Simone Raponi, and Maurantonio Caprolu, with the collaboration of Stefano Cresci

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Cyber Security Research in the Arab Region: A Blooming Ecosystem with Global Ambitions

Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Christina Pöpper and Michail Maniatakos

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Auth-AIS: Secure, Flexible, and Backward-Compatible Authentication of Vessels AIS Broadcasts

Pietro Tedeschi, and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore and Ahmed Aziz

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Beyond SolarWinds: The Systemic Risks of Critical Infrastructures, State of Play, and Future Directions

Simone Raponi, Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro

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DoS and DDoS attacks in Software Defined Networks: A survey of existing solutions and research challenges

Lubna Fayez Eliyan and Roberto Di Pietro

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Predicting Influential Users in Online Social Network Groups

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Andrea De Salve, Paolo Mori, Barbara Guidi, and Laura Ricci

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IoTrace: A Flexible, Efficient, and Privacy-Preserving IoT-enabled Architecture for Contact Tracing

Pietro Tedeschi, Spiridon Bakiras and and Roberto Di Pietro

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Modelling a Communication Channel under Jamming: Experimental Model and Applications

Pietro Tedeschi, and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore

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Mitigating Energy Depletion Attacks in IoT via Random Time-Slotted Channel Access

Pietro Tedeschi, Usman Riasat and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore

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ARID: Anonymous Remote IDentification of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Pietro Tedeschi and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore

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Privacy-Preserving and Sustainable Contact Tracing Using Batteryless BLE Beacons

Pietro Tedeschi, James She, Spiridon Bakiras and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Kang Eun Jeon and Simon Wong

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Road Traffic Poisoning of Navigation Apps: Threats and Countermeasures

Simone Raponi, Gabriele Oligeri, and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Savio Sciancalepore

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Analysis and Patterns of Unknown Transactions in Bitcoin

Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Matteo Pontecorvi and Matteo Signorini (Nokia Bell Labs, Nozay, France) and Carlos Segarra (Imperial College, London, UK)

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Metaverse: Security and Privacy Issues

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Stefano Cresci (National Research Council, Pisa, Italy)

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PiNcH: an Effective, Efficient, and Robust Solution to Drone Detection via Network Traffic Analysis

Savio Sciancalepore, Omar Adel Ibrahim, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro

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Short-Range Audio Channels Security: Survey of Mechanisms, Applications, and Research Challenges

Maurantonio Caprolu, Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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Vessels Cybersecurity: Issues, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro, Simone Raponi, Savio Sciancalepore and Pietro Tedeschi

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A Longitudinal Study on Web-sites Password Management (in)Security: Evidence and Remedies

Simone Raponi and Roberto Di Pietro

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SecureAIS – Securing Pairwise Vessels Communications

Ahmed Aziz, Pietro Tedeschi, Savio Sciancalepore, and Roberto Di Pietro

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Foundations, Properties, and Security Applications of Puzzles: A Survey

Isra Mohamed Ali, Maurantonio Caprolu, and Roberto Di Pietro

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GNSS Spoofing Detection via Opportunistic IRIDIUM Signals

Gabriele Oligeri, Savio Sciancalepore, and Roberto Di Pietro

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BrokenStrokes: On the (in)Security of Wireless Keyboards

Gabriele Oligeri, Savio Sciancalepore, Simone Raponi and Roberto Di Pietro

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Next Generation Information Warfare: Rationales, Scenarios, Threats, and Open Issues

Roberto Di Pietro, Maurantonio Caprolu, and Simone Raponi

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Security in Energy Harvesting Networks: A Survey of Current Solutions and Research Challenges

Pietro Tedeschi, Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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MAGNETO: Fingerprinting USB Flash Drives via Unintentional Magnetic Emissions

Omar Adel Ibrahim, Savio Sciancalepore, Gabriele Oligeri, and Roberto Di Pietro

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Increasing Renewable Generation Feed-In Capacity Leveraging Smart Meters

Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Javier Hernandez Fernandez and Abdulrahman Alassi (Iberdrola Innovation Middle East, Doha, Qatar)

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BAD: A Blockchain Anomaly Detection Solution

Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Matteo Signorini, Matteo Pontecorvi (NOKIA Bell Labs, Nozay, France), and Waël Kanoun (Thales, Dubai, UAE)

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Receivers Location Privacy in Avionic Crowdsourced Networks: Issues and Countermeasures

Savio Sciancalepore, Saeif Alhazbi, and Roberto Di Pietro

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Strength of Crowd (SOC)—Defeating a Reactive Jammer in IoT with Decoy Messages

Savio Sciancalepore, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro

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EXCHANge: Securing IoT via Channel Anonymity

Savio Sciancalepore, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro with the collaboration of Giuseppe Piro and Gennaro Boggia (Politechnyc University of Bari, Italy)

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Reliability of ADS-B Communications: Novel Insights based on an Experimental Assessment

Savio Sciancalepore, Saeif Alhazbi and Roberto Di Pietro

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FORTRESS: An Efficient and Distributed Firewall for Stateful Data Plane SDN

Maurantonio Caprolu, Simone Raponi and Roberto Di Pietro

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DRAKE: Distributed Relay-Assisted Key Establishment

Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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Drive Me Not: GPS Spoofing Detection via Cellular Network

Gabriele Oligeri, Savio Sciancalepore, Omar Adel Ibrahim and Roberto Di Pietro

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JAM-ME: Exploiting Jamming to Accomplish Drone Mission

Roberto Di Pietro, Gabriele Oligeri and Pietro Tedeschi

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Detecting Drones Status via Encrypted Traffic Analysis

Savio Sciancalepore, Omar Adel Ibrahim, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro

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Intrusion Detection at the Network Edge: Solutions, Limitations, and Future Directions

Simone Raponi, Maurantonio Caprolu and Roberto Di Pietro

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Location Privacy Issues in the Opensky Network Crowdsourcing Platform

Savio Sciancalepore, Saeif Al Hazbi and Roberto Di Pietro

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SOS: Standard-Compliant and Packet Loss Tolerant Security Framework for ADS-B Communications

Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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Nationality and Geolocation-Based Profiling in the Dark (Web)

Simone Raponi, with the collaboration of Massimo La Morgia, Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Alessandro Mei, and Julinda Stefa (Sapienza University of Rome)

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BitTransfer: Mitigating Reactive Jamming in Electronic Warfare Scenarios

Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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Emergent properties, models, and laws of behavioral similarities within groups of twitter users

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Stefano Cresci, Marinella Petrocchi, and Maurizio Tesconi (IIT-CNR), and Angelo Spognardi (Sapienza University of Rome)

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LiKe: Lightweight Certificateless Key Agreement for Secure IoT Communications

Pietro Tedeschi, Savio Sciancalepore, Areej Eliyan, and Roberto Di Pietro

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Leveraging Jamming to Help Drones Complete Their Mission

Pietro Tedeschi, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro

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N-Guard: a Solution to Secure Access to NFC tags

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Gabriele Oligeri (Qatar University), Xavier Salleras (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Matteo Signorini (Nokia Bell Labs Paris, France)

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Shooting to the Stars: Secure Location Verification via Meteor Burst Communications

Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Gabriele Oligeri (Qatar University)

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Docker ecosystem – Vulnerability Analysis

Simone Raponi and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Antony Martin and Theo Combe (Nokia Bell Labs Paris, France)

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A blockchain-based Trust System for the Internet of Things

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Xavier Salleras (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain), Matteo Signorini and Erez Waisbard (Nokia Bell Labs Paris, France)

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Time-Zone Geolocation of Crowds in the Dark Web

Simone Raponi, with the collaboration of Massimo La Morgia, Alessandro Mei, and Julinda Stefa (Sapienza University of Rome)

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A Spark is Enough in a Straw World: a Study of Websites Password Management in the Wild

Simone Raponi and Roberto Di Pietro

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Key Is In The Air: Hacking Remote Keyless Entry Systems

Omar Adel Ibrahim, Gabriele Oligeri and Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Ahmed Mohamed Hussain

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On the design of a Decentralized and Multi-Authority Access Control Schemes in Federated and Cloud-Assisted Cyber-Physical Systems

Savio Sciancalepore, with the collaboration of Giuseppe Piro, Daniele Caldarola, Gennaro Boggia (Politechnyc University of Bari, Italy) and Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Tor Vergata, Rome 2).

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When Blockchain Makes Ephemeral Keys Authentic: a Novel Key Agreement Mechanism in the IoT World

Pietro Tedeschi, with the collaboration of Giuseppe Piro and Gennaro Boggia (Politechnyc University of Bari, Italy)

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GopJam: Key-less jamming mitigation via gossiping”

Roberto Di Pietro and Gabriele Oligeri

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SOS – Securing Open Skies

Savio Sciancalepore and Roberto Di Pietro

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Edge and Fog Computing in Critical Infrastructures: Analysis, Security Threats, and Research Challenges

Pietro Tedeschi and Savio Sciancalepore

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PPCA – Privacy-Preserving Collision Avoidance for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Roberto Di Pietro, with the collaboration of Pietro Tedeschi (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) and Savio Sciancalepore (Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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LENTO: unpredictable Latency-based continuous authEntication for Network inTensive IoT envirOnments

Roberto Di Pietro and Mohammed Al-Sadi, with the collaboration of Flavio Lombardi (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, IAC-CNR Rome, Italy) and Matteo Signorini (Nokia Bell Labs)

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