OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Secure Selections on Encrypted Multi-writer Streams	87
Towards Better Understanding of User Authorization Query Problem via Multi-variable Complexity Analysis	33
Secure and Reliable Network Updates	31
Security Implications of the Morello Platform: An Empirical Threat Model-Based Analysis	30
TLS-MHSA: An Efficient Detection Model for Encrypted Malicious Traffic based on Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanism	28
Deep PackGen: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Adversarial Network Packet Generation	27
Dimensional Robustness Certification for Deep Neural Networks in Network Intrusion Detection Systems	24
A Secret Sharing-Inspired Robust Distributed Backdoor Attack to Federated Learning	24
Flexible Mechanisms for Remote Attestation	22
Binsec/Rel: Symbolic Binary Analyzer for Security with Applications to Constant-Time and Secret-Erasure	22
Site Inspector: Improving Browser Communication of Website Security Information	18
Bi-objective Optimization in Role Mining	18
SPArch: A Hardware-oriented Sketch-based Architecture for High-speed Network Flow Measurements	17
CBAs: Character-level Backdoor Attacks against Chinese Pre-trained Language Models	17
#PrettyFlyForAWiFi	17
Information Leakage Games: Exploring Information as a Utility Function	16
symbSODA: Configurable and Verifiable Orchestration Automation for Active Malware Deception	15
Differentially Private Real-Time Release of Sequential Data	14
Spoofing Against Spoofing: Toward Caller ID Verification in Heterogeneous Telecommunication Systems	13
PredicTor: A Global, Machine Learning Approach to Tor Path Selection	13
C3PO: C loud-based C onfidentiality-preserving C ontinuous Query P r	12
A Decentralized Private Data Marketplace using Blockchain and Secure Multi-Party Computation	12
An Experimental Assessment of Inconsistencies in Memory Forensics	12
Valued Authorization Policy Existence Problem: Theory and Experiments	12
Adversarial Attack and Defense for Commercial Black-box Chinese-English Speech Recognition Systems	11

Fraud Detection under Siege: Practical Poisoning Attacks and Defense Strategies	11
Improving Unlinkability of Attribute-based Authentication through Game Theory	11
So Near and Yet So Far – Symbolic Verification of Distance-Bounding Protocols	10
CySecBERT : A Domain-Adapted Language Model for the Cybersecurity Domain	9
What Users Want From Cloud Deletion and the Information They Need: A Participatory Action Study	9
Semi-Supervised Classification of Malware Families Under Extreme Class Imbalance via Hierarchical Non-Negative Matrix Factorization with Automatic Model Selection	9
Generating Quality Threat Intelligence Leveraging OSINT and a Cyber Threat Unified Taxonomy	8
ZTA-IoT: A Novel Architecture for Zero-Trust in IoT Systems and an Ensuing Usage Control Model	8
Performance and Usability Evaluation of Brainwave Authentication Techniques with Consumer Devices	8
Assessment Framework for the Identification and Evaluation of Main Features for Distributed Usage Control Solutions	8
B ³ : Backdoor Attacks against Black-box Machine Learning Models	7
A Comparison of Systemic and Systematic Risks of Malware Encounters in Consumer and Enterprise Environments	7
Balancing Security and Privacy in Genomic Range Queries	7
Sphinx-in-the-Head: Group Signatures from Symmetric Primitives	7
A Lightweight Privacy-Aware Continuous Authentication Protocol-PACA	6
Optimal Packet Camouflage Against Traffic Analysis	6
End-to-End Security for Distributed Event-driven Enclave Applications on Heterogeneous TEEs	6
RansomShield: A Visualization Approach to Defending Mobile Systems Against Ransomware	6
Risk Prediction of IoT Devices Based on Vulnerability Analysis	6
Cyber Threat Intelligence meets the Analytic Tradecraft	6
SoK: Human-centered Phishing Susceptibility	6
AutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking	6
Euler : Detecting Network Lateral Movement via Scalable Temporal Link Prediction	6
Computation on Encrypted Data Using Dataflow Authentication	6
End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage	5
Accountable Private Set Cardinality for Distributed Measurement	5
Level Up with ML Vulnerability Identification: Leveraging Domain Constraints in Feature Space for Robust Android Malware Detection	5
Privacy Policies across the Ages: Content of Privacy Policies 1996–2021	5
Measures of Information Leakage for Incomplete Statistical Information: Application to a Binary Privacy Mechanism	5
On the Security of Smartphone Unlock PINs	5
Boost Your Immunity: VACCINE for Preventing a Novel Stealthy Slice Selection Attack in 5G and Beyond	5
Revisiting the Security of Biometric Authentication Systems Against Statistical Attacks	4
Assessing Cyber Risk in Cyber-Physical Systems Using the ATT&CK Framework	4
InkFiltration: Using Inkjet Printers for Acoustic Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Networks	4
Is Bitcoin Future as Secure as We Think? Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched through Large Transactions	4
Formal Security Analysis of the OpenID FAPI 2.0 Family of Protocols: Accompanying a Standardization Process	4
Quantifying and Exploiting Adversarial Vulnerability: Gradient-Based Input Pre-Filtering for Enhanced Performance in Black-Box Attacks	4
A Novel Hybrid Approach for Multi-Dimensional Data Anonymization for Apache Spark	3
Privacy-preserving Resilient Consensus for Multi-agent Systems in a General Topology Structure	3
Specifying and Verifying Information Flow Control in SELinux Configurations	3
A Metric Differential Privacy Mechanism for Sentence Embeddings	3
The Dark Side of Native Code on Android	3
Formal Modelling and Automated Trade-off Analysis of Enforcement Architectures for Cryptographic Access Control in the Cloud	3
Maat	3
Flexichain: Flexible Payment Channel Network to Defend Against Channel Exhaustion Attack	3
Learning Relationship-Based Access Control Policies from Black-Box Systems	3
Constrained Proximity Attacks on Mobile Targets	3
Uncovering CWE-CVE-CPE Relations with Threat Knowledge Graphs	3
Large-scale and Robust Code Authorship Identification with Deep Feature Learning	2
Beyond the Screen: Exploring Privacy Boundaries through Automated User Profiling	2

DP-Poison: Poisoning Federated Learning under the Cover of Differential Privacy	2
The Effect of Domain Terms on Password Security	2
“Sign in with ... Privacy ”: Timely Disclosure of Privacy Differences among Web SSO Login Options	2
Pump Up Password Security! Evaluating and Enhancing Risk-Based Authentication on a Real-World Large-Scale Online Service	2
Exploitation Techniques for Data-oriented Attacks with Existing and Potential Defense Approaches	2
OptiClass : An Optimized Classifier for Application Layer Protocols Using Bit Level Signatures	2
Paralinguistic Privacy Protection at the Edge	2
A Novel Cross-Network Embedding for Anchor Link Prediction with Social Adversarial Attacks	2
Understanding Information Disclosure from Secure Computation Output: A Comprehensive Study of Average Salary Computation	2
DELM: Deep Ensemble Learning Model for Anomaly Detection in Malicious Network Traffic-based Adaptive Feature Aggregation and Network Optimization	2
ZT-SDN: An ML-Powered Zero-Trust Architecture for Software-Defined Networks	2
Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Digital Literacy Game for Tweens	2
Resilience-by-design in Adaptive Multi-agent Traffic Control Systems	2
VulANalyzeR: Explainable Binary Vulnerability Detection with Multi-task Learning and Attentional Graph Convolution	2
PEBASI: A Privacy preserving, Efficient Biometric Authentication Scheme based on Irises	2
Multi-Stage Enhanced Zero Trust Intrusion Detection System for Unknown Attack Detection in Internet of Things and Traditional Networks	2
Attack Detection Using Item Vector Shift in Matrix Factorisation Recommenders	2