NSS-SocialSec 2023

Online Proceedings

Online Proceedings (free access if visited from this page, even if you don't have a subscription; individual papers' links can be found in the program shown below):

• NSS 2023 (from 14 August, 2023): https://link.springer.com/book/9783031398278
• SocialSec 2023 (from 7 August, 2023): https://link.springer.com/book/9789819951789

Shotcuts

➠ Day 1: Session 1, Keynote I, Session 2, Session 3

➠ Day 2: Session 4, Keynote II, Session 5, Session 6

➠ Day 3: Session 7, Keynote III, Session 8, Session 9

Program

Day 1 (Monday 14 August 2023)

09:00-09:30	Registration
09:30-10:00	Welcome Session (General Co-Chairs' Welcome Address, TPC Co-Chairs' Report)
10:00-11:30	Session 1: Malware, Attacks and Countermeasures (I) – NSS (Session Chair: Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK)
10:00-10:25	Evaluating Rule-Based Global XAI Malware Detection Methods Rui Li and Olga Gadyatskaya
10:25-10:50	Whitelisting for Characterizing and Monitoring Process Control Communication Andreas Paul, Franka Schuster and Hartmut Koenig
10:50-11:10	Detection of Malware using Self-attention Mechanism and Strings (Short Paper) Satoki Kanno and Mamoru Mimura
11:10-11:30	Agnostic Label-Only Membership Inference Attack (Short Paper) Anna Monreale, Francesca Naretto and Simone Rizzo
11:30-11:45	Morning Break
11:45-12:45	Keynote I: The Future of Passwords Speaker: Julia Hesse, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland (Session Chair: Atsuko Miyaji, Osaka University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:35	Session 2: Information Abuse and Political Discourse – SocialSec (Session Chair: Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK)
14:00-14:25	SocialSec 2023 Best Paper Award People Still Care About Facts: Twitter Users Engage More with Factual Discourse than Misinformation Luiz Giovanini, Shlok Gilda, Mirela Silva, Fabrício Ceschin, Prakash Shrestha, Christopher Brant, Juliana Fernandes, Catia Silva, André Grégio and Daniela Oliveira
14:25-14:50	Twitter Bots Influence on the Russo-Ukrainian War During the 2022 Italian General Elections Francesco Luigi De Faveri, Luca Cosuti, Pier Paolo Tricomi and Mauro Conti
14:50-15:15	Did State-sponsored Trolls Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Discourse? Quantifying Influence on Twitter Nikos Salamanos, Michael J. Jensen, Costas Iordanou and Michael Sirivianos
15:15-15:35	Extracting common features of fake news by Multi-Head-Attention (Short Paper) Takayuki Ishimaru and Mamoru Mimura
15:35-16:00	Afternoon Break
16:00-17:35	Session 3: Blockchain – NSS + SocialSec (Session Chair: Yangguang Tian, University of Surrey, UK)
16:00-16:25	Resilience of Blockchain Overlay Networks Aristodemos Paphitis, Nicolas Kourtellis and Michael Sirivianos
16:25-16:50	Provably Secure Blockchain Protocols from Distributed Proof-of-Deep-Learning Xiangyu Su, Mario Larangeira and Keisuke Tanaka
16:50-17:15	Graph Analysis of Blockchain P2P Overlays and their Security Implications Aristodemos Paphitis, Nicolas Kourtellis and Michael Sirivianos
17:15-17:35	Security Model for Privacy-preserving Blockchain-based Cryptocurrency Systems (Short Paper) Mayank Raikwar, Shuang Wu and Kristian Gjøsteen
17:35-19:00	Welcome Reception

Day 2 (Tuesday 15 August 2023)

09:00-10:35	Session 4: Security Mechanisms, Social Structure and Community – NSS + SocialSec (Session Chair: Hiroki Kuzuno, Kobe University, Japan)
09:00-09:25	Group Oriented Attribute-based Encryption Scheme from Lattices with the employment of Shamir's Secret Sharing scheme Maharage Perera, Toru Nakamura, Takashi Matsunaka, Hiroyuki Yokoyama and Kouichi Sakurai
09:25-09:50	Secure and Efficient Data Processing for Cloud Computing with Fine-Grained Access Control Jingjing Wang, Hao Feng, Zheng Yu, Rongtao Liao, Shi Chen and Ting Liang
09:50-10:15	Cyber Security Researchers on Online Social Networks: From the Lens of the UK's ACEs-CSR on Twitter Mohamad Imad Mahaini and Shujun Li
10:15-10:35	The Social and Technological Incentives for Cybercriminals to Engage in Ransomware Activities (Short Paper) Yichao Wang, Sophia Roscoe, Budi Arief, Lena Connolly, Hervé Borrion and Sanaa Kaddoura
10:35-11:00	Morning Break
11:00-12:00	Keynote II: Monitoring & Mitigating Online Harms: Is Redecentralisation the Answer to Partisanship, Hate Speech, Tracking etc.? Speaker: Nishanth Sastry, University of Surrey, UK (Session Chair: Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK)
12:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:45	Session 5: Security in the Wild – NSS (Session Chair: Zhe Xia, Wuhan University of Technology, China)
13:30-13:55	On the Design of a Misinformation Widget (Ms.W) Against Cloaked Science David Arroyo, Sara Degli-Esposti, Alberto Gómez-Espés, Santiago Palmero-Muñoz and Luis Pérez-Miguel
13:55-14:20	Spying on the Spy: Security Analysis of Hidden Cameras Samuel Herodotou and Feng Hao
14:20-14:45	NSS 2023 Best Student Paper Award Security Analysis of Mobile Point-of-Sale Terminals Mahshid Mehr Nezhad, Elliot Laidlaw and Feng Hao
14:45-15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00-16:15	Session 6: Malware, Attacks and Countermeasures (II) – SocialSec (Session Chair: Olga Gadyatskaya, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
15:00-15:25	Data Reconstruction Attack Against Principal Component Analysis Saloni Kwatra and Vicenç Torra
15:25-15:50	SocialSec 2023 Best Student Paper Award The Impact of Synthetic Data on Membership Inference Attacks Md Sakib Nizam Khan and Sonja Buchegger
15:50-16:15	Time Is On My Side: Forward-Replay Attacks to TOTP Authentication Giuseppe Bianchi and Lorenzo Valeriani
16:15-19:00	Free time or a walking tour
19:00-19:30	Pre Banquet Drink Reception
19:30-22:00	Conference Banquet + Best Paper Awards Announcement

Day 3 (Wednesday 16 August 2023)

09:00-10:30	Session 7: System and Hardware Security – NSS (Session Chair: Atsuko Miyaji, Osaka University and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
09:00-09:25	NSS 2023 Best Paper Award Modular Polynomial Multiplication Using RSA/ECC coprocessor Aurélien Greuet, Simon Montoya and Clémence Vermeersch
09:25-09:50	T3E: A Practical Solution to Trusted Time in Secure Enclaves Gilang Mentari Hamidy, Pieter Philippaerts and Wouter Joosen
09:50-10:10	KDRM: Kernel Data Relocation Mechanism to Mitigate Privilege Escalation Attack (Short Paper) Hiroki Kuzuno and Toshihiro Yamauchi
10:10-10:30	Decentralized SGX-based Cloud Key Management (Short Paper) Yunusa Abdulsalam, Jaouhara Bouamama, Yahya Benkaouz and Mustapha Hedabou
10:30-11:00	Morning Break
11:00-12:00	Keynote III: Trustworthy AI… for Systems Security Speaker: Lorenzo Cavallaro, University College London, UK (Session Chair: Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK)
12:00-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:45	Session 8: Privacy and Machine Learning (I) – NSS + SocialSec (Session Chair: Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan)
13:00-13:25	Detection of Privacy-harming Social Media Posts in Italian Federico Peiretti and Ruggero G. Pensa
13:25-13:45	The Effectiveness of Transformer-based Models for BEC attack Detection (Short Paper) Amirah Almutairi, Boojoong Kang and Nawfal Fadhel
13:45-14:05	SPoiL: Sybil-based Untargeted Data Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning (Short Paper) Zhuotao Lian, Chen Zhang, Kaixi Nan and Chunhua Su
14:05-14:25	Edge local Differential Privacy for Dynamic Graphs (Short Paper) Sudipta Paul, Julián Salas and Vicenç Torra
14:25-14:45	Temporal Analysis of Privacy Enhancing Technology Traffic using Deep Learning (Short Paper) Monika Kumari, Mohona Ghosh and Niyati Baliyan
14:45-15:00	Afternoon Break
15:00-16:30	Session 9: Privacy and Machine Learning (II) – NSS (Session Chair: Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan)
15:00-15:25	Privacy-preserving Federated Learning with Hierarchical Clustering to Improve Training on Non-IID Data Songwei Luo, Shaojing Fu, Yuchuan Luo, Lin Liu, Yanxiang Deng and Shixiong Wang
15:25-15:50	RRML: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Based on Random Response Technology Jia Wang, Shiqing He and Qiuzhen Lin
15:50-16:10	ppAURORA: Privacy Preserving Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristic and Precision-Recall Curves (Short Paper) Ali Burak Ünal, Nico Pfeifer and Mete Akgün
16:10-16:30	New LDP approach using VAE (Short Paper) Andres Hernandez-Matamoros and Hiroaki Kikuchi
16:30-17:00	Wrap Up (NSS-SocialSec 2024 Chairs' report)