Despite the widespread deployment of 5G technologies, there exists a critical gap in security testing for 5G Standalone (SA) devices. Existing methods, largely manual and labor-intensive, are ill-equipped to fully uncover the state of security in the ...

As 5G is currently being rolled out, security considerations for this critical infrastructure are getting more into focus. Hereby, the security investigation of the 5G core as the central element plays a pivotal role. The structure of the core is based ...

Recent geopolitical events have exposed our critical dependence on the wireless infrastructure used to facilitate worldwide communication. State-sponsored groups are actively attacking and exploiting space-based communication networks, causing outages ...

Deep Learning-based RF fingerprinting has emerged as a game-changer for offering robust network device authentication and identification solutions. However, it struggles in cross-time scenarios, particularly during hardware warm-up phases. This often-...

Harmonic radar systems have been shown to be an effective method for detecting the presence of electronic devices, even if the devices are powered off. Prior work has focused on detecting specific non-linear electrical components (such as transistors and ...

As the demand for high-speed and reliable wireless networks continues to increase, multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) technology has become a popular choice for wireless communication systems. However, this technology also brings new ...

Virtual Reality (VR) technology offers an immersive audio-visual experience to users through which they can interact with a digitally represented 3D space (i.e., a virtual world) using a headset device. By (visually) transporting users from their ...

5G technology transitions the cellular network core from specialized hardware into software-based cloud-native network functions (NFs). As part of this change, the 3GPP defines an access control policy to protect NFs from one another and third-party ...

The proliferation of airborne drones, while instrumental to a broad range of applications, has led to an increased number of regulatory non-compliance incidents. The ubiquitous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are posing security risks, since they have ...

The correct functionality (can also be called as functional integrity) from a smart device is essential towards ensuring their safe and secure operations. The functional integrity of a device can be defined based on its correctness in sensing and ...

5G messaging services, based on Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Rich Communication Service (RCS) and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), have been deployed globally by more than 90 mobile ...

Detecting DoS attacks and other malicious activities in wireless networks is crucial for cybersecurity. The challenge arises due to the unlabeled nature of the majority of available network data, mainly because of the high volume and diverse data streams ...

As 5G networks become part of the critical infrastructures whose dysfunctions can cause severe damages to society, their security has been increasingly scrutinized. Recent works have revealed multiple specification-level flaws in 5G core networks but ...

Because of the great convenience and being not readable to humans, Quick Response (QR) codes are increasingly being utilized to offer a variety of security applications to mobile users, such as online payments, website logins, and private data sharing. ...

Wireless device pairing is a critical security mechanism to bootstrap the secure communication between two devices without a pre-shared secret. It has been widely used in many Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as smarthome and smarthealth. Most ...

When using protected Wi-Fi protocols such as WPA2 and WPA3, the access point that you connect to is authenticated by the client. This prevents an adversary from creating a rogue clone of the Wi-Fi network, and implies that the name of a network, called ...

Cellular networks such as 4G and 5G have been exceedingly successful, but have encountered a parallel surge in security threats. Random access (RA) is an essential procedure performed between a user and a base station to facilitate attachment to the ...

Along with the increasing popularity of smart home IoT devices, more users are turning to smart home automation platforms to control and automate their IoT devices. However, IoT automation is vulnerable to spoofed event attacks. Given that IoT devices ...

Medium Access Control (MAC) address randomization is a key component for privacy protection in Wi-Fi networks. Current proposals periodically change the mobile device MAC addresses when it disconnects from the Access Point (AP). This way frames cannot be ...

People Nearby is a service offered by Telegram that allows a user to discover other Telegram users, based only on geographical proximity. Nearby users are reported with a rough estimate of their distance from the position of the reference user, allowing ...