Free and open communication over the Internet is essential for the overall advancement of modern societies. However, there are numerous ways with which malevolent adversaries try to control the flow of information, by ...

Cyberwarfare remains a sparsely explored domain of cybersecurity research, most often involving targeted attacks by one nation against another, using botnets. These botnets use malware to launch various kinds of attacks ...

Traditional censorship revolves around blocking access to some websites (or services) over the Internet. However, recently there has been a rise in the events of an extreme form of censorship viz., deliberate Internet ...

The government regimes have frequently used internet shutdowns to curb the freedom of expression and devoice people worldwide. There could be other unintentional reasons, like power failure, device rupture, regional outages, ...

In this work we highlight the evolution of Internet censorship within the largest democracy i.e., India. We first report a new form of Internet censorship i.e., mobile app blocking and describe in detail the mechanics ...

Anonymous censorship-resistant communication systems are primarily designed keeping in mind semi real-time traffic such as web browsing. One such system, Tor [1], has gained prominence as the de-facto anonymity preserving ...

Decoy Routing, the use of routers (rather than end hosts) as proxies, shows great promise as an anti-censorship mechanism. To use a Decoy Router, the user sends specially crafted packets, apparently to an uncensored website. ...

The term bandwidth, capacity, and throughput characterize the amount of data that can be transferred per unit time. Accurate estimation of bandwidth can be leveraged by various applications which seek to provide best user ...