Journal Papers


  • [J04] Riccardo Spolaor, Elia Dal Santo, Mauro Conti. "DELTA: Data Extraction and Logging Tool for Android."
    In In (IEEE) Transactions on Mobile Computing, in press, 2017.
    (JCR IF 2016 : 3.822; IT-ANVUR Class 1)

    • [J03] Vincent F. Taylor, Riccardo Spolaor, Mauro Conti and Ivan Martinovic.
    Robust Smartphone App Identification Via Encrypted Network Traffic Analysis.
    In (IEEE) Transactions on Information Forensics & Security,, in press, 2017.
    (JCR IF 2016: 4.332; IT-ANVUR Class 1)

  • [J02] Riccardo Spolaor, QianQian Li, Merylin Monaro, Mauro Conti, Luciano Gamberini, Giuseppe Sartori.
    Biometric Authentication Methods on Smartphones: A Survey.
    In Psychnology Journal, in press, 2017.

  • [J01] Mauro Conti, Luigi V. Mancini, Riccardo Spolaor, Nino Vincenzo Verde.
    Analyzing Android Encrypted Network Traffic to Identify User Actions.
    In (IEEE) Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, in press, 2015.
    (JCR IF 2013: 2.065; IT-ANVUR Class 1)

    International Conferences and Workshops

  • [C10] Mirage: Toward a Stealthier and Modular Malware Analysis Sandbox for Android.
    Lorenzo Bordoni, Mauro Conti and Riccardo Spolaor.
    In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
    (ESORICS 2017)    , in press, Oslo, Norway. September 11-13, 2017.
    (acceptance rate 15.88 %)

  • [C09] Merylin Monaro, Riccardo Spolaor, Qianqian Li, Mauro Conti, Luciano Gamberini and Giuseppe Sartori.
    Type Me the Truth! Detecting Deceitful Users via Keystroke Dynamics.
    In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop Cyber Crime
    (ARES 2017 workshop: IWCC 2017)    , in press, Reggio Calabria, Italy, August 29 - September 1, 2017.

  • [C08] Riccardo Spolaor, Laila Abudahi, Veelasha Moonsamy, Mauro Conti and Radha Poovendran.
    No Free Charge Theorem: a Covert Channel via USB Charging Cable on Mobile Devices.
    In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
    (ACNS 2017)    , in press, Kanazawa, Japan, June 10-12, 2017.

  • [C07] Maddalena Favaretto, Riccardo Spolaor, Mauro Conti and Marco Ferrante.
    You Surf So Strange Today: Anomaly Detection in Web services via HMM and CTMC.
    In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing
    (GPC 2017)    , in press, Cetara, Italy, May 11-14, 2017.

  • [C06] Riccardo Spolaor, Merylin Monaro, Pasquale Capuozzo, Marco Baesso, Mauro Conti, Luciano Gamberini, Giuseppe Sartori.
    You Are How You Play: Authenticating Mobile Users via Game Playing.
    In Proceedings of the 2016 Workshop on Communication Security
    (Eurocrypt 2017 workshop: WCS 2017)    , in press, Paris, France, April 30, 2017.

  • [C05] Mauro Conti, Claudio Guarisco, Riccardo Spolaor.
    CAPTCHaStar! A Novel CAPTCHA Based on Interactive Shape Discovery.
    In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
    (ACNS 2016)    , in press, London (Guildford), UK, June 19-22, 2016.
    (acceptance rate 19.12 %)

  • [C04] Mauro Conti, Michele Nati, Enrico Rotundo, Riccardo Spolaor.
    Mind The Plug! Laptop-User Recognition Through Power Consumption.
    In Proceedings of the 2016 International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security
    (ACM AsiaCCS 2016 workshop: IoTPTS 2016)    , to appear, Xi'an, China, May 30 - June 3, 2016.

  • [C03] Valeriu-Daniel Stanciu, Riccardo Spolaor, Mauro Conti, Cristiano Giuffrida.
    On the Effectiveness of Sensor-enhanced Keystroke Dynamics Against Statistical Attacks.
    In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
    (ACM SIGSAC CODASPY 2016)    , New Orleans, LA, USA, March 9-11, 2016.
    (acceptance rate 19.13 %)

  • [C02] Vincent F. Taylor, Riccardo Spolaor, Mauro Conti, Ivan Martinovic
    AppScanner: Automatic Fingerprinting of Smartphone Apps From Encrypted Network Traffic.
    In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
    (IEEE EuroSP 2016)    , Saarbrücken, Germany, March 21-24, 2016.
    (acceptance rate 17.26 %)

  • [C01] Mauro Conti, Luigi V. Mancini, Riccardo Spolaor, Nino Vincenzo Verde.
    Can't you hear me knocking: Identification of user actions on Android apps via traffic analysis.
    In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
    (ACM SIGSAC CODASPY 2015)    , San Antonio, TX, USA, March 2-4, 2015.
    (acceptance rate 21.00 %) PDF

    Patents

  • [P1] Mauro Conti, Claudio Guarisco, Riccardo Spolaor.
    A Method for recognizing whether a user terminal is human or robot.
    IT Patent n. MI2014A002112, 2014. (submitted)

    Thesis

  • [MT] Can't you hear me knocking: Identification of user actions on Android apps via traffic analysis.
    Author:Riccardo Spolaor
    Supervisor: Mauro Conti (University of Padua)
    Co-Supervisor: Nino Vincenzo Verde (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Thesis PDF,Presentation PDF
  • [BT] WalkingPH: un'applicazione CRM mobile polivalente con la gestione delle vendite integrata
    Author:Riccardo Spolaor
    Supervisor: Prof. Tullio Vardanega
    Thesis PDF,Presentation PDF