Muhammad Ikram
Muhammad Ikram
PhD Student,
Networks Group
CyberPhysical Systems Research Program
Data61, CSIRO
I am a PhD student in the department of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication at UNSW and Data61|CSIRO, Australia. My PhD advisor is Prof. Mohamed Ali (Dali) Kaafar. I am interested in malware analysis and data-driven investigation of privacy and security issues in the Web and mobile platforms.
News
- 12/2017: WWW’18 accepts paper on Web data obfuscation, great job team: Rahat, Dinusha, and Dali
- 09/2017: IEEE NCA accepts paper on mobile Ad-Blocking apps
- 07/2017: Attended PETS’17 and presented the paper: Ikram et al., “Towards Seamless Tracking-Free Web: Improved Detection of Trackers“, [Watch]
- 07/2017: Attended SOUPS’17 and presented the paper: Conway et al., “A Qualitative Investigation of Bank Employee Experiences of Information Security and Phishing”
- 06/2017: ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security (TOPS) accepts paper on characterization and detection of Facebook Like Farms
- 03/2017: eCrime’17 accepts paper on black-hat marketplaces
- 08/2016: PRSS conference travel fund from UNSW. Thanks UNSW!
- 08/2016: PETS’17 accepts paper on tracking-free Web browsing
- 07/2016: ACM IMC accepts paper on security and privacy risks analysis of VPN-enabled Android apps
- 10/2015: ACM student travel grant to attend ACM IMC’15 in Tokyo, Japan. Thanks ACM IMC!
PhD Thesis
- Analysis and Design of Secure Privacy Preserving Systems [pdf-coming soon]
Research Projects
- Mobile Security & Privacy [IMC’16, NCA’17]
- Web Security and Privacy [WWW’18, PETS’17, CoNext’14]
- Fraud Detection and Prevention [eCrime’17, ACM TOPS’17]
Publications (Complete List on Google Scholar)
- Rahat Masood, Dinusha Vatsalan, Muhammad Ikram and Mohamed Ali Kaafar, “Incognito: A Method for Obfuscating Web Data”, World Wide Web (WWW), 2018.
- Muhammad Ikram and Mohamed Ali Kaafar, “A First Look at Ad Blocking Apps“, in IEEE Network Computing and Application (NCA), 2017. [Slides]
- Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Shehroze Farooqi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Zubair Shafiq, “Measuring, Characterizing, Detecting Facebook Like Farms“, ACM Transaction on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2017.
- Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Fareed Zafar, Zubair Shafiq, “Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace“, in IEEE eCrime Research Summit, 2017.
- Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anirban Mahanti, “Towards Seamless Tracking-Free Web: Improved Detection of Trackers via One-class Learning“, in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2017. [Slides][Watch]
- Muhammad Ikram, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Suranga Seneviratne, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Vern Paxson, “An analysis of the Privacy and Security Risks of Android VPN Permission-enabled Apps“, in ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2016. (Full Paper) [Slides]. Media Coverage (complete list): EFF, ITWire, Slashdot, Security Week, ABC News, TheRegister, Technology Decisions, SHM, …
- Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Anirban Mahanti, “On the Intrusiveness of JavaScript on the Web“, Proceedings of the 2014 CoNEXT on Student Workshop, 2014.
Technical Reports
- Muhammad Ikram, Hassan Jameel Asghar, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Anirban Mahanti, “Towards Seamless Tracking-Free Web: Improved Detection of Trackers via One-class Learning“, arXiv:1603.06289v1, 2016.
- Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, M Zubair Shafiq, “Combating Fraud in Online Social Networks: Characterizing and Detecting Facebook Like Farms“, arXiv:1506.00506v3, 2016.
- Muhammad Ikram, Lucky Onwuzurike, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, M Zubair Shafiq, “Spying on Spammers: Tracking Like Farm Accounts on Facebook“, arXiv:1506.00506, 2015. [The Register]
- Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Gohar Irfan, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Arik Friedman, Guillaume Jourjon, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, M Zubair Shafiq, Fareed Zaffar, “Characterizing Seller-Driven Black-Hat Marketplaces“, arXiv:1505.01637, 2015.
Services
- External reviewer: ACM IMC, PETS, AsiaCCS, WoWMoM, TPDS, ICC