Publications – Nayanamana Samarasinghe

• B. Tejaswi, N. Samarasinghe, S. Pourali, M. Mannan, A. Youssef. “Leaky Kits: The Increased Risk of Data Exposure from Phishing Kits“. APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2022).
• S. Pourali, N. Samarasinghe, M. Mannan. “Hidden in Plain Sight: Exploring Encrypted Channels in Android apps“. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022).
• N. Samarasinghe, P. Kapoor, M. Mannan, A. Youssef. “No Salvation from Trackers: Privacy Analysis of Religious Websites and Mobile Apps“. Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM, co-located with ESORICS 2022). 
• X. Yu, N. Samarasinghe, M. Mannan, A. Youssef. “Got Sick and Tracked: Privacy Analysis of Hospital Websites“. Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2022), co-located with IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P 2022).
• N. Samarasinghe, A. Adhikari, M. Mannan, A. Youssef. “Et tu, Brute? Privacy Analysis of Government Websites and Mobile Apps”. The Web Conference (WWW 2022) — see presentation on YouTube.
• N. Samarasinghe, M. Mannan. “On Cloaking Behaviors of Malicious Websites”. Elsevier Computers & Security, volume 101, Feb. 2021. 
• N. Samarasinghe, M. Mannan. “Towards a Global Perspective on Web Tracking”. Elsevier Computers & Security, volume 87, Jul. 2019. 
• N. Samarasinghe, M. Mannan. “Another look at TLS ecosystems in networked devices vs. Web servers”. Elsevier Computers & Security, volume 80, Jan. 2019.  
• N. Samarasinghe, M. Mannan. “Short Paper: TLS Ecosystems in Networked Devices vs. Web Servers”. Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2017 (FC’17). 
• N. Samarasinghe, S. Somé. “Generating a Domain Model from a Use Case Model”. IASSE. 2005. 

Theses

• “Supporting instances in use cases” – MCS 2005 (University of Ottawa)
• “Measuring for privacy: From tracking to cloaking” – Ph.D. 2022 (Concordia University)

Press Releases

• APWG Announces Papers Accepted for the 2022 Annual Symposium on Electronic Crime Research — Messages From the Edge of the Cybercrime Experience
  (Associated Press – Nov 18th, 2022)
• Des données récoltées sur les sites gouvernementaux (English translation: https://www-ledevoir-com.translate.goog/societe/769747/securite-informatique-des-donnees-recoltees-sur-les-sites-gouvernementaux?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp )
  (Le Devoir – Nov 7th, 2022)
• Government websites and apps use the same tracking software as commercial ones, according to new Concordia research 
  (Concordia News – May 17th, 2022)