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h-index: 15
Works: 41
Citations: 1,586

Most-cited papers

“Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?” Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale
Irwin Reyes, Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Amit Elazari Bar On +3 more
2018Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies236 citations Open access
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Android Permissions Remystified: A Field Study on Contextual Integrity
Primal Wijesekera, Arjun Baokar, Ashkan Hosseini, S. Egelman +2 more
2015USENIX Security Symposium234 citations
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50 Ways to Leak Your Data: An Exploration of Apps' Circumvention of the Android Permissions System
Joel Reardon, Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On +2 more
2019USENIX Security Symposium211 citations
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Privacy Attitudes of Smart Speaker Users
Nathan Malkin, J. Deatrick, Allen Tong, Primal Wijesekera +2 more
2019Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies197 citations Open access
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The Feasibility of Dynamically Granted Permissions: Aligning Mobile Privacy with User Preferences
Primal Wijesekera, Arjun Baokar, Lynn Tsai, Joel Reardon +3 more
2017IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy162 citations
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Investigating Users' Preferences and Expectations for Always-Listening Voice Assistants
Madiha Tabassum, Tomasz Kosinski, A. Frik, Nathan Malkin +3 more
2019Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies81 citations
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Contextualizing Privacy Decisions for Better Prediction (and Protection)
Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Irwin Reyes, Lynn Tsai +5 more
2018International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems80 citations
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Turtle Guard: Helping Android Users Apply Contextual Privacy Preferences
Lynn Tsai, Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Irwin Reyes +4 more
2017Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security63 citations
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On The Ridiculousness of Notice and Consent: Contradictions in App Privacy Policies
Ehimare Okoyomon, N. Samarin, Primal Wijesekera, Amit Elazari Bar On +4 more
201958 citations
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The Price is (Not) Right: Comparing Privacy in Free and Paid Apps
Catherine Han, Irwin Reyes, Álvaro Feal, Joel Reardon +5 more
2020Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies57 citations Open access
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"You've Got Your Nice List of Bugs, Now What?" Vulnerability Discovery and Management Processes in the Wild
N. Alomar, Primal Wijesekera, Edward Qiu, S. Egelman
2020SOUPS @ USENIX Security Symposium41 citations
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Investigating MMM Ponzi Scheme on Bitcoin
Yazan Boshmaf, Charitha Elvitigala, Husam Al Jawaheri, Primal Wijesekera +1 more
2019ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security26 citations Open access
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Lessons in VCR Repair: Compliance of Android App Developers with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
N. Samarin, Shayna Kothari, Z. Siyed, Oscar Bjorkman +6 more
2023Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies21 citations Open access
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Fix that Fix Commit: A real-world remediation analysis of JavaScript projects
Vinuri Bandara, Thisura Rathnayake, Nipuna Weerasekara, Charitha Elvitigala +3 more
2020IEEE Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation19 citations
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1 Don ’ t Accept Candy from Strangers: An Analysis of Th ird-Party Mobile SDKs
Á. Lvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, J. Tapiador, Primal Wijesekera +3 more
202117 citations
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Music Emotion Visualization through Colour
Januka Dharmapriya, Lahiru Dayarathne, Tikiri Diasena, Shiromi Arunathilake +2 more
2021International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communications11 citations
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Dynamically Regulating Mobile Application Permissions
Primal Wijesekera, Arjun Baokar, Lynn Tsai, Joel Reardon +3 more
2018IEEE Security and Privacy10 citations Open access
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QARMA-FL: Quality-Aware Robust Model Aggregation for Mobile Crowdsourcing
Shehan Edirimannage, Charitha Elvitigala, Ibrahim Khalil, Primal Wijesekera +1 more
2024IEEE Internet of Things Journal8 citations
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Vaccination trials on hold: malicious and low credibility content on Twitter during the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine development
Sameera Horawalavithana, R. De Silva, Nipuna Weerasekara, N. G. Kin Wai +5 more
2022Computational and mathematical organization theory8 citations Open access
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ZeTFRi—A Zero Trust-Based Free Rider Detection Framework for Next Generation Federated Learning Networks
Shehan Edirimannage, Ibrahim Khalil, Charitha Elvitigala, Wathsara Daluwatta +2 more
2025IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications7 citations
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Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale
Irwin Reyes, Primal Wijesekera, Joel Reardon, Amit Elazari Bar On +3 more
20186 citations
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Decoupling data-at-rest encryption and smartphone locking with wearable devices
Ildar Muslukhov, San-Tsai Sun, Primal Wijesekera, Yazan Boshmaf +1 more
2016Pervasive and Mobile Computing6 citations Open access
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Demo: Large Scale Analysis on Vulnerability Remediation in Open-source JavaScript Projects
Vinuri Bandara, Thisura Rathnayake, Nipuna Weerasekara, Charitha Elvitigala +4 more
2021Conference on Computer and Communications Security5 citations
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Investigating the Compliance of Android App Developers with the CCPA
N. Samarin, Shayna Kothari, Z. Siyed, Primal Wijesekera +3 more
20214 citations
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Don’t accept candies from strangers: An analysis of third-party SDKs
Álvaro Feal, Julien Gamba, Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez, Primal Wijesekera +3 more
20204 citations
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Distributed Indexing and Locking : In Search of Scalable Consistency
Mahdi Tayarani Najaran, Primal Wijesekera, A. Warfield, N. Hutchinson
20113 citations
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Don’t Forget to Include that Camera in the Threat Model: Vulnerability of ATM Systems due to Surveillance Cameras
Piyumi Seneviratne, Dilanka Perera, Harinda Samarasekara, C. Keppitiyagama +3 more
2021International Journal on Advances in Ict for Emerging Regions (icter)2 citations Open access
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Priority Based Subflow Selection in MPTCP: A Case Study
Kshithija Liyanage, Tharindu Wijethilake, K. Gunawardana, K. Thilakarathne +2 more
2020International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions2 citations
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An investigation of MMM Ponzi scheme on Bitcoin
Yazan Boshmaf, Charitha Elvitigala, Husam Al Jawaheri, Primal Wijesekera +1 more
20192 citations
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R+R: Matrioska: A User-Centric Defense Against Virtualization-Based Repackaging Malware on Android
Simone Zerbini, Samuele Doria, Primal Wijesekera, Serge Egelman +1 more
2024Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference1 citations
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Malicious and Low Credibility URLs on Twitter during COVID-19
Sameera Horawalavithana, R. De Silva, Mohamed Nabeel, Charitha Elvitigala +2 more
2021arXiv.org1 citations
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User-Controlled Subflow Selection in MPTCP: A Case Study
Kshithija Liyanage, Tharindu Wijethilake, K. Gunawardana, K. Thilakarathne +2 more
20211 citations Open access
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COMONet: Community Mobile Network
Primal Wijesekera, C. Keppitiyagama
2020arXiv.org1 citations
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The Influence of Community Interactions on User Affinity in Social Networks: A Facebook Case Study
Malith Senaweera, R. Dissanayake, Nuwini Chamindi, Anupa Shyamlal +6 more
20182018 National Information Technology Conference (NITC)1 citations
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Cued Mnemonics for Better Security and Memorability
Primal Wijesekera, Ivan Cherapau, Ayumi Samarakoon, Konstantin Beznosov
20141 citations
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Scalable Database Management System (DBMS) architecture with Innesto
Primal Wijesekera
20121 citations
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Empirical Analysis of Sri Lankan Mobile Health Ecosystem: A Precursor to an Effective Stakeholder Engagement
K. Thilakarathna, Sachintha Pitigala, Jayantha Fernando, Primal Wijesekera
2024arXiv.org0 citations
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Emotion Based Music Visualization with Fractal Arts
Januka Dharmapriya, Lahiru Dayarathne, Tikiri Diasena, Shiromi Arunathilake +2 more
2023International Conference on Image Processing and Vision Engineering0 citations Open access
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Challenges in investigating Cybercrime in social networks: A Sri Lankan Perspective
Laksiri Geethal, Kasun de Zoysa, K. Thilakarathna, Primal Wijesekera +1 more
20200 citations
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Failures of Dynamic Control Systems
Álvaro Feal, Primal Wijesekera, S. Egelman, Tushar Goyal +4 more
20190 citations
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Contextual permission models for better privacy protection
Primal Wijesekera
20180 citations
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