Conference Publications

Elias Papadopoulos, Michalis Diamantaris, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Thanasis Petsas, Sotiris Ioannidis and Evangelos Markatos. The Long-Standing Privacy Debate: Mobile Websites Vs Mobile Apps. In Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), April 2017, Perth, Western Australia. Best Paper Honorable Mention Award. (pdf, slides)

Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Giorgos Christou, Thanasis Petsas and Giorgos Vasiliadis. MAD: A Middleware Framework for Multi-Step Attack Detection. In proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS 2015), co-located with 18th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2015), November 2015, Kyoto, Japan. (pdf)

Iasonas Polakis, Michalis Diamantaris, Thanasis Petsas, Federico Maggi and Sotiris Ioannidis. Powerslave: Analyzing the Energy Consumption of Mobile Antivirus Software. In Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware and Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2015), July 2015, Milano, Italy. (pdf) – press: Dr.Shem

Thanasis Petsas, Giorgos Tsirantonakis, Elias Athanasopoulos and Sotiris Ioannidis. Two-factor Authentication: Is the World Ready? Quantifying 2FA Adoption. In Proceedings of the 8th European Workshop on System Security (EuroSec 2015), April 2015, Bordeaux, France. (pdf, slides)

Thanasis Petsas, Kazuya Okada, Hajime Tazaki, Gregory Blanc and Pawel Pawlinski. A Trusted Knowledge Management System for Multi-layer Threat Analysis. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy (TRUST 2014), (Extended Abstract), June 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. (pdf, poster)

Thanasis Petsas, Giannis Voyatzis, Elias Athanasopoulos, Michalis Polychronakis and Sotiris Ioannidis. Rage Against the Virtual Machine: Hindering Dynamic Analysis of Android Malware. In Proceedings of the 7th European Workshop on System Security (EUROSEC 2014). April 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (pdf, poster, slides) – press: The Register

Thanasis Petsas, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Thomas Karagiannis. Rise of the Planet of the Apps: A Systematic Study of the Mobile App Ecosystem. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement (IMC 2013). October 2013, Barcelona, Spain. (pdf, slides)

Iasonas Polakis, Georgios Kontaxis, Spiros Antonatos, Eleni Gessiou, Thanasis Petsas and Evangelos P. Markatos. Using Social Networks to Harvest Email Addresses. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2010), co-located with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). October 2010, Chicago, IL. (pdf)

Spiros Antonatos, Iasonas Polakis, Thanasis Petsas and Evangelos P. Markatos. A systematic characterization of IM threats using honeypots. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2010). March 2010, San Diego, CA. (pdf, slides)

Journal Publications

Thanasis Petsas, Antonis Papadogiannakis, Michalis Polychronakis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Thomas Karagiannis. Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of the Mobile App Ecosystem. In ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ToMPECS) journal, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 7:1–7:33, May 2017.

Theses and Reports

Thanasis Petsas. Rise of the Planet of the Apps: A Systematic Study of the Mobile App Ecosystem. M.Sc. Thesis. Computer Science Department, University of Crete. November 2012. (pdf)

Thanasis Petsas. HoneyBuddy: a honeypot architecture for detecting IM threats in the wild. B.Sc, Thesis. Computer Science Department, University of Crete. June 2009. (pdf)

Thanasis Petsas, Elias Athanasopoulos and Sotiris Ioannidis. JSMPI: Building Parallel Applications in the Browser Environment. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, June 2011. (pdf)

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