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CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Countering kernel rootkits with lightweight hook protection
Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control d...
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, Peng Ning
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On non-cooperative location privacy: a game-theoretic analysis
In mobile networks, authentication is a required primitive of the majority of security protocols. However, an adversary can track the location of mobile nodes by monitoring pseudo...
Julien Freudiger, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Jean-...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
RAID
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
SpyShield: Preserving Privacy from Spy Add-Ons
Spyware infections are becoming extremely pervasive, posing a grave threat to Internet users’ privacy. Control of such an epidemic is increasingly difficult for the existing def...
Zhuowei Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Jong Youl Choi
WPES
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP
Quite often on the Internet, cryptography is used to protect private, personal communications. However, most commonly, systems such as PGP are used, which use long-lived encryptio...
Nikita Borisov, Ian Goldberg, Eric A. Brewer