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EDBT
2010
ACM
237views Database» more  EDBT 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
BronzeGate: real-time transactional data obfuscation for GoldenGate
Data privacy laws have appeared recently, such as the HIPAA laws for protecting medical records, and the PCI guidelines for protecting Credit Card information. Data privacy can be...
Shenoda Guirguis, Alok Pareek
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling Privacy as a Fundamental Construct for Social Networks
The current set of social networking platforms, e.g. Facebook and MySpace, has created a new class of Internet applications called social software. These systems focus on leveragi...
E. Michael Maximilien, Tyrone Grandison, Kun Liu, ...
SP
2010
IEEE
165views Security Privacy» more  SP 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
A Practical Attack to De-anonymize Social Network Users
—Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interestin...
Gilbert Wondracek, Thorsten Holz, Engin Kirda, Chr...
SOUPS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Password management strategies for online accounts
Given the widespread use of password authentication in online correspondence, subscription services, and shopping, there is growing concern about identity theft. When people reuse...
Shirley Gaw, Edward W. Felten
SP
2008
IEEE
285views Security Privacy» more  SP 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks
Decentralized distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where a malicious user pretends to have multiple identities (called sy...
Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky, ...