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CCS
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Protecting users from "themselves"
Computer usage and threat models have changed drastically since the advent of access control systems in the 1960s. Instead of multiple users sharing a single file system, each us...
William Enck, Sandra Rueda, Joshua Schiffman, Yoge...
ICC
2008
IEEE
134views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Secret Little Functions and Codebook for Protecting Users from Password Theft
—In this paper, we discuss how to prevent users’ passwords from being stolen by adversaries. We propose differentiated security mechanisms in which a user has the freedom to ch...
Yang Xiao, Chung-Chih Li, Ming Lei, Susan V. Vrbsk...
PERCOM
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
PoX: Protecting users from malicious Facebook applications
Abstract—Online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut store large amounts of sensitive user data. While a user can legitimately assume that a social network provid...
Manuel Egele, Andreas Moser, Christopher Kruegel, ...
PVLDB
2010
143views more  PVLDB 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
HweeHwa Pang, Xuhua Ding, Xiaokui Xiao
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Forcehttps: protecting high-security web sites from network attacks
As wireless networks proliferate, web browsers operate in an increasingly hostile network environment. The HTTPS protocol has the potential to protect web users from network attac...
Collin Jackson, Adam Barth