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2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Security Impact Ratings Considered Harmful
In this paper, we question the common practice of assigning security impact ratings to OS updates. Specifically, we present evidence that ranking updates by their perceived securi...
Jeff Arnold, Tim Abbott, Waseem Daher, Gregory Pri...
NSPW
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Googling considered harmful
Virtually every Internet user on the planet uses the powerful free tools offered by a handful of information service providers in many aspects of their personal and professional l...
Gregory J. Conti
CSREASAM
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Stochastic Model of the Damage Propagation in Database Systems
Security defense tools like firewalls and antivirus softwares are not sufficient to defend against dynamic threats to database systems. Successful attacks could not only seriously ...
Hai Wang, Su Yan
ECWEB
2007
Springer
162views ECommerce» more  ECWEB 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
Impact of Relevance Measures on the Robustness and Accuracy of Collaborative Filtering
The open nature of collaborative recommender systems present a security problem. Attackers that cannot be readily distinguished from ordinary users may inject biased profiles, deg...
Jeff J. Sandvig, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin D. Burke
CIIA
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Study on the Convergence of FingerHashing and a Secured Biometric System
Because biometrics-based authentication offers several advantages face to other authentication methods, it is important that such systems be designed to withstand attacks. Reliabil...
Rima Belguechi, Christophe Rosenberger