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CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A privacy recommendation wizard for users of social networking sites
Privacy is a huge problem for users of social networking sites. While sites like Facebook allow individual users to personalize fine-grained privacy settings, this has proven quit...
Lujun Fang, Heedo Kim, Kristen LeFevre, Aaron Tami
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 7 months ago
GUPT: privacy preserving data analysis made easy
It is often highly valuable for organizations to have their data analyzed by external agents. However, any program that computes on potentially sensitive data risks leaking inform...
Prashanth Mohan, Abhradeep Thakurta, Elaine Shi, D...
IEEEARES
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Securing DNS Services through System Self Cleansing and Hardware Enhancements
-- Domain Name Systems (DNS) provide the mapping between easily-remembered host names and their IP addresses. Popular DNS implementations however contain vulnerabilities that are e...
Yih Huang, David Arsenault, Arun Sood
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
User-controllable learning of security and privacy policies
Studies have shown that users have great difficulty specifying their security and privacy policies in a variety of application domains. While machine learning techniques have succ...
Patrick Gage Kelley, Paul Hankes Drielsma, Norman ...
SOUPS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Revealing hidden context: improving mental models of personal firewall users
The Windows Vista personal firewall provides its diverse users with a basic interface that hides many operational details. However, concealing the impact of network context on th...
Fahimeh Raja, Kirstie Hawkey, Konstantin Beznosov