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Naked CIO: Social networks are useless for finding a job
Comment Obviously, there are exceptions but as these sites become even more popular and these trends of anonymity and loose connections become more pervasive, I expect those exceptions to become fewer and fewer. [04 Nov 2009]
Cryptanalysis on Improved Remote User Authentication Scheme Preserving User Anonymity
White Paper Remote user authentication using smartcards is the most widely used scheme for a valid user to login to a remote server and to access the services provided by the server over insecure channels. Due to the convenience, secure storage, and... [02 Oct 2009]
Bridging and Fingerprinting: Epistemic Attacks on Route Selection
White Paper The paper proves analytic bounds for both route fingerprinting and route bridging and describe the impact of these attacks on published anonymity-network designs. Users building routes through an anonymization network... [16 Sep 2009]
WaterCooler: Exploring an Organization Through Enterprise Social Media
White Paper Within the trusted confines of an organization, users can trade anonymity for a rich identity that carries information about their role, location, and position in its hierarchy. As organizations scale up, their... [29 Aug 2009]
An Intrusion Detection System in Mobile Adhoc Networks
White Paper The ultimate goal of the security solutions for wireless networks is to provide security services, such as authentication, confidentiality, integrity, anonymity, and availability, to mobile users. Networks are protected... [01 Jul 2009]
Efficient Table Anonymization for Aggregate Query Answering
White Paper This has led to a lot of recent research in privacy goals and table anonymization schemes, such as k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness and (k, e)-anonymity. The recent framework of permutation-based... [30 May 2009]
UK Biobank Records Data on the Health of 500,000 Individuals for Groundbreaking Medical Research
White Paper The challenge was to extract and deliver comprehensive data sets to medical researchers in a format that maintains participant anonymity and is easy for researchers to access and use. UK Biobank wanted to build a secure... [30 May 2009]
Gain Control Over the Vast Unknown: Curtailing Online Distribution of Counterfeit and Gray Market Goods
White Paper Although these problems have existed for centuries, they are only exacerbated by the global reach, low cost and anonymity of the Internet. Counterfeiting and gray market activity are major problems for brand owners. [16 May 2009]
Robust, Anonymous RFID Authentication With Constant Key-Lookup
White Paper The paper proposes a compiler that transforms a generic RFID authentication protocol (supporting anonymity) into one that achieves the same guarantees with constant key-lookup cost even when the number of tags is very... [15 Apr 2009]
Providing Anonymity in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper Anonymity has become an important problem in sensor networks, and has been widely researched in wireless ad hoc and wired networks. The limited capacity and resources of current sensor networks have brought new... [03 Apr 2009]
NHS Lothian GUM Clinic Frees Nurses' Time, and Improves Patient Care Using the Telephonetics VIP Result Solution
White Paper In addition, they needed to guarantee patient anonymity. The GUM clinic needed to be able to offer a telephone option for obtaining results but streamline the patients' experience when collecting test results and move... [30 Dec 2008]
Regulating E-Commerce Using XML
White Paper From the customer's perspective E-commerce offers convenience, variety, cost savings, and anonymity. E-commerce, which is short for 'Electronic Commerce', is simply the idea of replacing physical business transactions... [04 Dec 2008]
Denial of Service or Denial of Security?: How Attacks on Reliability Can Compromise Anonymity
White Paper The paper shows that Denial of Service (DoS) lowers anonymity as messages need to get retransmitted to be delivered, presenting more opportunities for attack. The results are backed by probabilistic modeling and... [22 Oct 2008]
Google slashes time to search anonymity by half
News Google has taken steps to improve privacy by reducing the time it holds onto data gained from users of its search service. The search giant has said it will now anonymise IP addresses on its server logs after nine months rather than the... [09 Sep 2008]
SMS snitch pilot targets knife crime in schools
News It's easily accessible and provides young people with peace of mind given the complete anonymity of the service. A plan to use SMS to combat youth knife crime is being trialled in schools in East London. [03 Jun 2008]
