scholarly journals Trace Attack against Biometric Mobile Applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanaa Ghouzali ◽  
Maryam Lafkih ◽  
Wadood Abdul ◽  
Mounia Mikram ◽  
Mohammed El Haziti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Legitimate User ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
Biometric Information ◽  
Mobile Authentication

With the exponential increase in the dependence on mobile devices in everyday life, there is a growing concern related to privacy and security issues in the Gulf countries; therefore, it is imperative that security threats should be analyzed in detail. Mobile devices store enormous amounts of personal and financial information, unfortunately without any security. In order to secure mobile devices against different threats, biometrics has been applied and shown to be effective. However, biometric mobile applications are also vulnerable to several types of attacks that can decrease their security. Biometric information itself is considered sensitive data; for example, fingerprints can leave traces in touched objects and facial images can be captured everywhere or accessed by the attacker if the facial image is stored in the mobile device (lost or stolen). Hence, an attacker can easily forge the identity of a legitimate user and access data on a device. In this paper, the effects of a trace attack on the sensitivity of biometric mobile applications are investigated in terms of security and user privacy. Experimental results carried out on facial and fingerprint mobile authentication applications using different databases have shown that these mobile applications are vulnerable to the proposed attack, which poses a serious threat to the overall system security and user privacy.

scholarly journals A Secure Ciphertext Retrieval Scheme against Insider KGAs for Mobile Devices in Cloud Storage

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Run Xie ◽  
Chanlian He ◽  
Dongqing Xie ◽  
Chongzhi Gao ◽  
Xiaojun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Encrypted Data ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Efficiency Comparison ◽  
Cloud Servers

With the advent of cloud computing, data privacy has become one of critical security issues and attracted much attention as more and more mobile devices are relying on the services in cloud. To protect data privacy, users usually encrypt their sensitive data before uploading to cloud servers, which renders the data utilization to be difficult. The ciphertext retrieval is able to realize utilization over encrypted data and searchable public key encryption is an effective way in the construction of encrypted data retrieval. However, the previous related works have not paid much attention to the design of ciphertext retrieval schemes that are secure against inside keyword-guessing attacks (KGAs). In this paper, we first construct a new architecture to resist inside KGAs. Moreover we present an efficient ciphertext retrieval instance with a designated tester (dCRKS) based on the architecture. This instance is secure under the inside KGAs. Finally, security analysis and efficiency comparison show that the proposal is effective for the retrieval of encrypted data in cloud computing.

scholarly journals Privacy and Security Issues in Online Social Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaukat Ali ◽  
Naveed Islam ◽  
Azhar Rauf ◽  
Ikram Din ◽  
Mohsen Guizani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Social Sphere

The advent of online social networks (OSN) has transformed a common passive reader into a content contributor. It has allowed users to share information and exchange opinions, and also express themselves in online virtual communities to interact with other users of similar interests. However, OSN have turned the social sphere of users into the commercial sphere. This should create a privacy and security issue for OSN users. OSN service providers collect the private and sensitive data of their customers that can be misused by data collectors, third parties, or by unauthorized users. In this paper, common security and privacy issues are explained along with recommendations to OSN users to protect themselves from these issues whenever they use social media.

scholarly journals Mobile Government Applications Based on Security and Privacy: A Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Ala'a Saeb Al-Sherideh ◽  
Roesnita Ismail ◽  
Fauziah Abdul Wahid ◽  
Norasikin Fabil ◽  
Waidah Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The Public ◽  
Privacy Requirements ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Government

Mobile applications available in anytime and from anywhere. The utilizing of mobile governmental applications is significant to reduce the efforts and time that are required to accomplish the public services by citizens. The main challenges that face the acceptance and adoption of mobile governmental applications are the privacy and security issues. The users, who do not trust the security of mobile governmental applications, may reject the use of these applications which discourages the government to adopt the mobile services. This study focuses in investigating the security and privacy requirements of mobile government applications. Many related works are reviewed and discussed to understand the important security requirements of mobile government applications. The main results indicate that effective privacy and security of mobile government applications should be assured so as to enhance the level of adopting and using these applications. The security requirements involve many considerations such as the hardware characteristics, software characteristics, and communication characteristics. This article mainly gives better understanding of security requirements of mobile government applications.   

scholarly journals Consumers Trust, Privacy and Security Issues on Mobile Commerce Websites

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Mohammad awni ahmad mahmoud ◽  
laith Talal khrais ◽  
Rasha mohammad alolayan ◽  
Asyah muzahim alkaabi ◽  
Sara qasem Al- suwaidi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Regulatory Bodies ◽  
User Perspectives

The proliferation of mobile devices and the increased adoption of the internet across the globe has led to the rise of m-commerce. reports highlight that in spite of the different advancements in the technology, trust in the platform is still a significant hindrance to its adoption. Consequently, the current study seeks to identify privacy and security issues affecting m-commerce users of three shopping sites: Amazon, Alibaba and eBay. The aim here is to develop recommendations that mitigate these challenges. The expected output of the study is an anticipation for insights regarding user perspectives on trust in m-commerce and as a result, contribute to existent knowledge in the area benefitting regulatory bodies and online vendors.

Cloud Computing Security Issues of Sensitive Data

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-84
Author(s):  
Manpreet Kaur Walia ◽  
Malka N. Halgamuge ◽  
Nadeesha D. Hettikankanamage ◽  
Craig Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Business Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Number Of Solutions ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Cloud Computing Security ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Numerous organizations are using aspects of the cloud to store data, but as sensitive data is placed on the cloud, privacy and security become difficult to maintain. When users upload data to the cloud, they may become increasingly vulnerable to account hijacking, unauthorized access, and the data may become unavailable because of various technical reasons. Questions remain about the security of sensitive data in the cloud, and in this chapter, the authors perform an analysis of 36 peer reviewed publications describing 30 observations of cloud computing technology (2010-2017). In the articles, applications of cloud computing include, for instance, business (26%) and the internet of things (IoT; 2%), and the result suggests that some issues are unique to a particular domain (such as business, education, health) and some issues cross all domains. The results suggest that data integrity issues have the highest number of solutions whereas data breaches have the lowest number of solutions.

scholarly journals Prevention of Clone Attack in Online Social Media Integrating Secure Data Transmission

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 2961-2967
Author(s):  
Abishek Kashyap. S
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Legitimate User ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Secure Data Transmission ◽  
User Data ◽  
The Individual

Social networking is becoming so essential nowadays and is playing a bigger role in every man’s life for sharing information and knowledge. Also social network is used to see the everyday activities, photos, videos, political agendas and propagandas. Therefore, it is now becoming an important tool to stay updated in this dynamic world. With large chunks of data being generated every second, there is a growing concern about Data protection and user privacy in the Social media network. One of the major concerns being, ‘Fake Users’ - misusing the authorized user’s information like photos and videos without the authorized user’s permission and disguising oneself as a legitimate user. In our contemporary world, many fake profiles are being created for fraudulent activities like money making, malware / virus / Trojan distribution to use user data, especially with malicious intent. In this paper Java static watermarking is proposed. Java static watermark is used in our social media website in order to associate each user's footprint with respect to their unique ID, eliminating the crux of fake users. It is also very evident to say that data present on the cloud is no less prone to cyber-attacks. In this paper, integration of steganography methods for protection of sensitive data on the public cloud server is also proposed to validate its viability and its increased security. The Algorithms used ensure the individual information is kept secret and transmitted in a secure manner with user privacy preserving.

Cloud Computing Security Issues of Sensitive Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 1642-1667
Author(s):  
Manpreet Kaur Walia ◽  
Malka N. Halgamuge ◽  
Nadeesha D. Hettikankanamage ◽  
Craig Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Business Education ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Number Of Solutions ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Cloud Computing Security ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Numerous organizations are using aspects of the cloud to store data, but as sensitive data is placed on the cloud, privacy and security become difficult to maintain. When users upload data to the cloud, they may become increasingly vulnerable to account hijacking, unauthorized access, and the data may become unavailable because of various technical reasons. Questions remain about the security of sensitive data in the cloud, and in this chapter, the authors perform an analysis of 36 peer reviewed publications describing 30 observations of cloud computing technology (2010-2017). In the articles, applications of cloud computing include, for instance, business (26%) and the internet of things (IoT; 2%), and the result suggests that some issues are unique to a particular domain (such as business, education, health) and some issues cross all domains. The results suggest that data integrity issues have the highest number of solutions whereas data breaches have the lowest number of solutions.

An Overview of Big Data Security with Hadoop Framework

2016 ◽  
pp. 165-181
Author(s):  
Jaya Singh ◽  
Ashish Maruti Gimekar ◽  
S. Venkatesan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Security ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Almost All

Big Data is a very huge volume of data which is beyond the storage capacity and processing capability of traditional system. The volume of data is increasing at exponential rate. Therefore, there is the need of such mechanism to store and process such high volume of data. The impressiveness of the Big data lies with its major applicability to almost all industries. Therefore, it represents both, the tremendous opportunities and complex challenges. Such omnipotent eminence leads to the privacy and security related challenges to the big data. Nowadays, security of big data is mainly focused by every organization because it contains a lot of sensitive data and useful information for taking decisions. The hostile nature of digital data itself has certain inherited security challenges. The aim of Big data security is to identify security issues and to find the better solution for handling security challenges. The observation and analysis of different security mechanism related to the issues of big data and their solutions are focused in this chapter.

Models of Privacy and Security Issues on Mobile Applications

2017 ◽  
pp. 84-105
Author(s):  
Lili Nemec Zlatolas ◽  
Tatjana Welzer-Druzovec ◽  
Marjan Heričko ◽  
Marko Hölbl
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Research Topic ◽  
User Data

The development of smart phones and other smart devices has led to the development of mobile applications, which are in use frequently by the users. It is also anticipated that the number of mobile applications will grow rapidly in the next years. This topic has, therefore, been researched highly in the past years. Mobile applications gather user data and that is why privacy and security in mobile applications is a very important research topic. In this chapter we give an overview of the current research on privacy and security issues of mobile applications.

scholarly journals Privacy and Security Issues with Mobile Health Research Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (S1) ◽  
pp. 154-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey A. Tovino
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Breaches ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
State Research ◽  
Diverse Data

This article examines the privacy and security issues associated with mobile application-mediated health research, concentrating in particular on research conducted or participated in by independent scientists, citizen scientists, and patient researchers. Building on other articles in this issue that examine state research laws and state data protection laws as possible sources of privacy and security protections for mobile research participants, this article focuses on the lack of application of federal standards to mobile application-mediated health research. As discussed in more detail below, the voluminous and diverse data collected by some independent scientists who use mobile applications to conduct health research may be at risk for unregulated privacy and security breaches, leading to dignitary, psychological, and economic harms for which participants have few legally enforceable rights or remedies under current federal law. Federal lawmakers may wish to consider enacting new legislation that would require otherwise unregulated health data holders to implement reasonable data privacy, security, and breach notification measures.

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