English
Related papers

Related papers: The 23andMe Data Breach: Analyzing Credential Stuf…

200 papers

Managing the security of employee work computers has become increasingly important as today's work model shifts to remote and hybrid work plans. In this paper, we explore the recent 2022 LastPass data breach, in which the attacker obtained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jessica Gentles , Mason Fields , Garrett Goodman , Suman Bhunia

As usage of generative AI tools skyrockets, the amount of sensitive information being exposed to these models and centralized model providers is alarming. For example, confidential source code from Samsung suffered a data leak as the text…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Manil Shrestha , Yashodha Ravichandran , Edward Kim

Development of sustainable insurance for cyber risks, with associated benefits, inter alia requires reduction of ambiguity of the risk. Considering cyber risk, and data breaches in particular, as a man-made catastrophe clarifies the…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-17 Spencer Wheatley , Annette Hofmann , Didier Sornette

In recent years, there has been rapid growth in mobile devices such as smartphones, and a number of applications are developed specifically for the smartphone market. In particular, there are many applications that are ``free'' to the user,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Hiroki Kuzuno , Satoshi Tonami

Synthetic network data generators (SynNetGens) are increasingly used to share realistic traffic traces without exposing sensitive raw data. While substantial effort has gone into improving fidelity, privacy is either assumed to be a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Minhao Jin , Hongyu Hè , Maria Apostolaki

Personalized AI agents rely on access to a user's digital footprint, which often includes sensitive data from private emails, chats and purchase histories. Yet this access creates a fundamental societal and privacy risk: systems lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Srija Mukhopadhyay , Sathwik Reddy , Shruthi Muthukumar , Jisun An , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become a touchstone model for modern privacy law, in part because it empowers consumers with unprecedented control over the use of their personal information. However, this same power may be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 James Pavur , Casey Knerr

It is important to study the risks of publishing privacy-sensitive data. Even if sensitive identities (e.g., name, social security number) were removed and advanced data perturbation techniques were applied, several de-anonymization attacks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Wei-Han Lee , Changchang Liu , Shouling Ji , Prateek Mittal , Ruby Lee

As a fundamental communicative service, email is playing an important role in both individual and corporate communications, which also makes it one of the most frequently attack vectors. An email's authenticity is based on an authentication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Kaiwen Shen , Chuhan Wang , Minglei Guo , Xiaofeng Zheng , Chaoyi Lu , Baojun Liu , Yuxuan Zhao , Shuang Hao , Haixin Duan , Qingfeng Pan , Min Yang

Cloud-based documents are inherently valuable, due to the volume and nature of sensitive personal and business content stored in them. Despite the importance of such documents to Internet users, there are still large gaps in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Martin Lazarov , Jeremiah Onaolapo , Gianluca Stringhini

Apple Intelligence is a generative AI (GenAI) service provided by Apple on its devices. While offering a similar set of features as other similar GenAI services, Apple Intelligence is claimed to be designed with an extra focus on user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haoling Zhou , Shixuan Zhao , Chao Wang , Zhiqiang Lin

This paper investigates how to effectively stop an attacker from using compromised user credentials to gain authorized entry to systems that they are otherwise not authorised to access. The proposed solution extends previous work to move…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Roy Henha Eyono

Intentional or unintentional leakage of confidential data is undoubtedly one of the most severe security threats that organizations face in the digital era. The threat now extends to our personal lives: a plethora of personal information is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-06 Michael Backes , Niklas Grimm , Aniket Kate

With the latest developments in technology, extra and extra human beings depend on their private gadgets to keep their touchy information. Concurrently, the surroundings in which these gadgets are linked have grown to grow to be greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Rushit Dave

In this digital era, our privacy is under constant threat as our personal data and traceable online/offline activities are frequently collected, processed and transferred by many software applications. Privacy attacks are often formed by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Pattaraporn Sangaroonsilp , Hoa Khanh Dam , Aditya Ghose

Misconfigured cloud storage buckets have leaked hundreds of millions of medical, voter, and customer records. These breaches are due to a combination of easily-guessable bucket names and error-prone security configurations, which, together,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jack Cable , Drew Gregory , Liz Izhikevich , Zakir Durumeric

After one year since the entry into force of the GDPR, all web sites and data controllers have updated their procedures to store users' data. The GDPR does not only cover how and what data should be saved by the service providers, but it…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Luca Bufalieri , Massimo La Morgia , Alessandro Mei , Julinda Stefa

As large language models (LLMs) become integrated into sensitive workflows, concerns grow over their potential to leak confidential information. We propose TrojanStego, a novel threat model in which an adversary fine-tunes an LLM to embed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Dominik Meier , Jan Philip Wahle , Paul Röttger , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Sequence models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and autoregressive image generators, have a tendency to memorize and inadvertently leak sensitive information. While this tendency has critical legal implications, existing tools are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Lorenzo Rossi , Michael Aerni , Jie Zhang , Florian Tramèr

Generative models are increasingly used to produce privacy-preserving synthetic data as a safe alternative to sharing sensitive training datasets. However, we demonstrate that such synthetic releases can still leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 S. M. Mustaqim , Anantaa Kotal , Paul H. Yi