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2022-04-18
Zhang, Junpeng, Li, Mengqian, Zeng, Shuiguang, Xie, Bin, Zhao, Dongmei.  2021.  A Survey on Security and Privacy Threats to Federated Learning. 2021 International Conference on Networking and Network Applications (NaNA). :319–326.
Federated learning (FL) has nourished a promising scheme to solve the data silo, which enables multiple clients to construct a joint model without centralizing data. The critical concerns for flourishing FL applications are that build a security and privacy-preserving learning environment. It is thus highly necessary to comprehensively identify and classify potential threats to utilize FL under security guarantees. This paper starts from the perspective of launched attacks with different computing participants to construct the unique threats classification, highlighting the significant attacks, e.g., poisoning attacks, inference attacks, and generative adversarial networks (GAN) attacks. Our study shows that existing FL protocols do not always provide sufficient security, containing various attacks from both clients and servers. GAN attacks lead to larger significant threats among the kinds of threats given the invisible of the attack process. Moreover, we summarize a detailed review of several defense mechanisms and approaches to resist privacy risks and security breaches. Then advantages and weaknesses are generalized, respectively. Finally, we conclude the paper to prospect the challenges and some potential research directions.
2022-04-12
Kalai Chelvi, T., Ramapraba, P. S., Sathya Priya, M., Vimala, S., Shobarani, R., Jeshwanth, N L, Babisha, A..  2021.  A Web Application for Prevention of Inference Attacks using Crowd Sourcing in Social Networks. 2021 2nd International Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC). :328—332.
Many people are becoming more reliant on internet social media sites like Facebook. Users can utilize these networks to reveal articles to them and engage with your peers. Several of the data transmitted from these connections is intended to be confidential. However, utilizing publicly available data and learning algorithms, it is feasible to forecast concealed informative data. The proposed research work investigates the different ways to initiate deduction attempts on freely released photo sharing data in order to envisage concealed informative data. Next, this research study offers three distinct sanitization procedures that could be used in a range of scenarios. Moreover, the effectualness of all these strategies and endeavor to utilize collective teaching and research to reveal important bits of the data set are analyzed. It shows how, by using the sanitization methods presented here, a user may lower the accuracy by including both global and interpersonal categorization techniques.
2020-03-18
Pouliot, David, Griffy, Scott, Wright, Charles V..  2019.  The Strength of Weak Randomization: Easily Deployable, Efficiently Searchable Encryption with Minimal Leakage. 2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). :517–529.

Efficiently searchable and easily deployable encryption schemes enable an untrusted, legacy service such as a relational database engine to perform searches over encrypted data. The ease with which such schemes can be deployed on top of existing services makes them especially appealing in operational environments where encryption is needed but it is not feasible to replace large infrastructure components like databases or document management systems. Unfortunately all previously known approaches for efficiently searchable and easily deployable encryption are vulnerable to inference attacks where an adversary can use knowledge of the distribution of the data to recover the plaintext with high probability. We present a new efficiently searchable, easily deployable database encryption scheme that is provably secure against inference attacks even when used with real, low-entropy data. We implemented our constructions in Haskell and tested databases up to 10 million records showing our construction properly balances security, deployability and performance.

2017-07-24
Durak, F. Betül, DuBuisson, Thomas M., Cash, David.  2016.  What Else is Revealed by Order-Revealing Encryption? Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. :1155–1166.

The security of order-revealing encryption (ORE) has been unclear since its invention. Dataset characteristics for which ORE is especially insecure have been identified, such as small message spaces and low-entropy distributions. On the other hand, properties like one-wayness on uniformly-distributed datasets have been proved for ORE constructions. This work shows that more plaintext information can be extracted from ORE ciphertexts than was previously thought. We identify two issues: First, we show that when multiple columns of correlated data are encrypted with ORE, attacks can use the encrypted columns together to reveal more information than prior attacks could extract from the columns individually. Second, we apply known attacks, and develop new attacks, to show that the leakage of concrete ORE schemes on non-uniform data leads to more accurate plaintext recovery than is suggested by the security theorems which only dealt with uniform inputs.