Publications related to Data breach

A Practical Influence Approximation for Privacy-Preserving Data Filtering in Federated Learning

Boi Faltings, Panayiotis Danassis, Ljubomir Rokvic

Federated Learning by nature is susceptible to low-quality, corrupted, or even malicious data that can severely degrade the quality of the learned model. Traditional techniques for data valuation cannot be applied as the data is never revealed. We present ...

2023

Learning from the Ethics of AI-A Research Proposal on Soft Law and Ethics of AI

Johan Robert Rochel

This contribution outlines a research proposal combining ethical guidelines on AI and a law-as-data approach. Building upon the definitions of soft law discussed in legal scholarship, it proposes a way of structuring the regulatory landscape on AI and of a ...

UBIQUITY PRESS LTD2022

Safeguarding the IoT From Malware Epidemics: A Percolation Theory Approach

Ainur Zhaikhan

The upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen to encompass massive numbers of connected devices, smart objects, and cyber-physical systems. Due to the large scale and massive deployment of devices, it is deemed infeasible to safeguard 100% of the devic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Crypt4GH: a file format standard enabling native access to encrypted data

Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza

Motivation: The majority of genome analysis tools and pipelines require data to be decrypted for access. This potentially leaves sensitive genetic data exposed, either because the unencrypted data is not removed after analysis, or because the data leaves t ...

Oxford University Press2021

MedCo: Enabling Secure and Privacy-Preserving Exploration of Distributed Clinical and Genomic Data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean Louis Raisaro, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Mickaël Misbach

The increasing number of health-data breaches is creating a complicated environment for medical-data sharing and, consequently, for medical progress. Therefore, the development of new solutions that can reassure clinical sites by enabling privacy-preservin ...

2019

MedChain: Accountable and Auditable Data Sharing in Distributed Medical Scenarios

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean Louis Raisaro, Linus Gasser

The current trend towards personalized medicine creates an urgent need to share data among different hospitals and health institutions, which endangers the privacy of the data subjects if not done with the appropriate precautions. Conversely, the frequency ...

2019

Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Medical and Genomic Data: From Theory to Practice

Jean Louis Raisaro

The impressive technological advances in genomic analysis and the significant drop in the cost of genome sequencing are paving the way to a variety of revolutionary applications in modern healthcare. In particular, the increasing understanding of the human ...

EPFL2018

UnLynx: A Decentralized System for Privacy-Conscious Data Sharing

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Jean Louis Raisaro, Zhicong Huang, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, David Jules Froelicher, Christian Vincent Mouchet, Patricia Egger

Current solutions for privacy-preserving data sharing among multiple parties either depend on a centralized authority that must be trusted and provides only weakest-link security (e.g., the entity that manages private/secret cryptographic keys), or leverag ...

De Gruyter2017

Physicochemical Characterization of Nebulized Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (SPIONs)

Paul Bowen, Guillaume Suarez, Louise Catherine Bryan, Géraldine Sylvie Coullerez

Background: Aerosol-mediated delivery of nano-based therapeutics to the lung has emerged as a promising alternative for treatment and prevention of lung diseases. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have attracted significant attention for ...

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc2015

Private Eyes: Secure Remote Biometric Authentication

Bryan Alexander Ford

We propose an efficient remote biometric authentication protocol that gives strong protection to the user’s biometric data in case of two common kinds of security breaches: (1) loss or theft of the user’s token (smart card, handheld device, etc.), giving t ...

SciTePress2015

Security observance throughout the life-cycle of embedded systems

Arjen Lenstra, Seyyd Hasan Mir Jalili

Embedded systems are an established part of life. Their security requirements underline the importance of properly formulated, implemented, and enforced security policies throughout their life-cycle. Currently, security is just an afterthought, and most so ...

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