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We are currently confronting with a large number of Smartphone applications, which are developed for different purposes that on the one hand, may benefit users by easing many of their daily tasks, while on the other hand, may threaten their privacy. An important issue regarding this situation is that, smartphone users are often unaware of the privacy risks or even of the data collected by applications...
With the prevalence of privacy incidents and recurrent leaks, privacy protection has become a concern of users and data protection entities. Previous research in privacy risk prevention has mostly followed the "collect and prevent" philosophy, e.g., by applying anonymization techniques to the user data on the back-end. These approaches neglect the users' right to informational self-determination...
Privacy-enhancing attribute-based credentials (Privacy-ABC) technologies represent a particular category of security mechanisms that enable privacy-friendly identity management systems. In order to provide privacy for users and strong authentication for service providers, they rely on a number of different cryptographic building blocks, which increase their complexity. Hence, efficiency of these technologies...
In current e-banking systems, millions of consumers are now able to conduct financial transactions using a wide range of mobile devices; this growth exposes the system not only to the set of known threats that are now migrating from traditional PC-based e-banking to the mobile-based scenario, but, to emerging threats specifically targeting mobile devices. Considering the sensitive nature of the financial...
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