TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bender, Benedict
A1  - Fabian, Benjamin
A1  - Lessmann, Stefan
A1  - Haupt, Johannes
T1  - E-Mail Tracking
BT  - status quo and novel countermeasures
T2  - Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
N2  - E-mail advertisement, as one instrument in the marketing mix, allows companies to collect fine-grained behavioural data about individual users’ e-mail reading habits realised through sophisticated tracking mechanisms. Such tracking can be harmful for user privacy and security. This problem is especially severe since e-mail tracking techniques gather data without user consent. Striving to increase privacy and security in e-mail communication, the paper makes three contributions. First, a large database of newsletter e-mails is developed. This data facilitates investigating the prevalence of e- mail tracking among 300 global enterprises from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Second, countermeasures are developed for automatically identifying and blocking e-mail tracking mechanisms without impeding the user experience. The approach consists of identifying important tracking descriptors and creating a neural network-based detection model. Last, the effectiveness of the proposed approach is established by means of empirical experimentation. The results suggest a classification accuracy of 99.99%.
KW  - E-Mail Tracking
KW  - Countermeasures
KW  - Privacy
KW  - Security
KW  - Machine Learning
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2016/ISSecurity/Presentations/13/
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Junghanns, Philipp
A1  - Fabian, Benjamin
A1  - Ermakova, Tatiana
T1  - Engineering of secure multi-cloud storage
JF  - Computers in industry : an international, application oriented research journal
N2  - This article addresses security and privacy issues associated with storing data in public cloud services. It presents an architecture based on a novel secure cloud gateway that allows client systems to store sensitive data in a semi-trusted multi-cloud environment while providing confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data. This proxy system implements a space-efficient, computationally-secure threshold secret sharing scheme to store shares of a secret in several distinct cloud datastores. Moreover, the system integrates a comprehensive set of security measures and cryptographic protocols to mitigate threats induced by cloud computing. Performance in practice and code quality of the implementation are analyzed in extensive experiments and measurements. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Cloud computing
KW  - Data exchange
KW  - Security
KW  - Privacy
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2016.09.001
SN  - 0166-3615
SN  - 1872-6194
VL  - 83
SP  - 108
EP  - 120
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -