Month: July 2018

End of term

~ Adrian Colyer ~ 5 Comments
It’s time to take my regular summer break from writing The Morning Paper - normal service will resume again on Monday 6th August. I’ll be topping up my paper backlog and scouting out interesting research during the break. If you’ve seen any great papers I haven’t already covered and that you think ‘The Morning Paper’ ... Continue Reading

EnclaveDB: a secure database using SGX

~ Adrian Colyer ~ 8 Comments
EnclaveDB: A secure database using SGX Priebe et al., IEEE Security & Privacy 2018 This is a really interesting paper (if you’re into this kind of thing I guess!) bringing together the security properties of Intel’s SGX enclaves with the Hekaton SQL Server database engine. The result is a secure database environment with impressive runtime ... Continue Reading

Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker’s advertising interface

~ Adrian Colyer ~ 6 Comments
Privacy risks with Facebook’s PII-based targeting: auditing a data broker’s advertising interface Venkatadri et al., IEEE Security and Privacy 2018 This is one of those jaw-hits-the-floor, can’t quite believe what I’m reading papers. The authors describe an attack exploiting Facebook’s custom audience feature, that can leak your PII. Specifically, we show how the adversary can ... Continue Reading