National Science Foundation Funds Purdue Data-Anonymization Project

A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods. The grant will help the...

After Twitter Hack, NY Times Debates Social Network Security

In the wake of a high profile though harmless cross site scripting attack launched from Twitter.com’s Web site, the New York Times is sponsoring a debate about the security of online social networks that offers some harsh criticism of the micro blogging site. The Gray Lady pulled together top nam...

Windows Access Control Demystified

Hello everybody, We have constructed a logical model of Windows XP access control, in a declarative but executable Datalog format. We have built a scanner that reads access-control configuration information from the Windows registry, file system, and service control manager database, and feeds ra...