Jieren Cheng¹, Jun Li^{2, *}, Naixue Xiong³, Meizhu Chen², Hao Guo², Xinzhi Yao²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.3, pp. 2247-2262, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011668

Abstract Nowadays, as lightweight mobile clients become more powerful and widely used, more and more information is stored on lightweight mobile clients, user sensitive data privacy protection has become an urgent concern and problem to be solved. There has been a corresponding rise of security solutions proposed by researchers, however, the current security mechanisms on lightweight mobile clients are proven to be fragile. Due to the fact that this research field is immature and still unexplored in-depth, with this paper, we aim to provide a structured and comprehensive study on privacy protection using trusted execution environment (TEE) for lightweight mobile clients.… More >

Jun Li^{1, 2}, Jieren Cheng^{2, *}, Naixue Xiong³, Lougao Zhan⁴, Yuan Zhang¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.65, No.1, pp. 723-741, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.011272

Abstract Security and privacy issues have become a rapidly growing problem with the fast development of big data in public health. However, big data faces many ongoing serious challenges in the process of collection, storage, and use. Among them, data security and privacy problems have attracted extensive interest. In an effort to overcome this challenge, this article aims to present a distributed privacy preservation approach based on smart contracts and Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). First of all, we define SGX as a trusted edge computing node, design data access module, data protection module, and data integrity check module, to achieve… More >

Yun Tan¹, Jiaohua Qin^{1, *}, Hao Tang², Xuyu Xiang¹, Ling Tan², Neal N. Xiong³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.3, pp. 1797-1817, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.010802

Abstract With the development of the internet of medical things (IoMT), the privacy protection problem has become more and more critical. In this paper, we propose a privacy protection scheme for medical images based on DenseNet and coverless steganography. For a given group of medical images of one patient, DenseNet is used to regroup the images based on feature similarity comparison. Then the mapping indexes can be constructed based on LBP feature and hash generation. After mapping the privacy information with the hash sequences, the corresponding mapped indexes of secret information will be packed together with the medical images group and… More >

Wenxi Han^{1, 2}, Mingzhi Cheng^{3, *}, Min Lei^{1, 2}, Hanwen Xu², Yu Yang^{1, 2}, Lei Qian⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.64, No.2, pp. 1025-1038, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.09815

Abstract In recent years, with the continuous advancement of the intelligent process of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), the problem of privacy leakage in IoV has become increasingly prominent. The research on the privacy protection of the IoV has become the focus of the society. This paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the existing location privacy protection system structure and algorithms, proposes a privacy protection system structure based on untrusted data collection server, and designs a vehicle location acquisition algorithm based on a local differential privacy and game model. The algorithm first meshes the road network space. Then, the dynamic… More >

Qin Liu¹, Tinghuai Ma^{1, 2, *}, Fan Xing¹, Yuan Tian³, Abdullah Al-Dhelaan³, Mohammed Al-Dhelaan³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.62, No.3, pp. 1143-1159, 2020, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.04949

Abstract Nowadays, the scale of the user’s personal social network (personal network, a network of the user and their friends, where the user we call “center user”) is becoming larger and more complex. It is difficult to find a suitable way to manage them automatically. In order to solve this problem, we propose an access control model for social network to protect the privacy of the central users, which achieves the access control accurately and automatically. Based on the hybrid friend circle detection algorithm, we consider the aspects of direct judgment, indirect trust judgment and malicious users, a set of multi-angle… More >

Pingshui Wang^1,*, Zecheng Wang¹, Qinjuan Ma¹

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 35-42, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2019.05942

Abstract The issue of privacy protection for mobile social networks is a frontier topic in the field of social network applications. The existing researches on user privacy protection in mobile social network mainly focus on privacy preserving data publishing and access control. There is little research on the association of user privacy information, so it is not easy to design personalized privacy protection strategy, but also increase the complexity of user privacy settings. Therefore, this paper concentrates on the association of user privacy information taking big data analysis tools, so as to provide data support for personalized privacy protection strategy design. More >

Liang Bai¹, Yuzhen Liu¹, Xiaoliang Wang^1,*, Nick Patterson², F. Jiang²

Journal of Information Hiding and Privacy Protection, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 1-10, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jihpp.2019.06043

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm involving intelligent sensor networks that incorporates embedded technology for collecting data, communicating with external environments. Recently, cloud computing together with fog computing has become an important research area of the Internet of Things because of big data processing capabilities. It is a promising technology that utilizes cloud or fog computing / architecture to improve sensor computing, storage, and communication capabilities. However, recently it has been shown that this computing/architecture may be vulnerable to various attacks because of the openness nature of the wireless network. Therefore, it becomes more and more important to… More >

Xingxing Xiao¹, Yang^1,*, Rui Li², Weiming Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.60, No.1, pp. 101-115, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05293

Abstract The medical industry develops rapidly as science and technology advance. People benefit from medical resource sharing, but suffer from privacy leaks at the same time. In order to protect patients’ privacy and improve quality of medical images, a novel reversible data hiding (RDH) scheme based on lesion extraction and with contrast enhancement is proposed. Furthermore, the proposed scheme can enhance the contrast of medial image's lesion area directly and embed high-capacity privacy data reversibly. Different from previous segmentation methods, this scheme first adopts distance regularized level set evolution (DRLSE) to extract lesion and targets at the lesion area accurately for… More >

Xiang Wang^{1, *}, Chen Xiong¹, Qingqi Pei¹, Youyang Qu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 107-121, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.03675

Abstract Most visual privacy protection methods only hide the identity information of the face images, but the expression, behavior and some other information, which are of great significant in the live broadcast and other scenarios, are also destroyed by the privacy protection process. To this end, this paper introduces a method to remove the identity information while preserving the expression information by performing multi-mode discriminant analysis on the images normalized with AAM algorithm. The face images are decomposed into mutually orthogonal subspaces corresponding to face attributes such as gender, race and expression, each of which owns related characteristic parameters. Then, the… More >

Meijuan Wang^1,2,*, Jian Wang¹, Lihong Guo^1,3, Lein Harn⁴

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 465-482, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02568

Abstract In the era of big data, the conflict between data mining and data privacy protection is increasing day by day. Traditional information security focuses on protecting the security of attribute values without semantic association. The data privacy of big data is mainly reflected in the effective use of data without exposing the user’s sensitive information. Considering the semantic association, reasonable security access for privacy protect is required. Semi-structured and self-descriptive XML (eXtensible Markup Language) has become a common form of data organization for database management in big data environments. Based on the semantic integration nature of XML data, this paper… More >