Today, there is a fundamental imbalance in cybersecurity. While attackers act more and more globally and coordinated, e.g., by using botnets, their counterparts trying to manage and defend networks are limited to examine local information only. Collaboration across network boundaries would substantially strengthen network defense by enabling collaborative intrusion and anomaly detection. Also, ...

We study Differential Privacy in the abstract setting of Probability on metric spaces. Numerical, categorical and functional data can be handled in a uniform manner in this setting. We demonstrate how mechanisms based on data sanitisation and those that rely on adding noise to query responses fit within this framework. We prove that once the sanitisation is differentially private, then so is th...

0020-0255/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2013.06.042 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Departament d’Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili., Av., Països Catalans, 2 Tarragona, Spain. Tel.: +34 977 559657; fax: +34 977 559710. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Sánchez). David Sánchez ⇑, Montserrat Ba...

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE L ast month, Part 1 of this article discussed some proven applications of chlorine dioxide (CD) gas and solutions as cleaning/sterilizing agents for isolators, process vessels, filter membranes, water systems, hard surfaces, and cleanrooms. Potential applications were also described, including the production of sterilized water from USP-grade water; sanitization of chromatog...

Chicken anemia virus is commonly found in commercially produced chickens and has a worldwide distribution. It is difficult to inactivate thermally or with common disinfectants, which limits the utility of normal sanitization practices. The virus is important because of the disease it produces following transovarian transmission and because of its potential for inducing immunosuppression alone o...

Practical, effective methods that could be implemented in a food service establishment (restaurant or delicatessen) for the surface sanitization of cantaloupes were microbiologically evaluated. Cantaloupes (Cucumis melo L. var. reticulates) were immersed in an inoculum containing Salmonella enterica serovar Poona or Pantoea agglomerans at ca. 10(4) to 10(5) CFU/ml. An efficient method for the r...

With the advent of internet, large numbers of text documents are published and shared every day . Each of these documents is a collection of vast amount of information. Publically sharing of some of this information may affect the privacy of the document, if they are confidential information. So before document publishing, sanitization operations are performed on the document for preserving the...