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| Dato | Valore |
|---|---|
| Title | Covert Channels in Personal Cloud Storage Services: the case of Dropbox |
| Abstract | Personal storage services are one of the most popular applications based on the cloud computing paradigm. Therefore, the analysis of possible privacy and security issues has been a relevant part of the research agenda. However, threats arising from the adoption of information hiding techniques have been mainly neglected. In this perspective, the paper investigates how personal cloud storage services can be used for building covert channels to stealthy exchange information through the Internet. To have a realistic use-case, we consider the Dropbox application and we present the performance evaluation of two different covert communication methods. To understand the stealthiness of our approach and propose countermeasures, we also investigate some behaviors of Dropbox in a production quality deployment. |
| Source | IEEE transactions on industrial informatics (Online) 13 (4), pp. 1921–1931 |
| Keywords | cloud storagesteganographyinformation hidingcovert channels |
| Journal | IEEE transactions on industrial informatics (Online) |
| Editor | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,, Piscataway, NJ, Stati Uniti d'America |
| Year | 2017 |
| Type | Articolo in rivista |
| DOI | 10.1109/TII.2016.2627503 |
| Authors | L. Caviglione, M. Podolski, W. Mazurczyk, M. Ianigro |
| Text | 370502 2017 10.1109/TII.2016.2627503 Scopus 2 s2.0 85029686257 ISI Web of Science WOS 000406933400043 cloud storage steganography information hiding covert channels Covert Channels in Personal Cloud Storage Services the case of Dropbox L. Caviglione, M. Podolski, W. Mazurczyk, M. Ianigro Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l Automazione, Warsaw Institute of Technology Personal storage services are one of the most popular applications based on the cloud computing paradigm. Therefore, the analysis of possible privacy and security issues has been a relevant part of the research agenda. However, threats arising from the adoption of information hiding techniques have been mainly neglected. In this perspective, the paper investigates how personal cloud storage services can be used for building covert channels to stealthy exchange information through the Internet. To have a realistic use case, we consider the Dropbox application and we present the performance evaluation of two different covert communication methods. To understand the stealthiness of our approach and propose countermeasures, we also investigate some behaviors of Dropbox in a production quality deployment. 13 Published version Covert Channels in Personal Cloud Storage Services The Case of Dropbox Published version 07739943 2.pdf Covert Channels in Personal Cloud Storage Services The Case of Dropbox Preprint Covert_Channels_in_Personal_Cloud_Storage_Services_the_case_of_Dropbox.pdf Articolo in rivista Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1941 0050 IEEE transactions on industrial informatics Online IEEE transactions on industrial informatics Online IEEE trans. industr. inform. Online IEEE transactions on industrial informatics Online Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers transactions on industrial informatics Online Transactions on industrial informatics Online luca.caviglione CAVIGLIONE LUCA massimo.ianigro IANIGRO MASSIMO |