Publications by Rameez Rahman | EPFL Graph Search

Optimizing Information Leakage in Multicloud Storage Services

Many schemes have been recently advanced for storing data on multiple clouds. Distributing data over multiple cloud storage providers automatically provides users with a certain degree of information leakage control, for no single point of attack can leak ...

2016

Data-Driven Privacy Indicators

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman

Third party applications work on top of existing platforms that host users’ data. Although these apps access this data to provide users with specific services, they can also use it for monetization or profiling purposes. In practice, there is a significant ...

2016

The Curious Case of the PDF Converter that Likes Mozart: Dissecting and Mitigating the Privacy Risk of Personal Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman, Bojan Karlas

Third party apps that work on top of personal cloud services such as Google Drive and Dropbox, require access to the user’s data in order to provide some functionality. Through detailed analysis of a hundred popular Google Drive apps from Google’s Chrome s ...

2016

Data Summarization with Social Contexts

Karl Aberer, Tian Guo, Rameez Rahman, Hao Zhuang, Xia Hu

While social data is being widely used in various applications such as sentiment analysis and trend prediction, its sheer size also presents great challenges for storing, sharing and processing such data. These challenges can be addressed by data summariza ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

C3P: Context-Aware Crowdsourced Cloud Privacy

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman

Due to the abundance of attractive services available on the cloud, people are placing an increasing amount of their data online on different cloud platforms. However, given the recent large-scale attacks on users data, privacy has become an important issu ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Decentralizing the Cloud: How Can Small Data Centers Cooperate?

Karl Aberer, Rameez Rahman, Hao Zhuang

Cloud computing has become pervasive due to attractive features such as on-demand resource provisioning and elasticity. Most cloud providers are centralized entities that employ massive data centers. However, in recent times, due to increasing concerns abo ...

Ieee2014