Websites are increasingly presenting content and services that are not created and managed by the publisher’s website administrators themselves, but are provided by other third-parties. While third-party content and services provide value and utility to the site visitors, this comes at the cost of visitor information being shared with the third-parties. Thus, information is shared not just with...

Protecting confidential information from improper disclosure is a fundamental security goal, made more challenging due to the practical difficulty of preventing all leakage of secret information. For instance, a login program that rejects an incorrect password unavoidably reveals that the secret password differs from the one that was entered. One promising way to address information leakage is ...

Cryptographic techniques for reasoning about information leakage have recently been brought to bear on the classical problem of statistical disclosure control – revealing accurate statistics about a population while preserving the privacy of individuals. This new perspective has been invaluable in guiding the development of a powerful approach to private data analysis, founded on precise mathem...

Many organizational and environmental factors affect the information disclosure and the quality of its presentation; organizational culture is the most important factor among these factors. The organizational culture that is based on transparency will provide the information environment dynamism and it will also lead to the improvement of the quality of information disclosure by the business un...

background and purpose: respecting confidentiality of documents and medical information about individuals, as one of the most important issues in medicine, guarantees patients' trust in the health system. therefore, this study is an attemp to design a valid and reliable tool to assess knowledge and attitudes of medical students about  the principles of  confidentiality and disclosure of patient...

Dishonest employees, who have privileges to obtain corporate critical information and access internal resources, cause the problem of internal leakage. Employees, who have such privileges and know from where to obtain corporate sensitive information, are far more dangerous than outsiders. This paper proposes a mechanism for protecting information inside organisations against unauthorised disclo...