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Privacy Concerns Surrounding Personal Information Sharing on Health and Fitness Mobile Apps
The process of masking information so that only authorized parties may view the true message or information.
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Case Study: Under Armour Hack
Kylie Torres (Grand Valley State University, USA), Andrew Stevenson (Davenport University, USA), and Justin Hicks (Grand Rapids Press, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3487-8.ch006
Abstract
Under Armour purchased a fitness app, MyFitnessPal, that suffered a data breach shortly after Under Armour acquired the app. This breach made customers usernames, emails, and passwords available and for sale on the dark web. Under Armour informed its users of the breach and handled the crisis in the way they saw fit. During the investigation, it was found that Under Armour used a weaker encryption algorithm than it should have to encrypt customers' sensitive information. The company is currently in a lawsuit over the breach with one MyFitnessPal user.
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Auditing Defense against XSS Worms in Online Social Network-Based Web Applications
It is used for security purpose in which a text is converted in to unreadable format by using some cryptographic technique.
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Global Wannacrypt Ransomware Attack: Tackling the Threat of Virtual Marauders
The process of converting information or data into a code to prevent unauthorized access.
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A Taxonomy of Online Game Security
A procedure that renders the contents of a message or file unintelligible to anyone not authorized to read it.
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Biometric Authentication for Cloud Computing
A process of encoding messages or data into a form, called a cipher text, which cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.
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An Overview of Wireless Network Concepts
To convert plain text or data into unreadable form by means of a reversible mathematical computation.
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A Review on Chaos-Based Image Encryption Using Fractal Function
Encryption is process of converting a plain text to cipher text.
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Data Security Issues and Solutions in Cloud Computing
The process of encoding a message into a form so that it can only be read by an authorized party is known as encryption. Encryption algorithms can be classified into two categories, Symmetric key encryption and Asymmetric key encryption. In symmetric key encryption same key is used for encryption as well as decryption. This type of encryption algorithms incur less computational cost but sharing of the key is the major problem. In Asymmetric key encryption, two keys are used: private key and public key. Public key is known to every sender. When a sender wants to send data to the receiver, the data will be encrypted using public key of the receiver. On receiving the encrypted data, the receiver will decrypt it using his private key.
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Deep Learning-Based Understanding of the Complex Patterns of Cyber Attacks
It is the process of transforming the data into a secure format.
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Designing an Effective Information Security Policy for Public Organizations: ISO 27001 as a Success Framework
The action of changing the information by using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone.
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Storage Infrastructure for Big Data and Cloud
It is the process of encoding messages (or information) in such a way that eavesdroppers or hackers cannot read it, but that authorized parties can.
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A Survey of Security and Privacy Protection in Mobile Devices
A method for securing data at rest or in transit by modifying the data using generated keys and later decrypting it using the same or pair key.
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Role of Privacy and Trust in Mobile Business Social Networks
is the transformation of plaintext into an apparently less readable form (called cipher text) through a mathematical process. The cipher text may be read by anyone who has the key that decrypts (undoes the encryption of) the cipher text.
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Digital Rights Management for Untrusted Peer-to-Peer Networks
Deals with the transformation of content into an unreadable form by using well-known algorithms based on some confidential information (i.e., a key).
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Authentication and Error Resilience in Images Transmitted through Open Environment
The translation of data into a secret code. Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security.
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Cryptocurrency: A Detailed Study
Encryption is the process of changing data to a form that cannot be recognised or “encrypted.”
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Secure Chaotic Image Encryption Based on Multi-Point Row-Column-Crossover Operation
Readable data into unreadable form. It is the process of converting data into unreadable form so that unauthorized users cannot read or understand it.
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An Analysis of Privacy Language in the Scholarly Literature on Mental Health Apps
A coding system that protects information by translating it into a second language or set of symbols to keep it secret. This process is typically automated by algorithms.
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Big Data Security: Challenges, Recommendations and Solutions
Encryption relies on the use of encryption algorithms to transform data into encrypted forms. The purpose is to make them unreadable to those who do not possess the encryption key(s).
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ICTs and Sexual Exploitation of Children in Europe
The process of encoding a message or information in such a way that only authorized parties can access it.
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Challenges in FPGA Technology Paradigm for the Implementation of IoT Applications
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Medical Data Analytics in the Cloud Using Homomorphic Encryption
Encoding the contents of a message such that only authorized parties can access the message.
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Citizen Data in Distributed Computing Environments: Privacy and Protection Mechanisms
Encryption is the process that converts the data or information into a form of code that is unreadable, to prevent it from unauthorised usage. There are a number of encryption models and algorithms which are prevalent in the Internet world.
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A Maturity Model for Understanding and Evaluating Digital Money
Encryption algorithms are mathematical calculations used for cryptography. This technology uses cryptographic keys for both encryption of plaintext and decryption of cipher-text. The keys can be the identical (symmetric) or different (asymmetric). There may be a simple transformation to go from one key to the other.
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Blockchain With the Internet of Things for Secure Healthcare Service Using Lightweight Cryptography
An algorithm with the aim of scrambling messages prior to storage or transmission to make them unintelligible to eavesdroppers. Other terms used for encryption include enciphering and encoding.
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Biometric Template Security and Biometric Encryption Using Fuzzy Frameworks
The process of mapping a plain text to an incomprehensible cipher-text format, used for security purposes.
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Particle Swarm Optimization-Based Session Key Generation for Wireless Communication (PSOSKG)
In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it.
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Information Security Policy in Large Public Organizations: A Case Study Through ISO 27002
The action of changing the information by using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone.
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Cloud Security: Challenges, Solutions, and Future Directions: Navigating the Complexities of securing Cloud
The process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access.
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Towards Predicting the Life of an Engine: A Deep Learning Approach
It is the process of transforming the data into a secure format.
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BDS: Browser Dependent XSS Sanitizer
It is a technique of mapping a readable text to non-readable text form in order to protect the privacy of an information.
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Organizational Password Policy
The process of converting data contained in a message into a secret code prior to transmission via public telecommunication channels to make the content incomprehensible to all but authorized recipient(s).
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Biosignal and Image Processing in Telemedicine
Encryption is a method of protecting digital data by using one or more mathematical procedures in conjunction with a password or “key” that is used to decode the information. The encryption process converts information into a form that cannot be read by humans using an algorithm that renders the original information unreadable.
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Trust and Privacy in Grid Resource Auctions
To alter data using a secret code so that it is unidentifiable to unauthorized parties. Authorized parties can use a code to decrypt the data to it’s original form.
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Cloud Cryptography
The process of converting the original text into an alternate form (code) to prevent unauthorised access.
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Evaluation of E-Government Web Sites
Encryption involves any procedure used for converting plaintext into cipher text (encrypted message) in order to prevent any but the intended recipient from reading the data. It may then be carried, for example, by secure sockets layer (SSL), a protocol that uses a secure hypertext transmission method designed to provide encrypted communications on the Internet.
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Threats and Vulnerabilities of Mobile Applications
Process of encoding the information in a different format that can be understood only to authorized persons.
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A Survey on Chaos Based Encryption Technique
Encryption is process of converting a plain text to cipher text.
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Data Hiding Schemes Based on Singular Value Decomposition
The process of encoding messages (or information) in such a way that third parties cannot read it, but only authorized parties can. Encryption doesn't prevent hacking but it prevents the hacker from reading the data that is encrypted.
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Development of a University Networking Project
A process of converting the information in a not readable format, by using a reversible algorithm. By using decryption, the information becomes readable again.
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Virtual Private Networks
Also known as encoding; a mathematical process that disguises the content of messages transmitted.
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Blockchain Primer: Introduction to Blockchain Foundations and Implementation
The process of converting normal text (plaintext) into unrecognizable random sequences of bit (ciphertext).
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Multimedia Encryption
A process to transform plain data into unrecognizable forms, under the control of a secret encryption key. The counterpart of encryption is decryption, which requires also a secret decryption key.
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Telepsychiatry Within European E-Health
Is the process of transforming information to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing a special key. Encryption has long been used by militaries and governments to facilitate secret communication. Encryption is now used in protecting information within ?many kinds of civilian systems, such as computers, networks, mobile telephones, and bank automatic teller machines.
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Studying Individualized Transit Indicators Using a New Low-Cost Information System
The process of encoding messages (or information) in such a way that only authorized parties can read it.
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Agent-Facilitated Virtual Marketplace for Airline Ticketing
The act of protection information by transforming it into an unreadable format, called cipher text. Only those who possess a secret key can decipher (or decrypt) the message into plain text.
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Cryptography and Blockchain Solutions for Security Protection of Internet of Things Applications
An algorithm with the aim of scrambling messages prior to storage or transmission to make them unintelligible to eavesdroppers. Other terms used for encryption include enciphering and encoding.
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Building and Management of Trust in Networked Information Systems
The transformation of plaintext into an apparently less readable form (called cipher text) through a mathematical process. The cipher text may be read by anyone who has the key that decrypts (undoes the encryption of) the cipher text.
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Misuse of Information Technologies and Reliability of Information in New Media during Emergencies
The encoding of digital content, such as text messages or documents, in order to make them impossible to be read by those who do not have the means of decoding the content.
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E-Accounting: Future Challenges and Perspectives
Encrypting a message or electronic transmission to prevent unauthorized access.
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Privacy, Trust, and Business Ethics for Mobile Business Social Networks
The transformation of plaintext into an apparently less readable form (called cipher text) through a mathematical process. The cipher text may be read by anyone who has the key that decrypts (undoes the encryption of) the cipher text.
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Blockchain-Based Secure Transactions
The process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access.
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Status and Future Trends of Multimedia Interactivity on the Web
A combination of key length, key exchange mechanism, rate of key exchange, and key generation. Popular encryptions are Kerberos, Data Encryption Standard (DES), and Rivest, Shamir, and Adelmaen (RSA) Data security (Powell, 2002).
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Digital Terrorism Attack: Types, Effects, and Prevention
It is the process of converting plain text to cipher text that makes it harder for the hacker to figure out.
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Regulating the Internet
A form of cryptography that protects data from being viewed without a decryption key.
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Road Map to Information Security Management
It is the process to encrypt the message and make it unreadable without special knowledge. Encryption is to protect the public communication network such as Internet.
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IT Security Investment Decision by New Zealand Owner-Managers
The process of encoding business files and documents to allow only authorized parties to access.
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Security and Privacy on Personalized Multi-Agent System
The conversion of the original data (plaintext) into a form called a scrambled data (ciphertext) through the use of a cryptographic algorithm for the purpose of security or privacy.
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Future Challenges of Marketing Online-to-Offline (O2O)
is the process of transforming information using an algorithm so that it cannot be read by everyone except those who have a particular identification, usually referred to as a key.
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Securing Financial Inclusiveness Adoption of Blockchain FinTech Compliance
Is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Only authorized parties can decipher a ciphertext back to plaintext and access the original information. Encryption does not itself prevent interference but denies the intelligible content to a would-be interceptor. For technical reasons, an encryption scheme usually uses a pseudo-random encryption key generated by an algorithm. It is possible to decrypt the message without possessing the key, but, for a well-designed encryption scheme, considerable computational resources and skills are required. An authorized recipient can easily decrypt the message with the key provided by the originator to recipients but not to unauthorized users. Historically, various forms of encryption have been used to aid in cryptography. Early encryption techniques were often utilized in military messaging. Since then, new techniques have emerged and become commonplace in all areas of modern computing. Modern encryption schemes utilize the concepts of public-key and symmetric-key. Modern encryption techniques ensure security because modern computers are inefficient at cracking the encryption.
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