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.

Autore Pugliese

• Ianigro Massimo

Tutti gli autori

• L. Caviglione; M. Podolski; W. Mazurczyk; M. Ianigro

Titolo volume/Rivista

IEEE transactions on industrial informatics

Anno di pubblicazione

2017

ISSN

1941-0050

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