Feasibility of attacks on hidden web databases by partially informed external attackers
Saurav Bhattacharya · International Journal of Global Innovations and Solutions (IJGIS) · 2024
This report explains how some partially informed attacker can estimate aggregate statistics of an unknown set of objects embedded in the Euclidean plane using available partial data, a nearest-neighbor oracle. The algorithm presented employs Voronoi Partitioning of the set space, where each object contained in the set is associated with some geo-location parameters. Next, real-world usage of the algorithm Estimate SUM is illustrated along with corresponding performance metric results. Some alternatives have been suggested to make the work of the attacker difficult.