Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems
Summary: Investigates unintended data remnants in database systems—tables, logs, and indexes—and finds deleted data persists with little user control. Proposes transparency criteria and practical secure-deletion techniques to bound retention and hinder forensic analysis. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Patrick Stahlberg (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 2. Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 3. Brian Neil Levine (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{stahlberg_sigmod07,
title = {{Threats to Privacy in the Forensic Analysis of Database Systems}},
author = {Stahlberg, Patrick and Miklau, Gerome and Levine, Brian Neil},
series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247492},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247492},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,116 | Securing history: Privacy and accountability in database systems | 2007 | CIDR | 5.601767e-05 |
| 12,105 | DF-Toolkit: Interacting with Low-Level Database Storage | 2020 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,263 | Database Forensic Analysis with DBCarver | 2017 | CIDR | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,750 | Building Disclosure Risk Aware Query Optimizers for Relational Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | The Design Of Postgres | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00049142315 |
| 4,397 | Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering | 2006 | SIGMOD | 6.6154201e-05 |
| 5,063 | Tamper Detection in Audit Logs | 2004 | VLDB | 6.2908508e-05 |
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