Abstract:Due to open and anonymous nature, online social networks are particularly vulnerable to Sybil attack, where a malicious user can fabricate many dummy identities to target systems. Recently, there are a flurry of interests to leverage social network structure for Sybil defense. The rationale behind these approaches is to partition the whole social graph into honest and Sybil regions based on two core assumptions: (1) strong trust relationship among nodes, which makes it difficult for Sybil nodes to establish su… Show more
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