Privacy Threats Related to User Profiling in Online Social Networks

Erlandsson, Fredrik; Boldt, Martin; Johnson, Henric

doi:10.1109/socialcom-passat.2012.16

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Profiling users is a practical solution that has been established. Several studies in the literature have successfully established solutions based on Facebook user profiling for the purpose of managing relationships between users (e.g., [127][128][129][130]), predicting users' privacy behaviors or threats (e.g., [131,132]), classifying users' relationships (e.g., [133]), and detecting similarity between contents, topics, or writing styles (e.g., [134]). Looking at the identified peripheral cues that have been explored in this study, we can see that they are even more measurable and useful than those variables used in previous profiling mechanisms.…”

Section: Implication For Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

What Message Characteristics Make Social Engineering Successful on Facebook: The Role of Central Route, Peripheral Route, and Perceived Risk

Algarni¹

2019

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Past research suggests that the human ability to detect social engineering deception is very limited, and it is even more limited in the virtual environment of social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook. At the organizational level, research suggests that social engineers could succeed even among those organizations that identify themselves as being aware of social engineering techniques. This may be partly due to the complexity of human behaviors in failing to recognize social engineering tricks in SNSs. Due to the vital role that persuasion and perception play on users’ decision to accept or reject social engineering tricks, this paper aims to investigate the impact of message characteristics on users’ susceptibility to social engineering victimization on Facebook. In doing so, we investigate the role of the central route of persuasion, peripheral route of persuasion, and perceived risk on susceptibility to social engineering on Facebook. In addition, we investigate the mediation effects between the explored factors, and whether there is any relationship between the effectiveness of them and users’ demographics.

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Section: Implication For Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

What Message Characteristics Make Social Engineering Successful on Facebook: The Role of Central Route, Peripheral Route, and Perceived Risk

Algarni¹

2019

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“…Once he/she has become friends with the person he can easily retrieve the sensitive information pertaining to the restricted group. Attacks that can be conducted due to this vulnerability is information leakage, phishing attack or the spam attack [17].…”

Section: Informational Retrieval Threatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks: A Survey

Satyanarayana¹,

Sood²,

Tao³

et al. 2014

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligen

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The Online Social Networks (OSN) open a new vista serving millions of users and have reshaped the way people interacts. Unfortunately these networks are an emerging platform for cybercrimes such as sending malicious URLs, spams, etc. which causes a huge financial loss and social damage. In this paper, it is reviewed that OSN is a new cybercrime platform for threating agents because of the security pit falls in the existing centralised architecture and their driven functionalities. This article surveys the detailed analysis of the current state of the Online Social Networks in perspective of security and privacy issues. Additionally in this paper we presents various types of attacks that can be mounted via OSN and the defence measures against each of the attack. This literature also highlights on the types of vulnerabilities and threats in OSN. Significant threat categories and risks associated as well as a scope to circumventing these threats and vulnerabilities are also introduced.

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“…Issues about security and privacy of user data is a cause of major concern in online social network API development as discussed in [19]. In our current implementation, we consider the related issues and our API only fetches public data.…”

Section: Security Issues and Implementation Challengesmentioning

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SIN: A Platform to Make Interactions in Social Networks Accessible

Nia

Erlandsson

Bhattacharyya

et al. 2012

2012 International Conference on Social Informatics

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Abstract-Online Social Networks (OSNs) are popular platforms for interaction, communication and collaboration between friends. In this paper we develop and present a new platform to make interactions in OSNs accessible. Most of today's social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ provide support for third party applications to use their social network graph and content. Such applications are strongly dependent on the set of software tools and libraries provided by the OSNs for their own development and growth. For example, third party companies like CNN provide recommendation materials based on user interactions and user's relationship graph. One of the limitations with this graph (or APIs) is the segregation from the shared content. We believe, and present in this paper, that the content shared and the actions taken on the content, creates a Social Interaction Network (SIN). As such, we extend Facebook's current API in order to allow applications to retrieve a weighted graph instead of Facebooks unweighted graph. Finally, we evaluate the proposed platform based on completeness and speed of the crawled results from selected community pages. We also give a few example uses of our API on how it can be used by third party applications.

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Privacy Threats Related to User Profiling in Online Social Networks

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

What Message Characteristics Make Social Engineering Successful on Facebook: The Role of Central Route, Peripheral Route, and Perceived Risk

What Message Characteristics Make Social Engineering Successful on Facebook: The Role of Central Route, Peripheral Route, and Perceived Risk

Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks: A Survey

SIN: A Platform to Make Interactions in Social Networks Accessible

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