Social Media Information Security Threats: Anthropomorphic Emoji Analysis on Social Engineering

Njenga, Kennedy

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6454-8_24

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“…When embedded in text, emoji sometimes simply replace a word, but more often they provide new information which was not contained in the text alone [1], [29]. Emoji can be used as a supplemental modality to clarify the intended sense of an ambiguous message [35], attach sentiment to a message [37], or subvert the original meaning of the text entirely in ways a word could not [12], [30]. Emoji carry meaning on their own, and possess compositionality allowing (00:08.33) (00: 16.67) (00:25.00) (00:33.33) (00:41.67) Entire Video A.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

Cappallo

Svetlichnaya

Garrigues

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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Over the past decade, emoji have emerged as a new and widespread form of digital communication, spanning diverse social networks and spoken languages. We propose to treat these ideograms as a new modality in their own right, distinct in their semantic structure from both the text in which they are often embedded as well as the images which they resemble. As a new modality, emoji present rich novel possibilities for representation and interaction. In this paper, we explore the challenges that arise naturally from considering the emoji modality through the lens of multimedia research. Specifically, the ways in which emoji can be related to other common modalities such as text and images. To do so, we first present a large scale dataset of real-world emoji usage collected from Twitter. This dataset contains examples of both text-emoji and image-emoji relationships. We present baseline results on the challenge of predicting emoji from both text and images, using state-of-the-art neural networks. Further, we offer a first consideration into the problem of how to account for new, unseen emoji -a relevant issue as the emoji vocabulary continues to expand on a yearly basis. Finally, we present results for multimedia retrieval using emoji as queries.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

Cappallo

Svetlichnaya

Garrigues

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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“…Subsequently, it was concluded that the game has positively impacted players' understanding of social engineering attacks. In an another interesting study, 17 Njenga, tries to explore the effectiveness of using emoji in chat, SMS, or email in social engineering attacks. Researchers of this study performed a controlled experiment on students.…”

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Contemplating social engineering studies and attack scenarios: A review study

Yasin

Fatima

Liu

et al. 2019

Security and Privacy

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The previous year has seen an enormous increase in the studies related to social engineering. This increase is partly due to increasing number of social engineering attacks and partly due to people's inability to identify the attack. Thus, it is of great importance to find solutions which are helpful for human to understand the social engineering attacks and scenarios. To address this, we have performed a literature review of studies (on social engineering) in top-notch journals and conferences. In this paper, we have enlisted the types of attacks, and the persuasion techniques used by social engineers as listed in the literature. We also combined different theories which researchers tried to use to explain various activities of social engineers. Furthermore, we have mentioned that a better understanding of the social engineering attack scenarios can be done using thematic and game-based analysis techniques.Preliminary empirical evaluation of the proposed game based method shows overall neutral results. Future extension and evaluation is needed for the proposed methods. K E Y W O R D Scybercrime, cyber-security, human factors, human-centered, information security, review, social engineering

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“…The results show that the most commonly cited rationale for not adopting social media was related to (security issues) (42%). Security concerns have been reported in different studies related to social media use and are a main concern among different adopters of social media services [9][10][11]. Close behind this, the second-highest percentage (39%) selected (technical challenges).…”

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“…The previous driving forces have been related to the case of KSA governmental entities. However, different driving forces can be outlined for adopting social media services within governmental entities, as some driving forces are similar to the ones defined in this study, as all depend on the intentions of use, position, and sensitivity of services and operations [5,9].…”

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Investigating Social Media Utilization and Challenges in the Governmental Sector for Crisis Events

Afandi¹

2019

IJACSA

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The use and utilization of social media applications, tools, and services enables advanced services in daily routines, activities, and work environments. Nowadays, disconnection from social media services is a disadvantage due to their increasing use and functionality. The use of social media applications and services has provided different methods and routines for communications that ranges from posting, reposting, commenting, interacting, and live communication that can reach a mass population with minimum time, effort, and expenses compared with traditional media systems and channels. The current benefits of using social media can assist in providing better services in terms of communication and guidance for civil protection services within governmental sectors, as reported by different research studies. The use of social media has been found to be critically important by governmental agencies in different situations for directing, educating, and engaging people during different events. This study investigates the use of social media services in Saudi Arabia in governmental sectors to outline the opportunities and challenges faced, given the challenging situations faced annually during the Hajj and Ramadan rituals, and sporadic flood crisis events. This research focuses on defining the current stand and challenges of using social media services for providing mass communication and civil engagement during hazardous and challenging events in Saudi Arabia. The results of this study will be used as a roadmap for future investigation in this regard.

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Social Media Information Security Threats: Anthropomorphic Emoji Analysis on Social Engineering

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

New Modality: Emoji Challenges in Prediction, Anticipation, and Retrieval

Contemplating social engineering studies and attack scenarios: A review study

Investigating Social Media Utilization and Challenges in the Governmental Sector for Crisis Events

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