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Malicious intelligent algorithms greatly threaten the security of social users' privacy by detecting and analyzing the uploaded photos to social network platforms. The destruction to DNNs brought by the adversarial attack sparks the…

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In this paper, we propose a mechanism to deal with dishonest opinions in recommendation-based trust models, at both the collection and processing levels. We consider a scenario in which an agent requests recommendations from multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Omar Abdel Wahab , Jamal Bentahar , Robin Cohen , Hadi Otrok , Azzam Mourad

In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become immensely popular as social interaction services among worldwide Internet users. OSNs facilitate Third-party applications (TPAs) which provide many additional functionalities to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Nemi Chandra Rathore , Somanath Tripathy

Compromising legitimate accounts is a way of disseminating malicious content to a large user base in Online Social Networks (OSNs). Since the accounts cause lots of damages to the user and consequently to other users on OSNs, early…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Forough Farazmanesh , Fateme Foroutan , Amir Jalaly Bidgoly

Characterizing large online social networks (OSNs) through node querying is a challenging task. OSNs often impose severe constraints on the query rate, hence limiting the sample size to a small fraction of the total network. Various ad-hoc…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Pinghui Wang , Bruno Ribeiro , Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan

Sybil attacks pose a significant security threat to blockchain ecosystems, particularly in token airdrop events. This paper proposes a novel sybil address identification method based on subgraph feature extraction lightGBM. The method first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Qiangqiang Liu , Qian Huang , Frank Fan , Haishan Wu , Xueyan Tang

Due to the proliferation of online social networks (OSNs), users find themselves participating in multiple OSNs. These users leave their activity traces as they maintain friendships and interact with other users in these OSNs. In this work,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Ee-Peng Lim

Online Social Network (OSN) is one of the hottest innovations in the past years, and the active users are more than a billion. For OSN, users' behavior is one of the important factors to study. This demonstration proposal presents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Rui Guo , Hongzhi Wang , Lucheng Zhong , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

We characterize the advantage of using a robot's neighborhood to find and eliminate adversarial robots in the presence of a Sybil attack. We show that by leveraging the opinions of its neighbors on the trustworthiness of transmitted data,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Matthew Cavorsi , Stephanie Gil

Privacy scoring aims at measuring the privacy violation risk of a user over an online social network (OSN). Existing work in the field rely on possibly biased or emotional survey data and focus only on personel purpose OSNs like Facebook.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yasir Kilic

Active re-identification attacks pose a serious threat to privacy-preserving social graph publication. Active attackers create fake accounts to build structural patterns in social graphs which can be used to re-identify legitimate users on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Ema Këpuska , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

Online social networks (OSNs) are trendy and rapid information propagation medium on the web where millions of new connections either positive such as acquaintance or negative such as animosity, are being established every day around the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Mudasir Ahmad Wani , Suraiya Jabin

Understanding user behaviors on social media has garnered significant scholarly attention, enhancing our comprehension of how virtual platforms impact society and empowering decision-makers. Simulating social media behaviors provides a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ziyue Lin , Yi Shan , Lin Gao , Xinghua Jia , Siming Chen

Cyberbullying continues to grow in prevalence and its impact is felt by thousands worldwide. This study seeks a network science perspective on cyberbullying interaction patterns on the popular photo and video-sharing platform, Instagram.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Satyaki Sikdar , Manuel Sandoval , Taylor Hales , Chloe Kilroy , Maddie Juarez , Tyler Rosario , Juan J. Rosendo , Deborah L. Hall , Yasin N. Silva

Lateral movement attacks are a serious threat to enterprise security. In these attacks, an attacker compromises a trusted user account to get a foothold into the enterprise network and uses it to attack other trusted users, increasingly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Pin-Yu Chen , Sutanay Choudhury , Luke Rodriguez , Alfred Hero , Indrajit Ray

Automatic response forecasting for news media plays a crucial role in enabling content producers to efficiently predict the impact of news releases and prevent unexpected negative outcomes such as social conflict and moral injury. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Chenkai Sun , Jinning Li , Yi R. Fung , Hou Pong Chan , Tarek Abdelzaher , ChengXiang Zhai , Heng Ji

Most previous works in privacy of Online Social Networks (OSN) focus on a restricted scenario of using one type of information to infer another type of information or using only static profile data such as username, profile picture or home…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Tahleen Rahman , Mario Fritz , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Influence diffusion and influence maximization in large-scale online social networks (OSNs) have been extensively studied, because of their impacts on enabling effective online viral marketing. Existing studies focus on social networks with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Yanhua Li , Wei Chen , Yajun Wang , Zhi-Li Zhang

We describe a method to produce a network where current methods such as DeepFool have great difficulty producing adversarial samples. Our construction suggests some insights into how deep networks work. We provide a reasonable analyses that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Jiajun Lu , Theerasit Issaranon , David Forsyth

Web3Recommend is a decentralized Social Recommender System implementation that enables Web3 Platforms on Android to generate recommendations that balance trust and relevance. Generating recommendations in decentralized networks is a…

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