FakeBook: Detecting fake profiles in on-line social networks

Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1071-1078

  Conti, Mauro ^a   Poovendran, Radha ^b   Secchiero, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fake profiles; On line social network privacy

Indexed keywords

CYBERSPACES; FAKE PROFILES; IDENTITY THEFT; MALICIOUS ENTITY; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; POINT OF VIEWS; POLITICAL INFORMATION; PRIVACY THREATS; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER PRIVACY;

COMPUTER CRIME; DATA PRIVACY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874260034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2012.185     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Nielsen Online Report, "Social networks and blogs now 4th most popular online activity", http://tinyurl.com/cfzjlt, 2009.
2. Danah Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison, "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship", Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol. 13, no. 1-2, Nov. 2007.
3. The Guardian, "Twitter hoaxer comes clean and says: I did it to expose weak media", http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/30/ twitter-hoaxertommaso-de-benedetti?INTCMP=SRCH 2012.
4. The Washington Post, "Twitter hoaxer Tommaso De Benedetti comes clean", http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/twitter- hoaxertommaso-de-benedetti-comes-clean/2012/03/30/gIQARjYwlSblog.html 2012.
5. Salon.com, "The fake Facebook profile I could not get removed", http://www.salon.com/2011/02/02/myfakefacebookprofile/2012.
6. Stanley Roberts, "Fake Facebook Friends - People Behaving Badly", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX5J-16ptb8&feature=related 2012.
7. Leyla Bilge, Thorsten Strufe, Davide Balzarotti, and Engin Kirda, "All your contacts are belong to us: automated identity theft attacks on social networks", in Proceedings of the 18th WWW, 2009, pp. 551-560.
8. Lei Jin, Hassan Takabi, and James B.D. Joshi, "Towards active detection of identity clone attacks on online social networks", in Proceedings of the first ACM CODASPY, 2011, pp. 27-38.
9. Mauro Conti, Arbnor Hasani, and Bruno Crispo, "Virtual private social networks.", in Proceedings of the First ACM CODASPY, 2011, p. to appear.
10. Shah Mahmood and Yvo Desmedt, "Your facebook deactivated friend or a cloaked spy", in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on SESOC '12, 2012, p. to appear.
11. Georgios Kontaxis, Iasonas Polakis, Sotiris Ioannidis, and Evangelos P. Markatos, "Detecting social network profile cloning.", in Proceedings of PerCom Workshop, 2011, pp. 295-300.
12. Kahina Gani, Hakim Hacid, and Ryan Skraba, "Towards multiple identity detection in social networks", in Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web, 2012, pp. 503- 504.
13. William H. Hsu, Joseph Lancaster, S. R. Martin, and Paradesi T. Weninger, "Structural link analysis from user profiles and friends networks: A feature construction approach", in Proceedings of ICWSM, 2007, pp. 75-80.
14. William H. Hsu, Tim Weninger, and Martin S. R. Paradesi, "Predicting links and link change in friends networks: supervised time series learning with imbalanced data", in Proceedings of the 18th ANNIE, 2008, p. 12.
15. Nesreen K Ahmed, Fredrick Berchmans, Jennifer Neville, Ramana Kompella, and West Lafayette, "Time-based sampling of social network activity graphs", Analysis, pp. 1-9, 2010.
16. Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins, "Microscopic evolution of social networks", in Proceeding of the 14th ACM SIGKDD, 2008, pp. 462-470.
17. Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, and Andrew Tomkins, "Structure and evolution of online social networks", in Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD, 2006, pp. 611-617.
18. Shuang-Hong Yang, Bo Long, Alex Smola, Narayanan Sadagopan, Zhaohui Zheng, and Hongyuan Zha, "Like like alike: joint friendship and interest propagation in social networks", in Proceedings of the 20th WWW, 2011, pp. 537-546.
19. Sameer Patil, "Will you be my friend?: responses to friendship requests from strangers", in Proceedings of the 2012 iConference, 2012.