Network Security

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2014-04-01
13:29
Thwarting fake accounts by predicting their victims / Yazan Boshmaf ; Dionysios Logothetis ; Georgos Siganos ; Matei Ripeanu ; et al [LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2014-001]
Traditional fake account detection systems employed by today's online social networks rely on either features extracted from user activities, or ranks computed from the underlying social graph. [...]
Published in Boshmaf et al. Thwarting fake accounts by predicting their victims. Invited talk at AAAI 2014 Spring Symposia, Social Hacking and Cognitive Security on the Internet and New Media, Stanford, CA, March, 2014.:
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2013-10-01
06:46
Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks / Konstantin Beznosov [LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2013-001]
Facebook has more monthly active users than almost any nation in the world. [...]
Published in Konstantin Beznosov, "Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks," Presentation, 2013, 81p.:
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2012-07-13
15:10
Design and Analysis of a Social Botnet / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-RefJnlPaper-2012-002]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of active users and have become an integral part of today's Web ecosystem. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu. Design and Analysis of a Social Botnet. Elsevier Journal of Computer Network - Special Issue on Botnets, 2012.:
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2012-04-28
17:56
Key Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2012-001]
The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that cyber criminals are willing to exploit. [...]
Published in Usenix 5th Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emerging Threats (LEET'12), San Jose, CA, USA.:
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2012-03-26
23:41
Key Challenges in Defending Against Malicious Socialbots / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2012-002]
The ease with which we adopt online personas and relationships has created a soft spot that cyber criminals are willing to exploit. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu. Key challenges in defending against malicious socialbots. In Proceedings of the 5th USENIX workshop on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats, LEET'12, Berkeley, CA, USA. USENIX Association.:
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2012-03-09
19:12
The Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible? / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-etc-2012-001]
In this invited piece at the ACM Interactions Magazine, we briefly describe our research into the use, impact, and implications of socialbots on Facebook..
Published in Article by Tim Hwang, Ian Pearce, and Max Nanis. Socialbots: voices from the fronts. In ACM Interactions 19, 2 (March 2012). Piece by Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu. The Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible?:
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2012-02-27
14:10
The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-REPORT-2012-001]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of active users and have become an integral part of today's Web ecosystem. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'11), December 2011:
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2011-09-27
02:52
Automated Social Engineering Attacks in OSNs / Yazan Boshmaf ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2011-003]
In this presentation, we outline the latest automated social engineering attacks in Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Facebook [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. Automated social engineering attacks in OSNs. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Ottawa), May 2010:
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2011-09-27
02:17
[POSTER] The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [LERSSE-POSTER-2011-002]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In the Poster Session of the 20th USENIX Conference on Security (SEC'11), August 2011.:
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2011-09-27
01:07
The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money / Yazan Boshmaf ; Ildar Muslukhov ; Konstantin Beznosov ; Matei Ripeanu [258] [LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2011-008]
Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today's Web. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, and Matei Ripeanu. The socialbot network: when bots socialize for fame and money. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'11), December 2011. For the technical report, please refer to http://lersse-dl.ece.ubc.ca/record/272:
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