1.
|
Security Analysis of Malicious Socialbots on the Web
/ Yazan Boshmaf
[LERSSE-THESIS-2015-002]
The open nature of the Web, online social networks (OSNs) in particular, makes it possible to design socialbots—automation software that controls fake accounts in a target OSN, and has the ability to perform basic activities similar to those of real users. [...]
Published in Yazan Boshmaf, Security Analysis of Malicious Socialbots on the Web, PhD Dissertation, UBC, 2015:
Fulltext:  PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
2.
|
Integro: Leveraging Victim Prediction for Robust Fake Account Detection in OSNs
/ Yazan Boshmaf ; Dionysios Logothetis ; Georgos Siganos ; Jorge Leria ; et al
[LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2015-001]
Detecting fake accounts in online social networks (OSNs) protects OSN operators and their users from various malicious activities. [...]
Published in Boshmaf et al. "Integro: Leveraging Victim Prediction for Robust Fake Account Detection in OSNs" In proceedings the 2015 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'15), San Diego, USA.:
Fulltext: PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
3.
|
Integro: Leveraging Victim Prediction for Robust Fake Account Detection in OSNs
/ Yazan Boshmaf ; Dionysios Logothetis ; Georgos Siganos ; Jorge Leria ; et al
[LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2014-004]
Detecting fake accounts in online social networks (OSNs) protects OSN operators and their users from various malicious activities. [...]
Published in Boshmaf et al. "Integro: Leveraging Victim Prediction for Robust Fake Account Detection in OSNs" In proceedings the 2015 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'15), San Diego, USA.:
Fulltext: NDSS_260_Final - PDF PDF (PDFA); boshmaf_ndss_2015 - PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
4.
|
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.:
Fulltext: PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
5.
|
Towards Improving the Usability and Security of Web Single Sign-On Systems
/ San-Tsai Sun
[LERSSE-THESIS-2013-001]
OpenID and OAuth are open and lightweight web single sign-on (SSO) protocols that have been adopted by high-profile identity providers (IdPs), such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, and millions of relying party (RP) websites. [...]
Published in San-Tsai Sun, "Towards Improving the Usability and Security of Web Single Sign-On Systems," PhD dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, November, 2013, pp.216:
Fulltext: PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
6.
|
Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools
/ David Botta ; Rodrigo Werlinger ; André Gagné ; Konstantin Beznosov ; et al
[LERSSE-PRESENTATION-2007-062]
It is estimated that organizations worldwide will spend around $100 Billion USD on IT Security in 2007. [...]
Published in David Botta, Rodrigo Werlinger, André Gagné, Konstantin Beznosov, Sid Fels, Lee Iverson, Brian Fisher, "Towards Understanding IT Security Professionals and Their Tools," CIPS Vancouver Security SIG Meeting, Vancouver, 13 June, 2007, pp.20.:
Transfer from CDS 0.99.7: PDF;
|
7.
|
Towards understanding how users decide about friendship requests in Online Social Networks
/ Hootan Rashtian
[LERSSE-THESIS-2014-002]
Accepting friend requests from strangers in Facebook-like online social networks is known to be a risky behavior. [...]
Published in Hootan Rashtian, "Towards understanding how users decide about friendship requests in Online Social Networks," MASc Thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, June, 2014, pp.108:
Fulltext: PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
8.
|
To Befriend Or Not? A Model of Friend Request Acceptance on Facebook
/ Hootan Rashtian ; Yazan Boshmaf ; Pooya Jaferian ; Konstantin Beznosov
[LERSSE-RefConfPaper-2014-002]
Accepting friend requests from strangers in Facebook-like online social networks is known to be a risky behavior. [...]
Published in Rashtian, H., Boshmaf, Y., Jaferian, P., Beznosov, K. (2014, July). To Befriend Or Not? A Model of Friend Request Acceptance on Facebook. In Proceedings of the 10th symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. ACM.:
Fulltext: PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
9.
|
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.:
Fulltext: PDF PDF (PDFA);
|
10.
|
A Two-factor Authentication Mechanism Using Mobile Phones
/ Nima Kaviani ; Kirstie Hawkey ; Konstantin Beznosov
[LERSSE-REPORT-2008-027]
Mobile devices are becoming more pervasive and more advanced with respect to their processing power and memory size. [...]
Published in Nima Kaviani and Kirstie Hawkey and Konstantin Beznosov, "A Two-factor Authentication Mechanism Using Mobile Phones," Tech. Rep. LERSSE-TR-2008-03, Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering, University of British Columbia, August 2008:
Transfer from CDS 0.99.7: PDF;
|
guest ::