This book collates the key security and privacy concerns faced by individuals and organizations who use various social networking sites. This includes activities such as connecting with friends, colleagues, and family; sharing and posting information; managing audio, video, and photos; and all other aspects of using social media sites both professionally and personally. In the setting of the Internet of Things (IoT) that can connect millions of devices at any one time, the security of such actions is paramount. Securing Social Networks in Cyberspace discusses user privacy and trust, location privacy, protecting children, managing multimedia content, cyberbullying, and much more. Current state-of-the-art defense mechanisms that can bring long-term solutions to tackling these threats are considered in the book.
This book can be used as a reference for an easy understanding of complex cybersecurity issues in social networking platforms and services. It is beneficial for academicians and graduate-level researchers. General readers may find it beneficial in protecting their social-media-related profiles.
Part I: Protection of Personal Information in Social Networks
1. User Awareness for Securing Social Networks
Abhijit Bhowmik, S. M. Raihan Gafur, Abrar Rafid, Saiful Azad, Mufti Mahmud, and M. Shamim Kaiser
2. Privacy-Preserving Analytics for Social Network Data: A Survey of Currently Prevalent Tools
Rishabh Jindal, Ahmed Falah, Adnan Anwar, and Mohiuddin Ahmed
3. Enabling Location k-Anonymity in Social Networks
Francesco Buccafurri, Vincenzo De Angelis, Maria Francesca Idone, and Cecilia Labrini
Part II: Securing Multimedia Contents
4. Automated Content Classification in Social Media Platforms
Thomas M. Chen
5. Steganographic Botnet C&C Channel Using Twitter
Nicholas Pantic and Mohammad Husain
6. A Deep Learning-Based Model for an Efficient Hate-Speech Detection in Twitter
P. R. Vishnu, Basant Agarwal, P. Vinod, K. A. Dhanya, and Alice Baroni
Part III: Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking, and Related Issues
7. Cyberbullying and Cyberstalking on Online Social Networks
Umit Can and Bilal Alatas
8. Cyberbullying Severity Detection Using Deep Learning Techniques – A Multi-Class Classification over Varied Class Balance Data
Sharyar Wani, Khan Nasik Sami, Zian Md Afique Amin, and Yonis Gulzar
9. Cyberbullying among Neurodiverse Learners during Online Teaching and Learning amidst COVID-19
Mohammad Shadab Khan, Sharyar Wani, and Eima Fatima
Part IV: Other Issues for Securing Social Networks and Online Profiles
10. Profiling Online Users: Emerging Approaches and Challenges
Mohammad Mamun, Muhammad Al-Digeil, and Sherif Saad Ahmed
11. Securing Mobile Social Networks
Robert Gordon
12. Protecting Regular and Social Network Users in a Wireless Network by Detecting Rogue Access Point: Limitations and Countermeasures
Md. Tanvir Hasan, Md. Redwan Hossain, and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
13. A Tutorial on Cross-Site Scripting Attack – Defense against Online Social Networks
Vassilis Papaspirou, Leandros Maglaras, and Mohamed Amine Ferrag
Biography
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, he is with the Independent University, Bangladesh as an Adjunct Professor. He received PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 2009 from Kyung Hee University, South Korea and B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh in 2003. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, network security, cloud computing, and e-services technologies. Currently he is also working on some multidisciplinary issues.
