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A survey of security vulnerabilities in social networking media: the case of facebook

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Elizabeth Fokes,

Lei LiAuthors Info & Claims

RIIT '14: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Research in information technology

Pages 57 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/2656434.2656444

Published: 13 October 2014 Publication History

Abstract

This paper conducted a survey study on the security vulnerabilities in one of most popular social networking site, Facebook. We divide the vulnerabilities into two main categories: platform-related and user-related. For each vulnerability, we present its origin, description and remedy if there is any. Our work not only increases users' awareness of those vulnerabilities, but also provides a comprehensive view to the researchers who are interested in improving security measures of social media services.

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Alqubaiti ZLi LHe JBoisvert DZilora S(2016)The Paradox of Social Media SecurityProceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology10.1145/2978178.2978187(29-34)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978178.2978187
Li LQian K(2016)Using Real-Time Fear Appeals to Improve Social Media Security2016 IEEE 40th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.217(610-611)Online publication date: Jun-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.217

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A survey of security vulnerabilities in social networking media: the case of facebook
1. General and reference
  1. Document types
    1. Surveys and overviews

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RIIT '14: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Research in information technology

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DOI:10.1145/2656434

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Alqubaiti ZLi LHe JBoisvert DZilora S(2016)The Paradox of Social Media SecurityProceedings of the 5th Annual Conference on Research in Information Technology10.1145/2978178.2978187(29-34)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2978178.2978187
Li LQian K(2016)Using Real-Time Fear Appeals to Improve Social Media Security2016 IEEE 40th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.217(610-611)Online publication date: Jun-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2016.217

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