Online social networks (OSNs) are popular collaboration and communication tools for millions of users and their friends. Unfortunately, in the wrong hands, they are also effective...
Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Ya...
As the popularity of the social media increases, as evidenced in Twitter, Facebook and China’s Renren, spamming activities also picked up in numbers and variety. On social netwo...
Yin Zhu, Xiao Wang, ErHeng Zhong, Nathan Nan Liu, ...
Worms propagating in online social networking (OSN) websites have become a major security threat to both the websites and their users in recent years. Since these worms exhibit un...
A new genetic algorithm to detect communities in social networks is presented. The algorithm uses a fitness function able to identify groups of nodes in the network having dense ...
Abstract. Online recommender systems are a common target of attack. Existing research has focused on automated manipulation of recommender systems through the creation of shill acc...