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PERCOM
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Inference attacks by third-party extensions to social network systems
—We study inference attacks that can be launched via the extension API of Facebook. We explain the threat of these attacks through a reduction to authentication attacks, devise a...
Seyed Hossein Ahmadinejad, Mohd M. Anwar, Philip W...
PERCOM
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
PoX: Protecting users from malicious Facebook applications
Abstract—Online social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut store large amounts of sensitive user data. While a user can legitimately assume that a social network provid...
Manuel Egele, Andreas Moser, Christopher Kruegel, ...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
In search of an anonymous and secure lookup: attacks on structured peer-to-peer anonymous communication systems
The ability to locate random relays is a key challenge for peer-to-peer (P2P) anonymous communication systems. Earlier attempts like Salsa and AP3 used distributed hash table look...
Qiyan Wang, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov
COMSNETS
2012
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12 years 8 days ago
Assessing the veracity of identity assertions via OSNs
Anonymity is one of the main virtues of the Internet, as it protects privacy and enables users to express opinions more freely. However, anonymity hinders the assessment of the ve...
Michael Sirivianos, Kyungbaek Kim, Jian Wei Gan, X...
ACSAC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Enabling Secure Secret Sharing in Distributed Online Social Networks
—We study a new application of threshold-based secret sharing in a distributed online social network (DOSN), where users need a means to back up and recover their private keys in...
Le-Hung Vu, Karl Aberer, Sonja Buchegger, Anwitama...