2009 Eighth International Conference on Networks Social Networks as an Attack Platform: Facebook Case Study Gosier, Guadeloupe, France March 01-March 06 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3552-4
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICN.2009.77
In this paper it is described how can a social network, like Facebook, be exploited and converted into an attack platform, in order to gain some sensitive data, which can complete a perfect attacking profile against a user. More specifically, we created a Facebook application for demonstration purposes that on the surface is a simple application, but on the background it collects useful data, making it easy to attack against the user with malicious programs, showing the risks that these platforms can expose their users to.
Index Terms:
Social networks, security, user profiling
Citation:
Constantinos Patsakis, Alexandros Asthenidis, Abraham Chatzidimitriou, "Social Networks as an Attack Platform: Facebook Case Study," icn, pp.245-247, 2009 Eighth International Conference on Networks, 2009 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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