Advanced social engineering attacks

K Krombholz, H Hobel, M Huber, E Weippl - Journal of Information Security …, 2015 - Elsevier
… This enables us to make predictions about a victim's ability to detect a social … Considering
that many smartphone applications are highly vulnerable and can leak sensitive information, …

De-anonymizing social networks

A Narayanan, V Shmatikov - 2009 30th IEEE symposium on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… If we sample a k-clique uniformly, it is susceptible to anomalies in the graph that make …
prediction, which will result in plausible fake edges. Instead of choosing a specific link prediction

Sybillimit: A near-optimal social network defense against sybil attacks

H Yu, PB Gibbons, M Kaminsky… - 2008 IEEE Symposium …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Decentralized distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems are particularly vulnerable
… [42] leverages a key insight on social networks to bound the number of sybil nodes accepted. …

Determining influential users in internet social networks

M Trusov, AV Bodapati… - Journal of marketing …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… : susceptibility to influence from other users and the extent of influence on others in the …
We assess how well the model predicts whether a certain friend is influential. The prediction

Social network thresholds in the diffusion of innovations

TW Valente - Social networks, 1996 - Elsevier
individual’s personal network, the threshold is the exposuresocial system as the key
dependent variable to be predicted … how individuals act with respect to their personal network (…

Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

ADI Kramer, JE Guillory… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… data for social networks generally (7, 8); and (iii) people’s emotional expressions on Facebook
predict … This tested whether exposure to emotions led people to change their own posting …

Does incidental exposure on social media equalize or reinforce participatory gaps? Evidence from a panel study

R Heiss, J Matthes - New Media & Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… A successful replication would speak for the predictive validity of our incidental exposure
Furthermore, we use negative binomial regressions to predict high-effort participation because …

Network effects and personal influences: The diffusion of an online social network

Z Katona, PP Zubcsek… - Journal of marketing …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
… the technical problems, social networking received national media exposure, resulting in both
… Here, we demonstrate how our models can help predict which individuals will adopt in the …

Selective exposure in the age of social media: Endorsements trump partisan source affiliation when selecting news online

S Messing, SJ Westwood - Communication research, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… or popularity cues, the bandwagon heuristic predicts a tendency for individuals to (a) assume
that the support of others is likely to predict personal relevance and utility (Sundar & Nass, …

Narcissism and social networking web sites

LE Buffardi, WK Campbell - Personality and social …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
predicted (a) higher levels of social activity in the online community and (b) more self-promoting
content in several aspects of the social networking … and therefore susceptible to positive …