Security and privacy in social networks

"[This book] brings to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks, and is the first comprehensive attempt dedicated entirely to this field. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to mec...

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Other Authors: Altshuler, Yaniv., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Springer, ©2013.
New York, NY : [2013]
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Summary: "[This book] brings to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks, and is the first comprehensive attempt dedicated entirely to this field. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to mechanisms designed and deployed in existing online social networking services, the book aspires to create a common language between the researchers and practitioners of this new area- spanning from the theory of computational social sciences to conventional security and network engineering."--
Item Description: Introduction to Security and Privacy in Social Networks / Yuval Elovici and Yaniv Altshuler -- Interdisciplinary Impact Analysis of Privacy in Social Networks / Michael Netter, Sebastian Herbst and Günther Pernul -- Recognizing Your Digital Friends / Patrik Bichsel, Jan Camenisch and Mario Verdicchio -- Encryption for Peer-to-Peer Social Networks / Oleksandr Bodriagov and Sonja Buchegger -- Crowdsourcing and Ethics / The Employment of Crowdsourcing Workers for Tasks that Violate Privacy and Ethics / Christopher G. Harris and Padmini Srinivasan -- The Effect of Social Status on Decision-Making and Prices in Financial Networks / Yoel Krasny -- Stealing Reality: When Criminals Become Data Scientists (or Vice Versa) / Yaniv Altshuler, Nadav Aharony, Yuval Elovici, Alex Pentland and Manuel Cebrian -- Applications of k-Anonymity and ℓ-Diversity in Publishing Online Social Networks / Na Li and Sajal K. Das -- Links Reconstruction Attack / Using Link Prediction Algorithms to Compromise Social Networks Privacy / Michael Fire, Gilad Katz, Lior Rokach and Yuval Elovici -- An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System / Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan -- Privacy-Preserving Data Integration Using Decoupled Data / Hye-Chung Kum, Stanley Ahalt and Darshana Pathak.
Includes bibliographical references.
"[This book] brings to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks, and is the first comprehensive attempt dedicated entirely to this field. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to mechanisms designed and deployed in existing online social networking services, the book aspires to create a common language between the researchers and practitioners of this new area- spanning from the theory of computational social sciences to conventional security and network engineering."-- Unedited summary from book.
English.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
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