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Can social influence be exploited to compromise security: An online experimental evaluation
Soumajyoti Sarkar, Paulo Shakarian, Mika Armenta +2
Social media has enabled users and organizations to obtain information about technology usage like software usage and even security feature usage. However, on the dark side it has…
Mining user interaction patterns in the darkweb to predict enterprise cyber incidents
Soumajyoti Sarkar, Mohammad Almukaynizi, Jana Shakarian +1
With rise in security breaches over the past few years, there has been an increasing need to mine insights from social media platforms to raise alerts of possible attacks in an att…
Use of a controlled experiment and computational models to measure the impact of sequential peer exposures on decision making
Soumajyoti Sarkar, Ashkan Aleali, Paulo Shakarian +3
It is widely believed that one's peers influence product adoption behaviors. This relationship has been linked to the number of signals a decision-maker receives in a social networ…
Detecting Pathogenic Social Media Accounts without Content or Network Structure
Elham Shaabani, Ruocheng Guo, Paulo Shakarian
The spread of harmful mis-information in social media is a pressing problem. We refer accounts that have the capability of spreading such information to viral proportions as "Patho…
An End-to-End Framework to Identify Pathogenic Social Media Accounts on Twitter
Elham Shaabani, Ashkan Sadeghi-Mobarakeh, Hamidreza Alvari +1
Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporter accounts and fake news writers have the capability of spreading disinformation to viral proportions. Early detect…
Understanding Information Flow in Cascades Using Network Motifs
Soumajyoti Sarkar, Hamidreza Alvari, Paulo Shakarian
A growing set of applications consider the process of network formation by using subgraphs as a tool for generating the network topology. One of the pressing research challenges is…