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You are Who You Know and How You Behave: Attribute Inference Attacks via Users' Social Friends and Behaviors
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Bin Liu
We propose new privacy attacks to infer attributes (e.g., locations, occupations, and interests) of online social network users. Our attacks leverage seemingly innocent user inform…
SybilFrame: A Defense-in-Depth Framework for Structure-Based Sybil Detection
Peng Gao, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Sanjeev Kulkarni +2
Sybil attacks are becoming increasingly widespread, and pose a significant threat to online social systems; a single adversary can inject multiple colluding identities in the syste…
Reciprocal versus Parasocial Relationships in Online Social Networks
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu
Many online social networks are fundamentally directed, i.e., they consist of both reciprocal edges (i.e., edges that have already been linked back) and parasocial edges (i.e., edg…
Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu, Ling Huang +4
Understanding social network structure and evolution has important implications for many aspects of network and system design including provisioning, bootstrapping trust and reputa…
Jointly Predicting Links and Inferring Attributes using a Social-Attribute Network (SAN)
Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Ameet Talwalkar, Lester Mackey +6
The effects of social influence and homophily suggest that both network structure and node attribute information should inform the tasks of link prediction and node attribute infer…