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Protecting User Privacy: An Approach for Untraceable Web Browsing History and Unambiguous User Profiles
Ghazaleh Beigi, Ruocheng Guo, Alexander Nou +2
The overturning of the Internet Privacy Rules by the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) in late March 2017 allows Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to collect, share and sell…
Securing Social Media User Data - An Adversarial Approach
Ghazaleh Beigi, Kai Shu, Yanchao Zhang +1
Social media users generate tremendous amounts of data. To better serve users, it is required to share the user-related data among researchers, advertisers and application develope…
The Rise of Social Botnets: Attacks and Countermeasures
Jinxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang +1
Online social networks (OSNs) are increasingly threatened by social bots which are software-controlled OSN accounts that mimic human users with malicious intentions. A social botne…
TrueTop: A Sybil-Resilient System for User Influence Measurement on Twitter
Jinxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, Jingchao Sun +2
Influential users have great potential for accelerating information dissemination and acquisition on Twitter. How to measure the influence of Twitter users has attracted significan…
SecureFind: Secure and Privacy-Preserving Object Finding via Mobile Crowdsourcing
Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Xiaocong Jin +1
The plummeting cost of Bluetooth tags and the ubiquity of mobile devices are revolutionizing the traditional lost-and-found service. This paper presents SecureFind, a secure and pr…
Your Actions Tell Where You Are: Uncovering Twitter Users in a Metropolitan Area
Jinxue Zhang, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang +1
Twitter is an extremely popular social networking platform. Most Twitter users do not disclose their locations due to privacy concerns. Although inferring the location of an indivi…
TouchIn: Sightless Two-factor Authentication on Multi-touch Mobile Devices
Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Jinxue Zhang +1
Mobile authentication is indispensable for preventing unauthorized access to multi-touch mobile devices. Existing mobile authentication techniques are often cumbersome to use and a…