Stopping the Cyberattack in the Early Stage: Assessing the Security Risks of Social Network Users
Joint Authors
Feng, Bo
Li, Qiang
Ji, Yuede
Guo, Dong
Meng, Xiangyu
Source
Security and Communication Networks
Issue
Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-14, 14 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2019-07-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
14
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
Online social networks have become an essential part of our daily life.
While we are enjoying the benefits from the social networks, we are inevitably exposed to the security threats, especially the serious Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attack.
The attackers can launch targeted cyberattacks on a user by analyzing its personal information and social behaviors.
Due to the wide variety of social engineering techniques and undetectable zero-day exploits being used by attackers, the detection techniques of intrusion are increasingly difficult.
Motivated by the fact that the attackers usually penetrate the social network to either propagate malwares or collect sensitive information, we propose a method to assess the security risk of the user being attacked so that we can take defensive measures such as security education, training, and awareness before users are attacked.
In this paper, we propose a novel user analysis model to find potential victims by analyzing a large number of users’ personal information and social behaviors in social networks.
For each user, we extract three kinds of features, i.e., statistical features, social-graph features, and semantic features.
These features will become the input of our user analysis model, and the security risk score will be calculated.
The users with high security risk score will be alarmed so that the risk of being attacked can be reduced.
We have implemented an effective user analysis model and evaluated it on a real-world dataset collected from a social network, namely, Sina Weibo (Weibo).
The results show that our model can effectively assess the risk of users’ activities in social networks with a high area under the ROC curve of 0.9607.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Feng, Bo& Li, Qiang& Ji, Yuede& Guo, Dong& Meng, Xiangyu. 2019. Stopping the Cyberattack in the Early Stage: Assessing the Security Risks of Social Network Users. Security and Communication Networks،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210356
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Feng, Bo…[et al.]. Stopping the Cyberattack in the Early Stage: Assessing the Security Risks of Social Network Users. Security and Communication Networks No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210356
American Medical Association (AMA)
Feng, Bo& Li, Qiang& Ji, Yuede& Guo, Dong& Meng, Xiangyu. Stopping the Cyberattack in the Early Stage: Assessing the Security Risks of Social Network Users. Security and Communication Networks. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-14.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1210356
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1210356