Table Of ContentSecuring Social Networks in
Cyberspace
Securing Social
Networks in
Cyberspace
Edited by
Al- Sakib Khan Pathan
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Contents
Preface ...............................................................................................................................................ix
Acknowledgment ..............................................................................................................................xi
Editor ...............................................................................................................................................xiii
Contributors .....................................................................................................................................xv
PART I Protection of Personal Information in Social Networks
Chapter 1 User Awareness for Securing Social Networks ............................................................3
Abhijit Bhowmik, S. M. Raihan Gafur, Abrar Rafid, Saiful Azad, Mufti Mahmud,
and M. Shamim Kaiser
Chapter 2 Privacy-Preserving Analytics for Social Network Data: A Survey of Currently
Prevalent Tools ...........................................................................................................17
Rishabh Jindal, Ahmed Falah, Adnan Anwar, and Mohiuddin Ahmed
Chapter 3 Enabling Location k- Anonymity in Social Networks ................................................35
Francesco Buccafurri, Vincenzo De Angelis, Maria Francesca Idone,
and Cecilia Labrini
Part II Securing Multimedia Contents
Chapter 4 Automated Content Classification in Social Media Platforms ...................................53
Thomas M. Chen
Chapter 5 Steganographic Botnet C&C Channel Using Twitter .................................................73
Nicholas Pantic and Mohammad Husain
Chapter 6 A Deep Learning- Based Model for an Efficient Hate-S peech
Detection in Twitter ..................................................................................................123
P. R. Vishnu, Basant Agarwal, P. Vinod, K. A. Dhanya, and Alice Baroni
Part III Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking, and Related Issues
Chapter 7 Cyberbullying and Cyberstalking on Online Social Networks ................................141
Umit Can and Bilal Alatas
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Chapter 8 Cyberbullying Severity Detection Using Deep Learning
Techniques: A Multi- Class Classification over Varied Class Balance Data .............163
Sharyar Wani, Khan Nasik Sami, Zian Md Afique Amin, and Yonis Gulzar
Chapter 9 Cyberbullying among Neurodiverse Learners during Online Teaching
and Learning amidst COVID- 19 ..............................................................................195
Mohammad Shadab Khan, Sharyar Wani, and Eima Fatima
Part IV Other Issues for Securing Social Networks
and Online Profiles
Chapter 10 Profiling Online Users: Emerging Approaches and Challenges ...............................221
Mohammad Mamun, Muhammad Al- Digeil, and Sherif Saad Ahmed
Chapter 11 Securing Mobile Social Networks ............................................................................241
Robert Gordon
Chapter 12 Protecting Regular and Social Network Users in a Wireless Network
by Detecting Rogue Access Point: Limitations and Countermeasures ....................255
Md. Tanvir Hasan, Md. Redwan Hossain, and Al- Sakib Khan Pathan
Chapter 13 A Tutorial on Cross- Site Scripting Attack: Defense against
Online Social Networks ............................................................................................277
Vassilis Papaspirou, Leandros Maglaras, and Mohamed Amine Ferrag
Index ..............................................................................................................................................297
Preface
Today’s world is unimaginable without online social networks. Nowadays, millions of people con-
nect with their friends and families by sharing their personal information with the help of different
forms of social media. Using social media is often more convenient than meeting with one another
in person but sometimes individuals face different types of issues while maintaining the multimedia
contents. For instance, managing audios, videos, photos could be complicated because it is difficult
to maintain the security and privacy of these multimedia contents uploaded on a daily basis and
often, without enough care of privacy. Simple video can provide a lot of information about a person,
about his/her food habit, surroundings, home setting, products used, etc. In fact, sometimes even
personal or sensitive information could get viral if that leaks out unintentionally. Any leaked content
can be shared and made a topic of popular talk all over the world within few seconds with the help
of the social networking sites. In the setting of Internet of Things (IoT) that is supposed to connect
millions of devices, such contents could be shared from anywhere anytime.
Considering such a setting, this book aimed to collate the key security and privacy concerns faced
by individuals and organizations who use various social networking sites differently for different
reasons. Current state- of- the- art defense mechanisms that can bring somewhat long- term solutions
to tackling these threats, were also be considered.
As the call for chapters were disseminated, we got a great response from the authors, based all
around the globe. After a rigorous selection process, we could accept and include a total of 13 chap-
ters in this book. A total of 40 authors represent at least 12 countries: Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh,
Canada, Greece, India, Italy, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UK, and USA. This shows the diver-
sity of geographical locations for the contributors to this book.
The book has four parts, and each part has similarly themed chapters. The first three parts contain
three chapters each and the last one contains four chapters. The parts are labeled as follows:
Part I: Protection of Personal Information in Social Networks
Part II: Securing Multimedia Contents
Part III: Cyberbullying, Cyberstalking, and Related Issues
Part IV: Other Issues for Securing Social Networks and Online Profiles
Each chapter is written in a way that should be easily accessible to the general readers as well as to
the experts working in this domain. We hope that the chapters would provide a sufficient amount of
beneficial information for research works for the graduate students at the PhD and master’s levels,
for the academics, researchers in the laboratories, and the people related to the industry.
Al- Sakib Khan Pathan
Independent University, Bangladesh
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