Security and privacy in social networks /

Security and privacy in social networks / Yaniv Altshuler ... [editors] - New York : Springer, c.2013. - vi, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to security and privacy in social networks / Yuval Elovici and Yaniv Altshuler -- Interdisciplinary impact analysis of privacy in social networks / Michael Netter, Sebastian Herbst, and Gunther Pernul -- Recognizing your digital friends / Patrik Bichsel, Jan Camenisch, and Mario Verdicchio -- Encryption for peer-to-peer social networks / Oleksandr Bodriagov and Sonja Buchegger -- Crowdsourcing and ethics: the employment of crowdsourcing workers for tasks that violate privacy and ethics / Christopher G. Harris and Padmini Srinivasan -- The effect of social status on decision-making and prices in financial networks / Yoel Krasny -- Stealing reality: when criminals become data scientists (or vice versa) / Yaniv Altshuler ... [et al.] -- Applications of k-anonymity and l-diversity in publishing online social networks / Na Li and Sajal K. Das -- Link reconstruction attack: using link prediction algorithms to compromise social networks privacy / Michael Fire ... [et al.] -- An analysis of anonymity in the Bitcoin system / Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan -- Privacy-preserving data integration using decoupled data / Hye-Chung Kum, Stanley Ahalt, and Darshana Pathak.

"This book: Presents innovative solutions to social network security challenges ; Defines a new field of research in computer and communications security ; Raises emerging security problems in online social network environments."--Publisher's website.

9781461441380


Online social networks--Security measures.
Data encryption (Computer science)
Data protection.
Computer crimes--Prevention.





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