Today, the use of social networks is growing ceaselessly and rapidly. More alarming is the
fact that these networks have become a substantial pool for unstructured data that belong to …

Abstract Big Data Analytics (BDA) is increasingly becoming a trending practice that
generates an enormous amount of data and provides a new opportunity that is helpful in …

Social media have been growing rapidly and become essential elements of many people's
lives. Meanwhile, social media have also come to be a popular source for identity deception …

Fake followers are those Twitter accounts specifically created to inflate the number of
followers of a target account. Fake followers are dangerous for the social platform and …

Microblogs are increasingly exploited for predicting prices and traded volumes of stocks in
financial markets. However, it has been demonstrated that much of the content shared in …

Predictive analysis of social media data has attracted considerable attention from the
research community as well as the business world because of the essential and actionable …

Research suggests that social engineering attacks pose a significant security risk, with
social networking sites (SNSs) being the most common source of these attacks. Recent …

Abstract LinkedIn, with over 1.5 million Groups, has become a popular place for business
employees to create private groups to exchange information and communicate. Recent …

In this position paper we present the challenge of detecting abuse in a modern Online Social
Network (OSN) while balancing data utility and privacy, with the goal of limiting the amount …

Online social network analysis has attracted great attention with a vast number of users
sharing information and availability of APIs that help to crawl online social network data. In …