FACEBOOK SECURITY AND PRIVACY: CYBER IDENTITY THEFT,CYBERSQUATING AND

SPAMMING BALOGUN ABIODUN KAMORU (GS44360)

PhD Information SystemsSupervisory committee/Advisor

Pm Dr. Azmi bin Jaafar/ Pm Dr. Marzanah Jabar.

Introduction ABSTRACT• Social engineering of Online Social networks sites focusing on Facebook environ.

I intend to explore the Facebook problem on spamming, identity theft and cyber squatting. There is a broad consensus regarding the online social networks especially Facebook. Studies from literature have shown the usefulness and application of online social networks. Despite this, research shows that they are still lapses on privacy and security issues like identity theft, cyber squatting and spamming (what you did?).

• Facebook have many users globally, the significance and important reason to embark on this research problem is to make the Facebook a safer environ to its users. The real reason to take up this challenging issues of online social networks especially on Facebook is to create a viable and secured environs for the users, service providers, stakeholders and IT professional, why they have to be security and privacy conscious while surfing on online social networks especially Facebook. (Why you did it).

Introduction (cont’d)• Previous attempts and studies in Online social networks especially Facebook have

used Model Virtual World Security Threat Matrix(STM ) have been very limited. This paper proposes a rigorous model technique to measure the rate at which spamming,identity theft affect the Facebook, a way forward to improve the security and privacy especially on spamming and cybersquatting and cyber identity theft. Two different approaches will be employed, firstly the Literature view of Online social networks especially Facebook for comparative analysis, secondly the quantitative approach technique will be used, Questionaire will be administer and the respondent will be able to access and sent back respectively.(How you did it?)

• This study usher a new era towards online social networks sites especially Facebook, why the body of literature on information system with emphasis on privacy and security with core leading emphasis on cyber squatting,spamming and cyber identity theft. The results of the experiment and the statistical/empirical tests supplemented by the actual figure and test of the research method use.(what is found?).

Research Problem• Problem of spamming on Facebook• Problem of Cyber identity and Cyber

squatting.• Problem associated with other Social

networks site like Twitter, Tagged etc

Purpose of study• To develop a third party application (Footlight application)that will

help Facebook users to secure their privacy and security on identity theft.

• To produce a guideline from Facebook user online from user design perspective and trend of the new design in information systems.

• To contribute to increasing awareness about privacy and security problems in online social networks especially facebook.

• To determine the the potential security threat pose to the online users.

• To analysis the security and privacy preference set by the service provider.

• To develop and mitigate anti spamming tools specifically for facebook environ.

Research Questions• How can we protect our social online networks free from

spamming and identity theft especially Facebook?• In what way can I categories or evaluate the level of spam

and identity theft? Is rate of privacy sensitivity is higher?• How good is anti spamming? And how to detect identity

theft on Facebook?• Why has the Facebook not take exclusive solution in solving

the problem? Why the previous solution not working?• What exactly the spamming issue and how does it relate to

security and Privacy?

Literature Review

• Social technologies never have predictable and absolute positive or negative effects, which is why social scientists dread questions like these. In considering the effects of social network sites, it is clear that there are many challenges to work through -- the increasing commercialization of this space, the need to construct strong privacy protections for users, and safety issues -- but I believe the benefits we receive as a society provided by these tools far outweigh the risks.” (Ellison, 2008).

Literature review

• The evaluation of the Internet to its current phase commonly known as Web 2.0 has brought more opportunities as well as challenges for social application. One of the major opportunities is the wide availability of new online applications commonly described as Social Media and particular new online networking environments known as online Social Networking Sites (Constantinides, at al., 2010)

• Facebook security and privacy issue

Litearture Map Review for Facebook security and privacy

.Privacy

.Confidentiality

.Payment

.Authentication

.Intellectual Property theft

.Multiple identity

.Vandalism

.Defamation

.Transaction Integrity

Privacy issue of facebook.Leitch & Warren 2007

Security issue of facebook.Alan Oxley,2013

A phishidddng thbabyboy123reatgd

Security issue challenging facebook. Lee & Warren 2007.

Facebook security issue: Spamming,Cyber identity theft and Cyber squating

A phishing threat/Multiple identity. Nalin Asanka,2014. D.York,2013

Cyber identity theft Spamming Cyber squatting

Electronic theft,S.Saxby 2013

Multiple identity management.D.Millen 2007

Malwares,Kaspersky 2013

Ransomeware/Spyware.Mcafee,2013

massive cyber attack.J.Gilles 2011

Phishing/Spoofing. D.York,2012

Correlation of the Literature Map Review of Facebook Security and Privacy Issues: Spamming

Facebook Security and Privacy issue: Spamming

Problem

Effect of Spamming

Cyber identity theft Cyber squatting

Electronic identity,Grossman 2010

Multiple identity theft, Dimicco,Mille

n,2007

Ransomeware/

Espionage,Steve

Saxby,2013

Economic loss/Cyberwar

e,M.Potts 2013

Blocking of spamming

Eliminate cyber identity theft and cyber squatting by blocking spamming

Intellectual Property

theft,Leitch 2010.

Facebook identity

theft,C.Yao 2013.

Privacy and security issue of facebook,Leitch & Warren 2007

Espionage/Political

Vandetta,D.York 2012

Stealing of vital

information

Cyber bullying,J.Giles,2

011

DefamationLee and Warren,2007

Vandalism,Lee and Warren,2007

Eliminate Cyber identity and Cybersquatting by Blocking Spamming

Conclusion• From our finding and research , the research will

benefit the users of the Facebook, it will lead us to the solution to dangerous threat pose by using Facebook and other Online social networks, It will benefit the stakeholders,policy makers and decision makers on privacy and security issues. It will also leads to the review of data protection act. It will make the Facebook more secure and Viable for the million users around the world.

Research Method

• Quantitative Method will be used• Empirical method/Survey method• Previous attempts and studies in Online social networks especially Facebook have

used Model Virtual World Security Threat Matrix(STM ) have been very limited. • Data Set:

– New data set of 250 respondence– Collection strategy: Questionnaire – Place: universities in Malaysia– Age of the participant: 18 and Above.

• The hypothesis will be verified/tested using Questionnaires through survey• SPSS will be used as statistical Tool to process the data and visualize the output

(Table, Bar chart).

Significance study• The Internet has indeed revolutionized the way we think, act

and do things, since the advent of social networks and its Application, there has being an increasing and demand for users and developers to come to a common ground and that is designing and implementing a privacy features.

• The study has significance on the field of information system and to make our online social network more secured, the study is made to have effects on facebook and other online social networks

• Generally, it is significant to privacy advocates, security and internet professional, Internet service provider, Government agencies and research academy.

Project Schedule

Project Schedule

Project schedule

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