A Proxy-based Real-time Protection Mechanism for
Social Networking Sites
by Dwen Ren, Allen Chang, Sheng Chung, You Sheng
Presented by Omar Alzahrani
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Index:
 Facts about Social Network ?
 why should we worry about Social Network Security?
 Facebook website threats.
 Structures of Social Network.
 Facebook website structure.
 Paper’s propose.
 Real-Time Webpage Scanning Service.
 Protection Investigation: 1- Client side. 2- Official server side.
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 Social Network such as ?
and others !
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Facts about Facebook :
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In every 13 people on Earth is on Facebook.
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In 20 minutes :
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1,000,000 links are shared on Facebook.
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1,851,000 status updates are entered.
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1.972 million friend requests are accepted.
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1,587,000 wall posts are written.
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Average user is connected to 80 community pages, groups and events .
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It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google (at the moment).
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More than 650 million active users
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 why should we worry about Social Network Security?
 huge amount of unencrypted personal information.
 Personal information is displayed to public by default.
 privacy leads to security issue.
- example of privacy leads to security issue :
- Updates
Hi guys… the next weekend I am gonna travel to LA….. I am so excited
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 Facebook website threats.
1. Social Engineering.
2. Drive by Download.
3. Phishing.
4. Trojan.
5. Fake friendship invitation.
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 Structures of Social Network.
FBML: Facebook Markup Language
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 Paper’s propose.
A real-time website security protection mechanism based on the concept of
proxy.
So the proxy is to detect and determine the security threats of the website
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 Real-Time Webpage Scanning Service.
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 Protection Investigation:
1- Client side.
- Refer to personal privacy protection programs and solutions offered by
scholars such as Facebook.
- Make sure each other’s identity before adding to friend list.
- Avoid reveling too much personal information.
- Review fans groups and communities before join them.
- Carefully check every applications before installation.
2- Official server side.
- Use https or SSL for user login. This can prevent login information being intercepted
due to plain text transmission.
- Use secured channel to transmit data between servers.
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