De-Anonymizing Social Network Users

March 8th, 2010 admin

Interesting paper: “A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users.” Abstract. Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interesting from a security and privacy point of view because they store large amounts of sensitive personal user data. In this paper, we introduce…


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