A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks

Recent years have seen continuous exposure of online social network (OSN) users to the security vulnerability due to socio-technical cyber hazards committed by OSN associates. Unfortunately, the current OSN platforms has lack of functionalities for automatic users protection in initiating online fri...

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Main Authors: Rahman, Md. Arafatur, Sadat, M. S. Nazmus, Asyhari, A. Taufiq, Refat, Nadia, M. Nomani, Kabir, Ruzaini, Abdullah Arshah
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author Rahman, Md. Arafatur
Sadat, M. S. Nazmus
Asyhari, A. Taufiq
Refat, Nadia
M. Nomani, Kabir
Ruzaini, Abdullah Arshah
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Sadat, M. S. Nazmus
Asyhari, A. Taufiq
Refat, Nadia
M. Nomani, Kabir
Ruzaini, Abdullah Arshah
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description Recent years have seen continuous exposure of online social network (OSN) users to the security vulnerability due to socio-technical cyber hazards committed by OSN associates. Unfortunately, the current OSN platforms has lack of functionalities for automatic users protection in initiating online friendship and online users interaction within their circle. Moreover, the users cannot analyze their associates’ time-varying and changing behavior, which is a strong indicator of malicious activities. To address this issue, this paper proposes a design of automatic two-phase pre- and post-filtering approach with the objective of mitigating the cyber threats in OSN platforms. In the pre-filtering phase, we propose an method where each user can access a reliable technique to select a friend after getting his/her details authenticity. In the post-filtering phase, a control mechanism is established to recognize malicious posts/actions of the associates in order to limit the spread of the corresponding cyber threats. Our empirical analysis shows some significant comparison data towards hybrid (combined pre- and post-filtering) method, where the users’ consents for our proposed method exceed significantly over the other competing techniques. In fact, the proportional mean value of the hybrid method is increased almost twice (2.03) of the existing methods.
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spelling ump-296342025-07-21T04:21:22Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/29634/ A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks Rahman, Md. Arafatur Sadat, M. S. Nazmus Asyhari, A. Taufiq Refat, Nadia M. Nomani, Kabir Ruzaini, Abdullah Arshah QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Recent years have seen continuous exposure of online social network (OSN) users to the security vulnerability due to socio-technical cyber hazards committed by OSN associates. Unfortunately, the current OSN platforms has lack of functionalities for automatic users protection in initiating online friendship and online users interaction within their circle. Moreover, the users cannot analyze their associates’ time-varying and changing behavior, which is a strong indicator of malicious activities. To address this issue, this paper proposes a design of automatic two-phase pre- and post-filtering approach with the objective of mitigating the cyber threats in OSN platforms. In the pre-filtering phase, we propose an method where each user can access a reliable technique to select a friend after getting his/her details authenticity. In the post-filtering phase, a control mechanism is established to recognize malicious posts/actions of the associates in order to limit the spread of the corresponding cyber threats. Our empirical analysis shows some significant comparison data towards hybrid (combined pre- and post-filtering) method, where the users’ consents for our proposed method exceed significantly over the other competing techniques. In fact, the proportional mean value of the hybrid method is increased almost twice (2.03) of the existing methods. IEEE 2020 Article PeerReviewed pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/29634/1/A%20Secure%20and%20Sustainable%20Framework%20to%20Mitigate%20Hazardous%20Activities.pdf Rahman, Md. Arafatur and Sadat, M. S. Nazmus and Asyhari, A. Taufiq and Refat, Nadia and M. Nomani, Kabir and Ruzaini, Abdullah Arshah (2020) A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 6 (1). ISSN 2377-3782. (In Press / Online First) (In Press / Online First) https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2019.2911188 https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2019.2911188
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Rahman, Md. Arafatur
Sadat, M. S. Nazmus
Asyhari, A. Taufiq
Refat, Nadia
M. Nomani, Kabir
Ruzaini, Abdullah Arshah
A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
title A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
title_full A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
title_fullStr A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
title_full_unstemmed A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
title_short A secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
title_sort secure and sustainable framework to mitigate hazardous activities in online social networks
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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