Title :
Virus Propagation Modeling in Facebook
Author :
Fan, W. ; Yeung, K.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
Online social network services have attracted more and more users in recent years. So the security in social networks becomes a critical problem. In this paper, we propose a virus model based on the application network of Facebook, which is the most popular among these social network service providers. We also model the virus propagation with an email virus model and compare the behaviors of virus spreading in Facebook and email network. We find that while Facebook provides a platform for application developers, it also provides the same chance for virus spreading. And virus will spread faster in Facebook network if users of Facebook spend more time on it for entertainment.
Keywords :
Internet; computer viruses; social networking (online); Facebook; online social network services; virus model; virus propagation modeling; Computer hacking; Data models; Electronic mail; Facebook; Network topology; Postal services;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Odense
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7787-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4138-9
DOI :
10.1109/ASONAM.2010.22
