EnhaNcing seCurity And privacy in the Social wEb: a user centered approach for the protection of minors

Resultado final

Documents, reports (12)

Software subsystems integration

Software modules integration.

Dissemination, commercialization and IP protection activities (b)

Second phase of dissemination, commercialization and IP protection activities

Software libraries built on Graphos.ml using data mining for the detection of aggressive or distressed behaviors in OSNs

Report on user and societal aspects, and on usability of security and privacy OSN systems

Dissemination, commercialization and IP protection activities (a)

First phase of dissemination, commercialization and IP protection activities

Initial testing and evaluation

Development of accurate and sophisticated sentiment analysis approaches

System requirements and software architecture (a)

System requirements and software architecture intermediate report

System requirements and software architecture (b)

System requirements and software architecture final report

Software libraries built on Graphos.ml for detection of fake activity in large scale OSNs

Software libraries built on Graphos.ml for detection of fake activity in large scale OSNs.

Development of automated techniques to detect early indications of malicious behavior of social network users

Security- and privacy-driven user interface design guidelines

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (6)

Pilots and testing results.

Implementation of browser add-on that detects false information and fake identities in OSN

Implementation of browser add-on for content detection and protection

Implementation of browser add-on for content detection and protection.

Development of content protection techniques that use steganography, encryption and watermarking

Development of content protection techniques that use steganography, encryption and watermarking.

Implementation of browser add-on that detects distressed or aggressively behaving users.

Design and implementation of in-browser content analysis filter

Design and implementation of in-browser content analysis filter.

Publicaciones

Conference proceedings (35)

Why allowing profile name reuse is a bad idea

Autores: Enrico Mariconti, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Syed Sharique Ahmad, Nicolas Nikiforou, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis, Gianluca Stringhini
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on System Security - EuroSec '16, 2016, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 9781-450342957
Editor: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/2905760.2905762

Cybersafety in Modern Online Social Networks

Autores: Jeremy Blackburn; Emiliano De Cristofaro; Michael Sirivianos; Thorsten Strufe
Publicado en: 2017
Editor: Dagstuhl
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1146597

Smart Cities at Risk! - Privacy and Security Borderlines from Social Networking in Cities

Autores: Vaia Moustaka, Zenonas Theodosiou, Athena Vakali, Anastasis Kounoudes
Publicado en: Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18, 2018, Page(s) 905-910, ISBN 9781-450356404
Editor: WWW18
DOI: 10.1145/3184558.3191516

"""You Know What to Do"": Proactive Detection of YouTube Videos Targeted by Coordinated Hate Attacks"

Autores: Enrico Mariconti, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Jordi Luque Serrano, Gianluca Stringhini
Publicado en: The 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2018
Editor: ACM CSCW 2019
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479940

The Good, the Bad and the Bait: Detecting and Characterizing Clickbait on YouTube

Autores: Savvas Zannettou, Sotirios Chatzis, Kostantinos Papadamou, Michael Sirivianos
Publicado en: 2018 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2018, Page(s) 63-69, ISBN 978-1-5386-8276-0
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPW.2018.00018

On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities

Autores: Savvas Zannettou; Tristan Caulfield; Jeremy Blackburn; Emiliano De Cristofaro; Michael Sirivianos; Gianluca Stringhini; Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
Publicado en: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018 (ACM IMC 2018), 2018
Editor: ACMIMC'18
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1323551

A Unified Deep Learning Architecture for Abuse Detection

Autores: Antigoni-Maria Founta, Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Athena Vakali, Ilias Leontiadis
Publicado en: 11th ACM Conference ​on Web Science, 2019
Editor: ACM WebSci 2019
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479934

Twitter Influencers or Cheated Buyers?

Autores: Savvas Zinonos; Andreas Tsirtsis; Nicolas Tsapatsoulis
Publicado en: IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress, 2018, 2018
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479946

Large Scale Crowdsourcing and Characterization of Twitter Abusive Behavior

Autores: Antigoni-Maria Founta, Constantinos Djouvas, Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali, Michael Sirivianos, Nicolas Kourtellis
Publicado en: International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2018 (ICWSM18), 2018
Editor: ICWSM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1443348

What is Gab - A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber

Autores: Savvas Zannettou, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Haewoon Kwak, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringini, Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018 - WWW '18, 2018, Page(s) 1007-1014, ISBN 9781-450356404
Editor: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3184558.3191531

Understanding Web Archiving Services and Their (Mis)Use on Social Media

Autores: Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini
Publicado en: THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA (ICWSM-18), 2018
Editor: ICWSM'18
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479799

Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls on Twitter and Their Influence on the Web

Autores: Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: CyberSafety 2019: The Fourth Workshop on Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior, 2019
Editor: ACM
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479784

LOBO - Evaluation of Generalization Deficiencies in Twitter Bot Classifiers

Autores: "Juan Echeverrï#!a, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Gianluca Stringhini, Shi Zhou"
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference on - ACSAC '18, 2018, Page(s) 137-146, ISBN 9781-450365697
Editor: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3274694.3274738

"""And We Will Fight For Our Race!"" A Measurement Study of Genetic Testing Conversations on Reddit and 4chan"

Autores: Mittos, Alexandros; Zannettou, Savvas; Blackburn, Jeremy; De Cristofaro, Emiliano
Publicado en: The 13th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 21, 2019
Editor: ICWSM-19
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2636602

Who Let The Trolls Out? Towards Understanding State-Sponsored Trolls

Autores: Savvas Zannettou; Tristan Caulfield; William Setzer; Michael Sirivianos; Gianluca Stringhini; Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: 11th ACM Conference ​on Web Science, 3, 2019
Editor: ACM WebSci 2019
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2558560

The central community of Twitter ego-networks as a means for fake influencer detection

Autores: Nicolas Tsapatsoulis; Vasiliki Anastasopoulou; Klimis Ntalianis
Publicado en: The 4th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2019), 19, 2019
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3237771

Cyberbullies in Twitter: A focused review

Autores: Nicolas Tsapatsoulis; Vasiliki Anastasopoulou
Publicado en: 14th International Workshop On Semantic And Social Media Adaptation And Personalization (SMAP 2019), 11, 2019
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2657416

From Risk Factors to Detection and Intervention: A Metareview and Practical Proposal for Research on Cyberbullying

Autores: Andri IOANNOU, Jeremy BLACKBURN, Gianluca STRINGHINI, Emiliano DE CHRISTOFARO, Nicolas KOURTELLIS, Michael SIRIVIANOS, Panayiotis ZAPHIRIS
Publicado en: IST-Africa 2017 Conference Proceedings, 2017
Editor: IIMC International Information Management Corporation
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.846283

"Measuring #GamerGate - A Tale of Hate, Sexism, and Bullying"

Autores: Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion, 2017, Page(s) 1285-1290, ISBN 9781-450349147
Editor: WWW2017
DOI: 10.1145/3041021.3053890

Detecting Aggressors and Bullies on Twitter

Autores: Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion - WWW '17 Companion, 2017, Page(s) 767-768, ISBN 9781-450349147
Editor: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3041021.3054211

Early malicious activity discovery in microblogs by social bridges detection

Autores: Antonia Gogoglou, Zenonas Theodosiou, Tasos Kounoudes, Athena Vakali, Yannis Manolopoulos
Publicado en: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 2016, Page(s) 132-137, ISBN 978-1-5090-5844-0
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2016.7886022

"Hate is not Binary - Studying Abusive Behavior of #GamerGate on Twitter"

Autores: Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - HT '17, 2017, Page(s) 65-74, ISBN 9781-450347082
Editor: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3078714.3078721

Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effects on the Web

Autores: Gabriel Emile Hine, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Riginos Samaras, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: Proceedings of the International Conference on Web and Social Media 2017 (ICWSM'17), 2017
Editor: ICWSM'17
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.841769

Cyber security risks for minors: A taxonomy and a software architecture

Autores: Andreas Tsirtsis, Nicolas Tsapatsoulis, Makis Stamatelatos, Kwstantinos Papadamou, Michael Sirivianos
Publicado en: 2016 11th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2016, Page(s) 93-99, ISBN 978-1-5090-5246-2
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SMAP.2016.7753391

A multi-layer software architecture framework for adaptive real-time analytics

Autores: Athena Vakali, Paschalis Korosoglou, Pavlos Daoglou
Publicado en: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 2016, Page(s) 2425-2430, ISBN 978-1-4673-9005-7
Editor: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BigData.2016.7840878

On the detection of images containing child-pornographic material

Autores: Emilios Yiallourou, Rafaella Demetriou, Andreas Lanitis
Publicado en: 2017 24th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), 2017, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-0643-8
Editor: ICT2017
DOI: 10.1109/ICT.2017.7998260

Mean Birds - Detecting Aggression and Bullying on Twitter

Autores: Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference - WebSci '17, 2017, Page(s) 13-22, ISBN 9781-450348966
Editor: Websci2017
DOI: 10.1145/3091478.3091487

What's in a Name? - Understanding Profile Name Reuse on Twitter

Autores: Enrico Mariconti, Jeremiah Onaolapo, Syed Sharique Ahmad, Nicolas Nikiforou, Manuel Egele, Nick Nikiforakis, Gianluca Stringhini
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '17, 2017, Page(s) 1161-1170, ISBN 9781-450349130
Editor: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3038912.3052589

Characterizing the Use of Images in State-Sponsored Information Warfare Operations by Russian Trolls on Twitter

Autores: Zannettou, Savvas; Caulfield, Tristan; Bradlyn, Barry; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Stringhini, Gianluca; Blackburn, Jeremy
Publicado en: 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA, 6, 2020
Editor: ICWSM-2020
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3553582

Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case

Autores: Aravindh Raman; Sagar Joglekar; Emiliano De Cristofaro; Nishanth Sastry; Gareth Tyson
Publicado en: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019, 13, 2019
Editor: IMC
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3407006

Class-based Prediction Errors to Detect Hate Speech with Out-of-vocabulary Words

Autores: Joan Serra, Ilias Leontiadis, Dimitris Spathis, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn, Athena Vakali
Publicado en: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '17), Workshop on Abusive Language Online, 2017
Editor: ACL17
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.884044

Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board

Autores: Antonis Papasavva; Savvas Zannettou; Emiliano De Cristofaro; Gianluca Stringhini; Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA, 2020
Editor: ICWSM -2020
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3738960

Disturbed YouTube for Kids: Characterizing and Detecting Inappropriate Videos Targeting Young Children

Autores: Papadamou, Kostantinos; Papasavva, Antonis; Zannettou, Savvas; Blackburn, Jeremy; Kourtellis, Nicolas; Leontiadis, Ilias; Stringhini, Gianluca; Sirivianos, Michael
Publicado en: 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA, 20, 2019
Editor: ICWSM-2020
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3739061

The Web Centipede: Understanding How Web Communities Influence Each Other Through the Lens of Mainstream and Alternative News Sources

Autores: Savvas Zannettou, Tristan Caulfield, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Ilias Leontiadis, Michael Sirivianos, Gianluca Stringhini, and Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2017, 2017
Editor: ACM IMC 2017
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.844699

POISED: Spotting Twitter Spam Off the Beaten Paths

Autores: Shirin Nilizadeh, Francois Labreche, Alireza Sedighian, Ali Zand, Jose Fernandez, Christopher Kruegel, Gianluca Stringhini, Giovanni Vigna
Publicado en: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2017
Editor: ACM CCS, 2017
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.883969

Peer reviewed articles (3)

From risk factors to detection and intervention: a practical proposal for future work on cyberbullying

Autores: Andri Ioannou, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nicolas Kourtellis, Michael Sirivianos
Publicado en: Behaviour & Information Technology, 37/3, 2018, Page(s) 258-266, ISSN 0144-929X
Editor: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2018.1432688

The Web of False Information: Rumors, Fake News, Hoaxes, Clickbait, and Various Other Shenanigans

Autores: Savvas Zannettou, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn, Nicolas Kourtellis
Publicado en: Special Issue on Combating Digital Misinformation and Disinformation and On the Horizon, 2019, Page(s) Article No. 10, ISSN 1936-1955
Editor: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479936

Εnhancing social networking in smart cities: Privacy and security borderlines

Autores: Vaia Moustaka, Zenonas Theodosiou, Athena Vakali, Anastasis Kounoudes, Leonidas G. Anthopoulos
Publicado en: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018, ISSN 0040-1625
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.10.026

Other (5)

A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism

Autores: Joel Finkelstein; Savvas Zannettou; Barry Bradlyn; Jeremy Blackburn
Publicado en: 2018
Editor: arXiv
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1479948

A Self-Attentive Emotion Recognition Network

Autores: Harris Partaourides; Kostantinos Papadamou; Nicolas Kourtellis; Ilias Leontiadis; Sotirios Chatzis
Publicado en: 21, 2019
Editor: Arxiv
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3236348

Detecting Cyberbullying and Cyberaggression in Social Media

Autores: Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali, Nicolas Kourtellis
Publicado en: ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2019
Editor: ACM TWEB
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3350164

Multiple-Identity Image Attacks Against Face-based Identity Verification

Autores: Jerone T. A. Andrews, Thomas Tanay, and Lewis D. Griffin
Publicado en: 2019
Editor: arXiv
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3350946

Angry Birds Flock Together: Aggression Propagation on Social Media

Autores: Chrysoula Terizi; Despoina Chatzakou; Evaggelia Pitoura; Panayiotis Tsaparas; Nicolas Kourtellis
Publicado en: 22, 2020
Editor: arXiv
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3692844

Book chapters (1)

E-safety in Web 2.0 Learning Environments: A Research Synthesis and Implications for Researchers and Practitioners

Autores: Antigoni Parmaxi, Kostantinos Papadamou, Michael Sirivianos, Makis Stamatelatos
Publicado en: Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Novel Learning Ecosystems, 2016, Page(s) 249-261
Editor: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58509-3_20