The development and the wide acceptance of the Online Social Networks
intrigued many hackers who, taking advantage of the weaknesses in
OSNs’ systems and the naivety of users by attacking them on a daily basis
for profit. The objective of this thesis was to investigate and study this
phenomenon and analyze the attackers’ "modus operandi", with the aim of
automating the detection of Social Zombies. For the purposes of this study,
there is a brief review of the social networking development and security
and privacy that they provide a description of the attacker’s motives.
Moreover, a presentation of OSNs’ weaknesses and incidents, suggestions
for ways of protecting individual users and companies and, finally, a
description of a way of using standalone Facebook chats and what they
can provide.
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