This document discusses security and privacy issues related to Facebook, including cyber identity theft, cybersquatting, and spamming. The author proposes to develop a third-party application called "Footlight" to help Facebook users secure their privacy and security from identity theft. A literature review is presented on previous research related to security and privacy problems on social media sites like Facebook. The author aims to determine how to protect social networks from spamming and identity theft, evaluate the level of privacy sensitivity and spam rate, and detect identity theft on Facebook. The proposed research method involves a quantitative survey of 250 respondents to analyze security and privacy preferences and issues on Facebook.

1. FACEBOOK SECURITY AND PRIVACY:
CYBER IDENTITY
THEFT,CYBERSQUATING AND
SPAMMING
BALOGUN ABIODUN KAMORU (GS44360)
PhD Information Systems
Supervisory committee/Advisor
Pm Dr. Azmi bin Jaafar/ Pm Dr. Marzanah Jabar
.

2. Introduction
ABSTRACT
• Social engineering of Online Social networks sites focusing on Facebook
environ. I intend to explore the Facebook problem on spamming, identity
theft and cyber squatting. There is a broad consensus regarding the online
social networks especially Facebook. Studies from literature have shown
the usefulness and application of online social networks. Despite this,
research shows that they are still lapses on privacy and security issues like
identity theft, cyber squatting and spamming (what you did?).
• Facebook have many users globally, the significance and important reason
to embark on this research problem is to make the Facebook a safer
environ to its users. The real reason to take up this challenging issues of
online social networks especially on Facebook is to create a viable and
secured environs for the users, service providers, stakeholders and IT
professional, why they have to be security and privacy conscious while
surfing on online social networks especially Facebook. (Why you did it).

3. Introduction (cont’d)
• Previous attempts and studies in Online social networks especially
Facebook have used Model Virtual World Security Threat Matrix(STM )
have been very limited. This paper proposes a rigorous model technique
to measure the rate at which spamming,identity theft affect the Facebook,
a way forward to improve the security and privacy especially on spamming
and cybersquatting and cyber identity theft. Two different approaches will
be employed, firstly the Literature view of Online social networks
especially Facebook for comparative analysis, secondly the quantitative
approach technique will be used, Questionaire will be administer and the
respondent will be able to access and sent back respectively.(How you
did it?)
• This study usher a new era towards online social networks sites especially
Facebook, why the body of literature on information system with
emphasis on privacy and security with core leading emphasis on cyber
squatting,spamming and cyber identity theft. The results of the
experiment and the statistical/empirical tests supplemented by the actual
figure and test of the research method use.(what is found?).

4. Research Problem
• Problem of spamming on Facebook
• Problem of Cyber identity and Cyber
squatting.
• Problem associated with other Social
networks site like Twitter, Tagged etc

5. Purpose of study
• To develop a third party application (Footlight application)that will
help Facebook users to secure their privacy and security on identity
theft.
• To produce a guideline from Facebook user online from user design
perspective and trend of the new design in information systems.
• To contribute to increasing awareness about privacy and security
problems in online social networks especially facebook.
• To determine the the potential security threat pose to the online
users.
• To analysis the security and privacy preference set by the service
provider.
• To develop and mitigate anti spamming tools specifically for
facebook environ.

6. Research Questions
• How can we protect our social online networks free
from spamming and identity theft especially Facebook?
• In what way can I categories or evaluate the level of
spam and identity theft? Is rate of privacy sensitivity is
higher?
• How good is anti spamming? And how to detect
identity theft on Facebook?
• Why has the Facebook not take exclusive solution in
solving the problem? Why the previous solution not
working?
• What exactly the spamming issue and how does it
relate to security and Privacy?

7. Literature Review
• Social technologies never have predictable and
absolute positive or negative effects, which is
why social scientists dread questions like these. In
considering the effects of social network sites, it
is clear that there are many challenges to work
through -- the increasing commercialization of
this space, the need to construct strong privacy
protections for users, and safety issues -- but I
believe the benefits we receive as a society
provided by these tools far outweigh the risks.”
(Ellison, 2008).

8. Literature review
• The evaluation of the Internet to its current
phase commonly known as Web 2.0 has
brought more opportunities as well as
challenges for social application. One of the
major opportunities is the wide availability of
new online applications commonly described
as Social Media and particular new online
networking environments known as online
Social Networking Sites (Constantinides, at al.,
2010)

9. • Facebook security and privacy issue
Litearture Map Review for Facebook security and privacy
.Privacy
.Confidentiality
.Payment
.Authentication
.Intellectual Property theft
.Multiple identity
.Vandalism
.Defamation
.Transaction
Integrity
Privacy
issue of
faceboo
k.Leitch
&
Warren
2007
Security issue of
facebook.Alan
Oxley,2013
Security issue
challenging facebook.
Lee & Warren 2007.
Facebook security issue:
Spamming,Cyber identity
theft and Cyber squating
A phishing threat/Multiple
identity. Nalin Asanka,2014.
D.York,2013
Cyber identity theft Spamming Cyber
squatting
Electroni
c
theft,S.Sa
xby 2013
Multiple
identity
managemen
t.D.Millen
2007
Malwares,
Kaspersky
2013
Ransomewar
e/Spyware.
Mcafee,2013
massive
cyber
attack.J.Gille
s 2011
Phishing/Spoof
ing.
D.York,2012

10. Correlation of the Literature Map Review of Facebook Security and Privacy Issues:
Spamming
Facebook Security and
Privacy issue: Spamming
Problem
Effect of
Spamming
Cyber identity
theft Cyber squatting
Electronic
identity,Gros
sman 2010
Multiple
identity theft,
Dimicco,Mille
n,2007
Ransomewar
e/Espionage,
Steve
Saxby,2013
Economic
loss/Cyberwar
e,M.Potts
2013
Blocking of
spamming
Eliminate cyber identity theft and
cyber squatting by blocking spamming
Intellectual
Property
theft,Leitch
2010.
Facebook
identity
theft,C.Yao
2013.
Privacy and
security issue of
facebook,Leitch
& Warren 2007
Espionage/Politic
al
Vandetta,D.York
2012
Stealing of vital
information
Cyber
bullying,J.Giles,2
011
Defamation
Lee and
Warren,2007
Vandalism,Lee and
Warren,2007
Eliminate Cyber identity and Cybersquatting by Blocking Spamming

11. Conclusion
• From our finding and research , the research will
benefit the users of the Facebook, it will lead us
to the solution to dangerous threat pose by using
Facebook and other Online social networks, It
will benefit the stakeholders,policy makers and
decision makers on privacy and security issues. It
will also leads to the review of data protection
act. It will make the Facebook more secure and
Viable for the million users around the world.

12. Research Method
• Quantitative Method will be used
• Empirical method/Survey method
• Previous attempts and studies in Online social networks especially
Facebook have used Model Virtual World Security Threat Matrix(STM )
have been very limited.
• Data Set:
– New data set of 250 respondence
– Collection strategy: Questionnaire
– Place: universities in Malaysia
– Age of the participant: 18 and Above.
• The hypothesis will be verified/tested using Questionnaires through
survey
• SPSS will be used as statistical Tool to process the data and visualize the
output (Table, Bar chart).

13. Significance study
• The Internet has indeed revolutionized the way we think,
act and do things, since the advent of social networks and
its Application, there has being an increasing and demand
for users and developers to come to a common ground and
that is designing and implementing a privacy features.
• The study has significance on the field of information
system and to make our online social network more
secured, the study is made to have effects on facebook and
other online social networks
• Generally, it is significant to privacy advocates, security and
internet professional, Internet service provider,
Government agencies and research academy.

14. Project Schedule

15. Project Schedule

16. Project schedule

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