In current times, malefactors chances to succeed in performing a social engineering attack on company usually depends on how much personal information about employees he owns. Thus, search and analysis of public information about company’s employees from social network websites with purpose of protection company from malicious actions is important issue. This article is devoted to methods of identifying user’s online footprint in website of social network VK.com. Prototype of the tool for identifying employees public pages using binary decision trees as classifier is presented. Approach to fully automated gathering of training dataset is described.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2nd International Scientific Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry, IITI 2017
EditorsSergey Kovalev, Andrey Sukhanov, Margreta Vasileva, Valery Tarassov, Vaclav Snasel, Ajith Abraham
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages441-447
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783319683201
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2018
Event2nd International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry, IITI 2017 - Varna, Bulgaria
Duration: 14 Sep 201716 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume679
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Intelligent Information Technologies for Industry, IITI 2017
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityVarna
Period14/09/1716/09/17

    Research areas

  • Information security, Social engineering attacks, Social networks, User protection, User’s vulnerabilities profile

    Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science(all)

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