Analysis of Facebook Steganographic Capabilities

Nathaniel D. Amsden; Lei Chen

doi:10.1109/ICCNC.2015.7069317

Analysis of Facebook Steganographic Capabilities

Nathaniel D. Amsden, Lei Chen

Information Technology

Sam Houston State University

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Abstract

The massive information-sharing capabilities and global reach of Facebook are of great interest to organizations of all types, including those with malicious and/or illegal intents. Our main findings in this research include the following. Steganography can be employed to send covert information via Facebook photos and potentially videos as well. Facebook Cover Photos can effectively utilize steganography, of at least 15.75% capacity using DCT coefficient embedding algorithms. Network traffic analysis determined no distinguishable differences between network traffic patterns of normal images and cover photos as they were uploaded to the Facebook servers. Firewall rules can be written to block all image uploads to Facebook.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2015.7069317
State	Published - Feb 16 2015

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Databases and Information Systems

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Facebook
Information hiding
Social media
Steganography

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