TY - GEN
T1 - Transmitting hidden information using steganography via Facebook
AU - Amsden, Nathaniel D.
AU - Chen, Lei
AU - Yuan, Xiaohui
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/11/19
Y1 - 2014/11/19
N2 - Social networking websites, specifically Facebook, offer means of reaching wide audiences to share information, including photos, documents, and videos. Social networks post potential critical threats to security and privacy, for example, using steganography to send covert information via Facebook photos. Experiments show that Facebook Cover Photos can effectively hide information to at least twenty percent capacity using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficient embedding algorithms. JavaScript Facebook application-determined key security properties are desired in a practical steganography implementation, yet, the development of such security properties is missing. Based on our experimental results, we conclude that an automated, Facebook-integrated application is not desirable for these reasons and therefore manual interaction with Facebook should be used for steganography purposes.
AB - Social networking websites, specifically Facebook, offer means of reaching wide audiences to share information, including photos, documents, and videos. Social networks post potential critical threats to security and privacy, for example, using steganography to send covert information via Facebook photos. Experiments show that Facebook Cover Photos can effectively hide information to at least twenty percent capacity using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficient embedding algorithms. JavaScript Facebook application-determined key security properties are desired in a practical steganography implementation, yet, the development of such security properties is missing. Based on our experimental results, we conclude that an automated, Facebook-integrated application is not desirable for these reasons and therefore manual interaction with Facebook should be used for steganography purposes.
KW - Information Hiding
KW - Social Media
KW - Social Networks
KW - Steganography
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84915748774
U2 - 10.1109/ICCCNT.2014.6963080
DO - 10.1109/ICCCNT.2014.6963080
M3 - Conference article
T3 - 5th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, ICCCNT 2014
BT - 5th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, ICCCNT 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 5th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, ICCCNT 2014
Y2 - 11 July 2014 through 13 July 2014
ER -