Compromised Account Detection and Prevention by Profiling Social Behavior and FASS Key Concept
Neha M. Yadav, Prashant N. Chatur · 2017
Nowadays, users are more addicted to the Online Social Networks(OSNs), a network in which many users, group of people, or a particular organization are connected via network. It ensures communication between these users, or groups or an organizations. Through this communication, the users are able to build connections with other users and share their field of interest, can be able to communicate with other users worldwide. With these, it leads to a serious threat of compromised account. Compromised accounts are the accounts that are used by the unauthorized user. Many people in the world makes misuse of the other users information may be due to spoil someones reputation. These can be done by accessing account unauthorized way. The another threat that may occur is the sybil account. In the this another way, the sybil account is the account has been created by the attacker by making use of the authorized user. It is the fake account created by unauthorized user. In this paper, first the compromised account is detected and some security issues are taken into consideration and an effort is made to prevent the account from compromised by using a concept known as FASS Key concept. Compromised account is detected by analyzing the users social behavior and security is provided by implementing one concept that is known as FASS Key. It is an authenticate secure system which provides a cryptographically strong and security to the account.