The Socialbot Network: Are Social Botnets Possible?

users (e.g., by posting intriguing status updates crawled from the Web) make it difficult for other users and SNS security defenses to identify them as bots. One implication of a successful infiltration is that private information is exposed. Our experiments showed that large volumes of private data (e.g., birth dates, postal and email addresses, phone numbers) that are publicly inaccessible could SOCIAL MEDIATOR