Social Cyber Research Articles

Twitter Propaganda Operations: Analyzing Sociopolitical Issues in Saudi Arabia

The purpose of this article is to explore Arabic-language Tweets based out of Saudi Arabia to investigate the social media landscape. Specifically, this article seeks to address the question, “What thematic issues concerning the U.S. socio-political landscape are present in Arabic-language Twitter postings?” And, “To what extent can these issues be described as propagandic in nature?” To do so, we propose a machine-learning and artificial intelligence span detection approach to identify propaganda Tweets in Middle Eastern Countries, with a focus on Saudi Arabia. As opposed to previous work, this article maps and investigates different propaganda categories using the BEND Social Cyber Security framework. This article then proceeds to a case study analysis of state-sponsored targeted propaganda from Saudi Arabia and briefly describes the categories of propaganda uncovered. We then relate those categories to the BEND Framework and conclude with policy recommendations and discussion.

A Computational Framework for Cyber Threats in Medical IoT Systems

Smart social systems are ones where a number of individuals share and interact with each other via various networking devices. There exist a number of benefits to including smart-based systems in networks such as religions, economy, medicine, and other networks. However, the involvement of several cyber threats leads to adverse effects on society in terms of finance, business, liability, economy, psychology etc. The aim of this paper is to present a secure and efficient medical Internet of Things communication mechanism by preventing various cyber threats. The proposed framework uses Artificial Intelligence-based techniques such as Levenberg–Marquardt (LM) and Viterbi algorithms to prevent various social cyber threats during interaction and sharing of messages. The proposed mechanism is simulated and validated with various performance metrics compared with the traditional mechanism.

Social Public Opinion Communication and Network Legal Management Based on Artificial Intelligence Cognitive Wireless Network

Public opinion supervision is an important part of the national security supervision system. In the Internet era, especially with the rapid development of mobile social media, the position of online public opinion supervision in public opinion supervision is becoming more and more prominent. Internet public opinion supervision has a wide range of subjects, diverse objects, multiple channels, instant and efficient communication speed, and two-way interaction and has its distinctive features, but at the same time there are phenomena such as online rumors, invasion of others' privacy, and venting private anger. The existence of these problems requires strengthening the legal system of public opinion supervision, enhancing the network literacy of Internet users, government management departments, website operators, and other subjects of online public opinion supervision, continuously improving the technical level of online public opinion monitoring, and public opinion guidance ability of network supervision departments, and strengthening the regulation of online public opinion supervision through the improvement and improvement of legal system and coordinated promotion of cyberspace governance. Meanwhile, mobile Internet is the soil for social opinion dissemination. With the development of technology, cognitive wireless network is becoming an important infrastructure in the mobile Internet. Therefore, this paper studies social opinion dissemination and cyber law management in cognitive wireless networks and proposes a cognitive engine model based on artificial intelligence algorithms for cognitive wireless networks for enhancing opinion dissemination and law management. The extended experiments demonstrate the advanced performance and effectiveness of the proposed method in this paper and provide a new technical approach for enhancing public opinion dissemination and legal management.

Fake Identities in Social Cyberspace

Personation - the act of assuming another’s identity with intent to deceive, is an ancient phenomenon. In this article we seek to research online impersonation and to uncover the causes for this phenomenon. We do so by analyzing and comparing several case studies while referring to more traditional concepts of social identity. As discovered, on the one hand users can create fake identities to enhance their personalities for personal reasons such as voyeurism or as means of escaping reality, or even promote human rights by avoiding local authoritarian censorship. On the other hand, malicious users like terrorists or criminals manipulate online users with phishing attempts and frauds, making social cyber space less secure.

Multi-source brain computing with systematic fusion for smart health

With the progress of artificial intelligence, big data and functional neuroimaging technologies, brain computing has rapidly advanced our understanding of brain intelligence and brain disorders. We argue that existing data analytical methods have become insufficient for brain computing when dealing with multiple brain big data sources, because such methods mainly focus on flattening strategies and fail to work well for systematic understanding of the constituent elements of cognition, emotion and disease, as well as the intra- and inter-relations within and among themselves. To address this problem, we present in this paper a novel multi-source brain computing platform by Data-Brain driven systematic fusion. First, we formalize a series of behaviors surrounding the Brain Informatics-based investigation process, and present a conceptual model to systematically represent content and context of functional neuroimaging data. Then, we propose the systematic brain computing framework with multi-aspect fusion and inference to understand brain specificity and give uncertainty quantification, as well as its inspiration and applications for translational studies on brain health. In particular, a graph matching-based task search algorithm is introduced to help systematic experimental design and data sampling with multiple cognitive tasks. The study increases the interpretability and transparency of brain computing findings by inferring and testing multiple hypotheses taking into consideration the effect of evidence combination. Finally, multiple sources of knowledge (K), information (I) and data (D) are driven by a KID loop as the thinking space to inspire never-ending learning and multi-dimensional interactions in the connected social–cyber–physical spaces. Experimental results have demonstrated the efficacy of the proposed brain computing method with systematic fusion.

THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN BUILDING A BRAND IMAGE TO MAINTAIN A CORPORATE IMAGE ON TPA (THIRD PARTY ASSITANCE) COMPANIES

The increasing number of social media users has presented new media for public relations communication. This is then used by companies to maximize social media to provide information about products or services. This study aims to determine the role of social media in building brand image and its role in maintaining corporate image. The concept which uses in this study are the Social Media network, MPR, Cyber PR, Brand Image, and Corporate Image. The research objects are social media of TPA (Third Party Assistance) Companies such as AAI Indonesia, Fullerton, Admedika and Owlexa. This study uses post positivist paradigm, a qualitative approach and is descriptive in nature. In this study it was found that social media is not instrumental tools in building their brand image and also not play a role in maintaining the corporate image.

Research on Trans-Boundary Convergence of Different Service Chains in Health Service Ecosystem

With the aging of the population and the development of modern service industries, the health service ecosystem (HSE) is beginning to emerge. As a new form of healthcare industry in the Internet era, HSE has its inherent “social cyber” complexity: the source of healthcare service is social, and such sociality aggravates the diversity, uncertainty, and dynamics of service supply. This poses new challenges to the service matching between diverse supply and personalized requirements for aged persons. In order to meet this challenge, it is necessary to conduct the trans-boundary cooperation and integration between service chains in different domains, including business convergence, interface convergence and value convergence. This task is very difficult and there is currently no common method. In order to change such a situation, this paper proposes an interactive trans-boundary convergence method for health service ecosystem based on micro-service architecture. Firstly, the method confirms the value of service convergence, and then uses this as a driving force to achieve business process integration of different service chains. Then, the business coupling between different service chains is converted into asynchronous data communication to achieve interface convergence. Finally, the value assessment of service convergence is given to realize the value convergence. This method has been verified in the construction of National healthcare service platform for the elderly in China. The results demonstrate that our method has a substantial promise.

Digital Parenting in the Online Environments: A Review of Problems and Suggestions

Digital parenting enabled children to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital media and online environments, while on the other hand it required the protection of children against the risk of these environments. In this context it was aimed to present the online risks of the children in the digital age, the strategies used by the parents to cope with these risks and the difficulties faced by the parents when using these strategies. In this way descriptive review was made. In this context, online risks in the digital age have been elaborated in detail by the approaches that stand out in digital parenting, strategies to cope with online risks of parents and the difficulties they face when dealing with these risks. Online risks encountered in digital environments are determined as social media, online games, and cyber bullying. Parents often put restrictions and prohibitions as methods to cope with online risks, while guidance and awareness raising in the use or use of online environments according to the age group of the child stands out. In case of difficulties faced by parents, there are situations such as privacy violations and parental complacency.

Basing Action and Structures on Values in a Post-Corona World

Every country has experienced profound attack from the Coronavirus. Every state will now face deep economic damage, possibly for a prolonged period. The next stage of economic disruption produces some winners and many losers. It inherently carries risks of widespread unemployment, collapse of companies, services, taxation revenues, and consequential risks of social unrest, criminal exploitation, revolution, cyber exploitation and warfare, and possibly the collapse of states and societies, and invasion by foreign powers. Much depends on how things are handled by a small number of political leaders around the world, the decisions that they take, and the actions that they are able to implement. These challenges arise on top of the other existential risk of climate change and the extinction of species, which may now risk being overlooked. The risks to civilisation could not be more serious. How should we respond? Many wise suggestions will be made by experts on the economic, employment and administrative aspects. This analysis contributes a different perspective based on what seem to be people’s basic views of what they value. Certain values are being re-emphasised as fundamentally important, and we should consider the implications. The prevailing values of a society should be the foundation of the political decisions that are taken in the coming period of economic disruption and increased poverty, and of the evaluation of those decisions. We should also use the values to consider what changes may be necessary in structures, systems, processes actions and behaviours, so as to minimise harm and maximise the achievement of the intended goals. The argument is that a change is occurring in which pursuit of personal wealth and success at the expense of others is being replaced by recognition of the need to found society and commerce on interconnectedness. Further, this change can only be effective if it is based on the human values of other-regarding and mutual support and solidarity based on a demonstrable commitment to ethical values in conduct. That understanding of the basis of value-based relationships provides the foundation for rethinking the structures and institutions that will be needed.

A Scenario of Social Media and Cyber Security in Mexico and Sierra Leone

A Scenario of Social Media and Cyber Security in Mexico and Sierra Leone

Social cyber forensics: leveraging open source information and social network analysis to advance cyber security informatics

In this paper, we introduce the concept of social cyber forensics and its usability. Then, we introduce a tool, i.e., Maltego that can be used to study the cross-media affiliation and uncover hidden relations among various online groups. We also provide three stepwise methodologies that leverage Maltego and various open source information to uncover the hidden relationship among (1) Twitter accounts and a set of websites/blogs; (2) websites/blogs and other websites/blogs; or (3) infer the ownership of a set of websites/blogs. These methodologies have been tested during many cyber propaganda campaigns that were projected against NATO forces. A high-level view of these case studies that leveraged the concepts and methodologies provided in this paper are briefly highlighted here while the details of each case were published in various venues which are pointed out for interested readers.

Evaluating of dynamic service matching strategy for social manufacturing in cloud environment

As a new form of manufacturing industry in cloud environment, social manufacturing has its inherent “social–cyber” complexity: the source of enterprise services is social, and this sociality aggravates the diversity, uncertainty and dynamics of service supply. Researchers have done a lot to improve the adaptability of service matching strategies. However, it is difficult or even impossible to for traditional methods to evaluate the viability of these strategies because of the “social–cyber” complexity. This poses new challenges to how to evaluate and optimize these strategies in a complex social manufacturing environment. Aiming at the problem, this paper proposes a computational experiment-based evaluation framework, which can simulate all kinds of actual scenarios to verify the performance of service matching strategies. This method includes three parts: (1) design of supply & demand matching strategy; (2) construction of computational experiment system; (3) performance evaluation of service strategies in different experiment environments. A case study is given to verify the applicability of our method by means of comparing several adaptive service matching strategies (supply-oriented, demand-oriented, initial supply & demand-oriented, optimized supply & demand-oriented) in two kinds of market environments. The results demonstrate that our method has a substantial promise.

Social Media, Cyber Hate, and Racism

In the era of information technology, the power of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other products of digital technology have led to dramatic changes to the social life of people in a pluralistic Indonesia. The establishment of a digital public space that can accommodate all entities, classes, or social communities to communicate freely, without limit and open up greater opportunities for the achievement of goals in accordance with the interests, both on the basis of political goals, economic, cultural, trust and ethnic , also helped to increase the potential for social conflicts with more complex backgrounds. One of them is the widespread of racism in social media against ethnic of minorities as it occurred during the 2017 Jakarta governor election involving Basuki Tjahaya Purnama, a candidate of the ethnic of Chinese-Indonesian. This paper seeks to explore the contribution of social media as a medium for spreading the hate of speech and racism and the factors that cause it. This article finds that; firstly, the development of information technology and freedom gained by every user in managing social media member space for racism group in Indonesia utilizes the progress of information technology as medium in spreading hatred and racism in Cyber space. Secondly, the existence of hate speech and racism in social media cannot be separated from socio-political situation in society.

A Game Theoretic Approach to Modelling Jamming Attacks in Delay Tolerant Networks

<p>Cyberspace plays a prominent role in our social, economic and civic welfare and cyber security issues are of paramount importance today. Growing reliance of the intertwined military and civilian applications on wireless computer networks makes these networks highly vulnerable to attacks of which jamming attacks are a vital and exigent problem. In this paper, we study defence against jamming attacks as game in a delay tolerant network, with two adversarial players: the jammer playing against the transmitter. The transmitters seek to choose an optimal time to schedule his transmission securely, so as to maximize the probability of successful delivery before his session expires, while these transmissions are subject to inference from the jammer, who attempts to minimize this probability . We design strategies for the transmitters that offset transmission period based inference of network traffic by the jammer. We model these interactions and decisions as a game and use simulation as a tool to evaluate the games. Probability distribution functions over finite set of strategies are proposed to compute the expected payoff of both the players. Simulation results are used to evaluate the expected payoff along with the resulting equilibrium in cases where players are biased and unbiased. These results are used to strategically decide on the optimal time for both the players, and evaluate the efficiency of the strategies used by the transmitters against jammer attacks. </p>

A Study of Social Media and its Influence on Teen Information Seeking Behaviors

ABSTRACTThis article synthesizes seven peer-reviewed articles that investigate the varying roles of social networking sites, cyber peers, and social capital in the information seeking behavior of adolescents. The theoretical approaches of Brenda Dervin, Elfreda Chatman, and Carol Kuhlthau are instrumental in establishing the basis for the research in terms of information seeking behavior. There are three main foci of the research synthesized: information seeking behavior and information needs; maturation or development and behavioral norms; and the ideas of sociability or social capital and bridging capital.

Social Media, Indian Youth and Cyber Terrorism Awareness: A Comparative Analysis

Cyber Terrorism is one of the most ignored and under estimated activities in India. Indian Youth which is the third highest number of Internet and social media users after China and the U.S. with an estimated over 381 million mobile phone subscriptions with Internet connectivity. Cyber Terrorism has now become a gruesome activity, it leads to killing someone financially and India is becoming its latest victim. Everyday various newspapers are filled with the stories of cybercrimes. It is not a future threat or a prospective threat; it is an ongoing, current threat. With increasing dependence on cyber space and the Internet, vulnerability to aggressors — whether it is terrorists, criminals or hostile countries, is also increasing. In this study, the habits of teenagers all around India shows the compulsive type of behaviour of text messages but very less knowledge and awareness about the threat of cyber terrorism. These facts not only outline in clear terms the immense popularity of the internet and the use of social media but are also indicative of the fact that Indian youth is very less concerned about the threat of cyber terrorism.