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Michael Fire

Software and Information Systems Engineering, BGU
Verified email at bgu.ac.il
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Online social networks: threats and solutions

M Fire, R Goldschmidt, Y Elovici - … Communications Surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many online social network (OSN) users are unaware of the numerous security risks that exist
in these networks, including privacy violations, identity theft, and sexual harassment, just …

Link prediction in social networks using computationally efficient topological features

M Fire, L Tenenboim, O Lesser, R Puzis… - 2011 IEEE third …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Online social networking sites have become increasingly popular over the last few years. As
a result, new interdisciplinary research directions have emerged in which social network …

[PDF][PDF] Strangers intrusion detection-detecting spammers and fake profiles in social networks based on topology anomalies

M Fire, G Katz, Y Elovici - Human journal, 2012 - academia.edu
Today’s social networks are plagued by numerous types of malicious profiles which can range
from socialbots to sexual predators. We present a novel method for the detection of these …

Organization mining using online social networks

M Fire, R Puzis - Networks and Spatial Economics, 2016 - Springer
Complementing the formal organizational structure of a business are the informal connections
among employees. These relationships help identify knowledge hubs, working groups, …

Over-optimization of academic publishing metrics: observing Goodhart's Law in action

M Fire, C Guestrin - GigaScience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background The academic publishing world is changing significantly, with ever-growing
numbers of publications each year and shifting publishing patterns. However, the metrics used …

Entity matching in online social networks

O Peled, M Fire, L Rokach… - … Conference on Social …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have essentially become an integral part of
our daily lives. There are hundreds of OSNs, each with its own focus and offers for particular …

Friend or foe? Fake profile identification in online social networks

M Fire, D Kagan, A Elyashar, Y Elovici - Social Network Analysis and …, 2014 - Springer
The amount of personal information involuntarily exposed by users on online social networks
is staggering, as shown in recent research. Moreover, recent reports indicate that these …

Zooming into video conferencing privacy

D Kagan, GF Alpert, M Fire - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The unprecedented growth in video conferencing usage is accompanied by multiple security
and privacy threats. Importantly, protecting users’ privacy is not always in their own hands. …

Computationally efficient link prediction in a variety of social networks

M Fire, L Tenenboim-Chekina, R Puzis… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Online social networking sites have become increasingly popular over the last few years. As
a result, new interdisciplinary research directions have emerged in which social network …

Predicting student exam's scores by analyzing social network data

M Fire, G Katz, Y Elovici, B Shapira… - Active Media Technology …, 2012 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a novel method for the prediction of a person’s success in an academic
course. By extracting log data from the course’s website and applying network analysis …