Abstract: Social networks are unequivocally the most used application for communication and information sharing in the 21st century. As growth of this technology increases, there is a need to implement a more secure authentication mechanism to protect users as well as the platform providers from various social engineering attacks. A recent study from LinkedIn and Twitter hacks shows that weak passwords and single factor authentication are still prevalent shortcomings facing most social networking sites. This end-user security lapse often paves way for phishing and malware attacks and undermines the overall integrity of the system.In this study, we review the rise of social networks and the underlying concepts of two factor authentication. Furthermore, we propose a novel, feasible, cost effective and secure technique of applying an email based password tokenization as a second factor authentication in social networking sites.

• Publication Date: 13-Jul-2013
• DOI: 10.15224/978-981-07-7021-1-16
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Abstract: The understanding of our modern world is strictly linked to the knowledge of the past as the future depends on our understanding of the present.This research aims at analyzing and promoting the instruments to develop cultural interaction and knowledge exchange for inter-universities cooperation.The above ideas will be realized through a shared platform for data communication and its basis device is the digital room project. It constitutes a space where the faculties of architecture can exploit their work and give it a new dimension, connecting other structures located in the partners\' universities. Therefore knowledge will be transmitted through the access to a shared database.The platform will be implemented through the intervention of several expertises, in order to develop a dynamic system and to share the scientific researching activities and methodologies, in the long term it is foreseen to clone the e-rooms in order to create a network of the most important universities of the w

• Publication Date: 13-Jul-2013
• DOI: 10.15224/978-981-07-7021-1-17
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