Open AccessA Survey of Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks
Author(s) -
Constantin SPÂNU
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of international conference on cybersecurity and cybercrime
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
eISSN - 2393-0837
pISSN - 2393-0772
DOI - 10.19107/cybercon.2014.08
Subject(s) - popularity , internet privacy , exploit , computer security , identity theft , social network (sociolinguistics) , malware , computer science , phishing , social engineering (security) , information privacy , social media , the internet , world wide web , psychology , social psychology
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have gained more popularity in recent years. Because of its large user base, and large amount of information, they become a potential channel for attackers to exploit. Many social networking sites try to prevent those exploitations, but many attackers are still able to overcome those security countermeasures by using different techniques. Social network users may not be aware of such threats. Therefore, this paper will present a survey on different privacy and security issues in online social networks. The issues include privacy issues, identity theft, social networks spam, social networks malware, and physical threats. Social network privacy issues, social network security issues, social network threats, identity Theft, social network spam, social network malware, Facebook worms, Twitter Worms.