TY - JOUR
T1 - Social network security
T2 - Issues, challenges, threats, and solutions
AU - Rathore, Shailendra
AU - Sharma, Pradip Kumar
AU - Loia, Vincenzo
AU - Jeong, Young Sik
AU - Park, Jong Hyuk
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - Social networks are very popular in today's world. Millions of people use various forms of social networks as they allow individuals to connect with friends and family, and share private information. However, issues related to maintaining the privacy and security of a user's information can occur, especially when the user's uploaded content is multimedia, such as photos, videos, and audios. Uploaded multimedia content carries information that can be transmitted virally and almost instantaneously within a social networking site and beyond. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of different security and privacy threats that target every user of social networking sites. In addition, we separately focus on various threats that arise due to the sharing of multimedia content within a social networking site. We also discuss current state-of- the-art defense solutions that can protect social network users from these threats. We then present future direction and discuss some easy-to-apply response techniques to achieve the goal of a trustworthy and secure social network ecosystem.
AB - Social networks are very popular in today's world. Millions of people use various forms of social networks as they allow individuals to connect with friends and family, and share private information. However, issues related to maintaining the privacy and security of a user's information can occur, especially when the user's uploaded content is multimedia, such as photos, videos, and audios. Uploaded multimedia content carries information that can be transmitted virally and almost instantaneously within a social networking site and beyond. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of different security and privacy threats that target every user of social networking sites. In addition, we separately focus on various threats that arise due to the sharing of multimedia content within a social networking site. We also discuss current state-of- the-art defense solutions that can protect social network users from these threats. We then present future direction and discuss some easy-to-apply response techniques to achieve the goal of a trustworthy and secure social network ecosystem.
KW - Multimedia data
KW - Security and privacy
KW - Security threats
KW - Social network service
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028720663&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ins.2017.08.063
DO - 10.1016/j.ins.2017.08.063
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028720663
SN - 0020-0255
VL - 421
SP - 43
EP - 69
JO - Information Sciences
JF - Information Sciences
ER -