The attacks performed on Online Social Networks by cyber-criminals is known as Social Network attacks.
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Evolving Cyber Threats, Combating Techniques, and Open Issues in Online Social Networks
Sanjeev Rao (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India), Anil Kumar Verma (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India), and Tarunpreet Bhatia (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5728-0.ch012
Abstract
Online social networks (OSNs) are renowned powerful web tools that allow worldwide users to connect with their friends, families, professional groups, and social circle through social interaction for sharing common interests. With the proliferation, ease, and efficacy of OSNs, these are becoming an essential tool for communication. But many OSN users innocently uncover their personal information such as their home address, phone numbers, email id, etc. that can be used by the malicious user to perform various kind for cyber-crimes like cyber-bullying, spamming, click-jacking, identity theft, phishing, distrust, fake profiles, spreading malicious content, etc. This chapter presents a review of various privacy and security threats/attacks associated with OSN users and recommended combating techniques based on data-mining and machine learning algorithms. Also, the future directions for upcoming researchers in this field are suggested.