Ethical, Privacy, and Security Issues in the Online Social Network Ecosystems

An important recent innovation on social networking sites is the support for plugging in third-party social applications. Together with the ever-growing number of social network users, social applications come with privacy and security risks for those users. While basic mechanisms for isolating applications are well understood, these mechanisms fall short for social-enabled applications. It is an interesting challenge to design and develop application platforms for social networks that enable the necessary functionality of social applications without compromising both users’ security and privacy. This chapter will identify and discuss the current security and privacy problems related to social applications and their platforms. Next, it will zoom in on proposals on how to address those problems.

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On Social Network Engineering for Secure Web Data and Services

Social Network Engineering for Secure Web Data and Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-3926-3.ch001 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Luca Caviglione ◽

Mauro Coccoli ◽

Alessio Merlo

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

New Technologies ◽

Online Social Network ◽

Product Placement ◽

User Profiling ◽

Web Data ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

Web Based ◽

Network Engineering ◽

Key Issues

Online Social Network (OSN) applications are used every day by millions of people, and have impacts on the society, economy and lifestyle. They also accelerate the development, or the adoption, of new technologies, for instance to support new mobile paradigms. Besides, OSNs are an important building block of the Web 2.0, thus offering new services, such as product placement, advertising and user profiling. Hence, OSNs are valuable frameworks, contributing to the technological pool of the Internet itself. Their attitude of shifting an individual life into a digital space makes OSNs interesting targets for attacks, to disclose personal details, and to force human securities through digital insecurities. In order to be effective, OSN platforms must be properly engineered, also by having privacy and security protection as strict design constraints. To this aim, it is of crucial importance investigating potential new behaviors, Web-based technologies, traffic patterns and innovative security policies. In this perspective, this chapter discusses the state-of-the-art in the engineering of OSNs infrastructures, the key issues, and the research actions needed to effectively advance in the social network engineering for secure Web data and services.

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A Survey of Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networks

10.19107/cybercon.2014.08 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Constantin SPÂNU

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Network Security ◽

Social Networking ◽

Online Social Networks ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Identity Theft ◽

Privacy And Security ◽

Security Issues ◽

Privacy Issues

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.

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