Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks: Optimization Perspectives

2011 ◽  
pp. 483-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Ding ◽  
Hongjie Du ◽  
Weili Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Security And Privacy

scholarly journals Privacy and Security Issues in Online Social Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaukat Ali ◽  
Naveed Islam ◽  
Azhar Rauf ◽  
Ikram Din ◽  
Mohsen Guizani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Issue ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Social Sphere

The advent of online social networks (OSN) has transformed a common passive reader into a content contributor. It has allowed users to share information and exchange opinions, and also express themselves in online virtual communities to interact with other users of similar interests. However, OSN have turned the social sphere of users into the commercial sphere. This should create a privacy and security issue for OSN users. OSN service providers collect the private and sensitive data of their customers that can be misused by data collectors, third parties, or by unauthorized users. In this paper, common security and privacy issues are explained along with recommendations to OSN users to protect themselves from these issues whenever they use social media.

Access Control Models for Online Social Networks

2014 ◽  
pp. 451-484
Author(s):  
Rula Sayaf ◽  
Dave Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Access Control Models ◽  
Control Models ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
High Level

Access control is one of the crucial aspects in information systems security. Authorizing access to resources is a fundamental process to limit potential privacy violations and protect users. The nature of personal data in online social networks (OSNs) requires a high-level of security and privacy protection. Recently, OSN-specific access control models (ACMs) have been proposed to address the particular structure, functionality and the underlying privacy issues of OSNs. In this survey chapter, the essential aspects of access control and review the fundamental classical ACMs are introduced. The specific OSNs features and review the main categories of OSN-specific ACMs are highlighted. Within each category, the most prominent ACMs and their underlying mechanisms that contribute enhancing privacy of OSNs are surveyed. Toward the end, more advanced issues of access control in OSNs are discussed. Throughout the discussion, different models and highlight open problems are contrasted. Based on these problems, the chapter is concluded by proposing requirements for future ACMs.

A Secure and Privacy-Preserving Approach to Protect User Data across Cloud based Online Social Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 560-585
Author(s):  
Neelu khare ◽  
Kumaran U.
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
User Data ◽  
Trapdoor Function

The tremendous growth of social networking systems enables the active participation of a wide variety of users. This has led to an increased probability of security and privacy concerns. In order to solve the issue, the article defines a secure and privacy-preserving approach to protect user data across Cloud-based online social networks. The proposed approach models social networks as a directed graph, such that a user can share sensitive information with other users only if there exists a directed edge from one user to another. The connectivity between data users data is efficiently shared using an attribute-based encryption (ABE) with different data access levels. The proposed ABE technique makes use of a trapdoor function to re-encrypt the data without the use of proxy re-encryption techniques. Experimental evaluation states that the proposed approach provides comparatively better results than the existing techniques.

scholarly journals Access Control Models for Online Social Networks

2013 ◽  
pp. 32-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rula Sayaf ◽  
Dave Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Access Control Models ◽  
Control Models ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
High Level

Access control is one of the crucial aspects in information systems security. Authorizing access to resources is a fundamental process to limit potential privacy violations and protect users. The nature of personal data in online social networks (OSNs) requires a high-level of security and privacy protection. Recently, OSN-specific access control models (ACMs) have been proposed to address the particular structure, functionality and the underlying privacy issues of OSNs. In this survey chapter, the essential aspects of access control and review the fundamental classical ACMs are introduced. The specific OSNs features and review the main categories of OSN-specific ACMs are highlighted. Within each category, the most prominent ACMs and their underlying mechanisms that contribute enhancing privacy of OSNs are surveyed. Toward the end, more advanced issues of access control in OSNs are discussed. Throughout the discussion, different models and highlight open problems are contrasted. Based on these problems, the chapter is concluded by proposing requirements for future ACMs.

scholarly journals Security and Privacy in Online Social Networks: A Survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. e3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudarshan Kudlur Satyanarayana ◽  
Keshav Sood ◽  
Yuan Tao ◽  
Shui Yu
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Security And Privacy

scholarly journals Online social networks security and privacy: comprehensive review and analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankit Kumar Jain ◽  
Somya Ranjan Sahoo ◽  
Jyoti Kaubiyal
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Privacy Threats ◽  
Shared Information ◽  
Personal Content ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
Open Issues

AbstractWith fast-growing technology, online social networks (OSNs) have exploded in popularity over the past few years. The pivotal reason behind this phenomenon happens to be the ability of OSNs to provide a platform for users to connect with their family, friends, and colleagues. The information shared in social network and media spreads very fast, almost instantaneously which makes it attractive for attackers to gain information. Secrecy and surety of OSNs need to be inquired from various positions. There are numerous security and privacy issues related to the user’s shared information especially when a user uploads personal content such as photos, videos, and audios. The attacker can maliciously use shared information for illegitimate purposes. The risks are even higher if children are targeted. To address these issues, this paper presents a thorough review of different security and privacy threats and existing solutions that can provide security to social network users. We have also discussed OSN attacks on various OSN web applications by citing some statistics reports. In addition to this, we have discussed numerous defensive approaches to OSN security. Finally, this survey discusses open issues, challenges, and relevant security guidelines to achieve trustworthiness in online social networks.

scholarly journals WhatsTrust: A Trust Management System for WhatsApp

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2190
Author(s):  
Fatimah Almuzaini ◽  
Sarah Alromaih ◽  
Alhanoof Althnian ◽  
Heba Kurdi
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Management System ◽  
Trust Management ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Trust Management System

Online communication platforms face security and privacy challenges, especially in broad ecosystems, such as online social networks, where users are unfamiliar with each other. Consequently, employing trust management systems is crucial to ensuring the trustworthiness of participants, and thus, the content they share in the network. WhatsApp is one of the most popular message-based online social networks with over one billion users worldwide. Therefore, it is considered an attractive platform for cybercriminals who spread malware to gain unauthorized access to users’ accounts to steal their data or corrupt the system. None of the few trust management systems proposed in the online social network literature have considered WhatsApp as a use case. To this end, this paper introduces WhatsTrust, a trust management system for WhatsApp that evaluates the trustworthiness of users. A trust value accompanies each message to help the receiver make an informed decision regarding how to deal with the message. WhatsTrust is extensively evaluated through a strictly controlled empirical evaluation framework with two well-established trust management systems, namely EigenTrust and trust network analysis with subjective logic (TNA-SL) algorithms, as benchmarks. The experimental results demonstrate WhatsTrust’s dominance with respect to the success rate and execution time.

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