An Analysis of Security in Social Networks

Social Website Technologies and Their Impact on Society

“…In relation to reducing the risk of electronic offenses, which is the highest risk of using social websites (Luo, Liu, Liu, & Fan, 2009), it is important to understand that attacking information through social websites is much easier than other online methods (Kizza, 2013;Luo, et al, 2009). There are caveats that should be taken into account when using the internet in general and social networking in particular.…”

Social engineering in social networking sites: Affect-based model

“…That is, SNSs are not only useful for information gathering; they also offer cheap and effective means of reaching victims and applying effective tricks [24]. Whether SNSs were used in information gathering or in reaching the victims and lunching the attack, there are three main sources that can be used [25].…”

Privacy Issues in Online Social Networks

“…friends etc. [13].Most of the OSN are designed to make it easy for you to find and connect with others , for this reason the name and profile picture do not have privacy settings. The posts or photo uploading or status update it is possible to control exactly who can see it at the time you create it.…”

“… The Online Social Networks allows user to post their own applications on the OSN which will be accessible by all others. These features are used so many times to perform attack on the OSN [5] [13].…”