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This article surveys the current state of security issues and available defense mechanisms regarding popular online social networks. It covers a wide variety of attacks and the corresponding defense mechanisms, if available. The authors organize these attacks into four categories - privacy breaches, viral marketing, network structural attacks, and malware attacks - and focus primarily on privacy concerns. They offer an in-depth discussion of each category and analyze the connections among the different security issues involved.
Published in:
Internet Computing, IEEE
(Volume:15
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: July-Aug. 2011
- Page(s):
- 56 - 63
- ISSN :
- 1089-7801
- INSPEC Accession Number:
- 12093112
- Digital Object Identifier :
- 10.1109/MIC.2011.50
- Product Type:
- Journals & Magazines
- Date of Publication :
- 05 April 2011
- Date of Current Version :
- 30 June 2011
- Issue Date :
- July-Aug. 2011
- Sponsored by :
- IEEE Computer Society
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