Overview of OSNs and Their Impacts on Users
Brij Bhooshan Gupta, Somya Ranjan Sahoo · 2021
This chapter focuses on providing a thorough account of the most obvious and treacherous vulnerabilities that are affecting the social network platforms and user credentials worldwide. Online social network (OSN) services are “web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system”, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. OSN service providers provide various social networking services and some additional interfaces to their users for information sharing, interaction, and content sharing with other users on the same social network platform. The increasing number of users on OSNs invites attackers to engage in some malicious activities. The chapter provides a comprehensive detail regarding the various usages of OSNs based on different requirements and some of the harmful vulnerabilities.