A Survey on Privacy and Security in Online Social Networks
It addresses privacy and security issues for users of online social networks, but it is an incremental survey rather than a novel contribution.
This survey tackles the problem of privacy and security risks in online social networks by providing a taxonomy of attacks and an overview of existing solutions, but it does not present new experimental results or concrete numbers.
Online Social Networks (OSN) are a permanent presence in today's personal and professional lives of a huge segment of the population, with direct consequences to offline activities. Built on a foundation of trust-users connect to other users with common interests or overlapping personal trajectories-online social networks and the associated applications extract an unprecedented volume of personal information. Unsurprisingly, serious privacy and security risks emerged, positioning themselves along two main types of attacks: attacks that exploit the implicit trust embedded in declared social relationships; and attacks that harvest user's personal information for ill-intended use. This article provides an overview of the privacy and security issues that emerged so far in OSNs. We introduce a taxonomy of privacy and security attacks in OSNs, we overview existing solutions to mitigate those attacks, and outline challenges still to overcome.