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The number of users of the online social networks like facebook, twitter, google, linkedIn are going on increasing tremendously. Similarly the time spend by each user on such online social networks (OSN) is also increasing. These things clearly indicate that the popularity of these OSN is increasing like a wildfire. These OSN provide a very efficient platform for the user to establish contacts with others. These users are having frequent communication with each other. So the adversaries find the OSN as a soft target to attack easily and spread it to the large number of users in less time. In this paper we consider some of such threats to OSN as well countermeasures to some of these threats so as to make the OSN as well as the user secure in the digital world.
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Devmane, M.A., Rana, N.K. (2013). Security Issues of Online Social Networks. In: Unnikrishnan, S., Surve, S., Bhoir, D. (eds) Advances in Computing, Communication, and Control. ICAC3 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36321-4_69
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