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Abstract: Today's world is unimaginable without online social networks. Nowadays, millions of people connect with their friends and families by sharing their personal information with the help of different forms of social media. Sometimes, individuals face different types of issues while maintaining the multimedia contents like, audios, videos, photos because it is difficult to maintain the security and privacy of these multimedia contents uploaded on a daily basis. In fact, sometimes personal or sensitive information could get viral if that leaks out even unintentionally. Any leaked out content can be shared and made a topic of popular talk all over the world within few seconds with the help of the social networking sites. In the setting of Internet of Things (IoT) that would connect millions of devices, such contents could be shared from anywhere anytime. Considering such a setting, in this work, we investigate the key security and privacy concerns faced by individuals who use different social networking sites differently for different reasons. We also discuss the current state-of-the-art defense mechanisms that can bring somewhat long-term solutions to tackling these threats.
Keywords: Cyber, Internet, Network, Security, Social, Threat.
1. Introduction
Social Networking Service (SNS) offers the online platform for creating friendship with various types of people who may share a common interest, background, or may be interested in creating a real relationship. The opportunity to make new friends and expand the friend circles was never easier before than what is seen today. Now, friendship can transcend national boundaries, all via online communications. Someone sitting at his desk or even lying on the bed can chat, video chat, share files and various types of information just by some clicking and tapping on the electronic handheld devices. The entire setting of IoT (Internet of Things) would facilitate the expansion of SNS even at a greater scale.
SNS offers its users the key feature of data sharing where the users are free to share their photos, videos, blogs, writings, files, etc. with each other. Among various SNS platforms, Facebook and Twitter have the most of the users today, as these got relatively more popularity in terms of ease of communication among the users. Throughout the recent years, billions of people all over the globe are using these...