Abstract

TACKLING ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK THREATS: PROPOSED SECURITY MEASURES

Abudu A. O. & Sulaimonh. A.

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Abstract Social Network sites are platform where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their lives, using a multimedia mix of personal words, pictures, videos and audio. Also, the users post their personal details for others to see through this various social network sites. Despite all the benefits of SNS, it is observed that attackers still penetrate the user?s information without being authorized. This paper presents the common security threats such as identity theft, information leakage, digital dossier, password theft andidentity cloning faced by the social network users. It proposes how some of these identified threats could be avoided by using stronger authentication techniques like Token and CAPTCHA. It also proposes the means of reducing the rate at which the attackers make use of others information by modifying the default setting of the sites.The proposed authentication technique was evaluated and the result shows that the new technique is stronger. Keywords: Authentication Techniques, Social Network Sites, Token, CAPTCHA

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