Security Threats and Dealing with Social Networks

Social networks are very popular in today’s world. Millions of people use various forms of social networks as they allow individuals to connect with friends and family, and share private information. Considering the behavior of users on online social networks, a detailed study of alternative security and privacy threats directed at all users of social media is presented. Furthermore, we focus separately on the different risks that result from sharing multimedia content across a social networking site, and different security techniques, and present how social networks affect user performance in a physical tracking application. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.