A Survey on Social Networks Privacy: attacks and defenses

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become popular between people. Thus they become potential channels for attackers toaccess to large amount of information. Therefore accessing data equals to user privacy breach. In this paper we survey social networksattacks. We define attacks and their affects in OSNs. We try to describe attacks that more important and common in SNs. Also we presentexisting detection and defense mechanisms against these harmful attacks.

Keywords:

Social networks attacks , Sybil , Social networks privacy