ABSTRACT
This chapter illuminates the facts behind numerous forms of attacks triggered by threat agents through exploiting vulnerabilities which has been discussed in Chapter 1. This chapter primarily focuses on the most popular and highly used web application on the internet, i.e. Online Social Networking (OSN) sites. Firstly, we discuss the related statistics on the popularity of social media and the attack incidences on it. Moreover, we have bifurcated social media attacks into major categories. Finally, we spend some time to bring into light the major contributions or approaches that have been proposed by researchers to provide security to users on social media.
