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More than ever, users’ security and confidential data is at the risk of exploitation due to the ever-burgeoning cybercrimes and newer vulnerabilities exposed or discovered every alternate day. With increased connectivity via social networks, there is also an increased risk to data confidentiality and user privacy, never known before. The networks store a huge amount of private user data mostly related to interactions online. This sensitive information is usually meant for a very few people to see and kept protected from the outside world or unauthorized access via various security techniques. This study investigates the online conduct of users and perceived benefits of using online social networks. This study features security issues and potential attacks on different parts of the user’s security, tends to provide a stable decentralized solution to control, manage and authenticate user’s personal data and thus ensures privacy eliminating the need of third party.
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Virmani, C., Choudhary, T. (2020). Blockchain-Based Social Network Infrastructure. In: Kapur, P.K., Singh, O., Khatri, S.K., Verma, A.K. (eds) Strategic System Assurance and Business Analytics. Asset Analytics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3647-2_37
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