An Analysis on Privacy Risks, Attacks and Issues in Mobile Social Networks

Abstract

A current trend for social networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook, My Space, is to create mobile application to give their users instant and real-time access from their mobile devices. Mobile Social Networks have become more popular. So it is important to examine the privacy risks, attacks and issues of Mobile Social Networks. In this paper we will make three major contributions. First, we will identify the main privacy risks, attacks and issues in different Mobile Social Network Applications. Second, we will survey or study some of the existing MSN security and privacy mechanisms and approaches. Third, we will make a comparison of these approaches.