Introduction

INFORMATION IN THIS CHAPTER

• Overview and Key Learning Points

• Book Audience

• How This Book Is Organized

OVERVIEW AND KEY LEARNING POINTS

What is a social network? Some of you know this already. If you don’t, you are about to find out. This book is going to take you through the seven deadliest social networking attacks. Kinda scary sounding, isn’t it? Enough with the hubbub. Before we start attacking the social networks, we should probably understand what allows them to run.

So, what is the basis behind a social network? It is something called Web 2.0. Maybe you have heard of it, maybe you haven’t – it doesn’t matter. What is Web 2.0? So glad you asked that question.

Well, we know what the Web is: it is the World Wide Web. This ...

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