SECURITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA: AWARNESS OF PHISHING ATTACKS TECHNIQUES AND COUNTER MEASURES

Abstract

As time and technology progresses, the social media security is one of the basic and most important aspects to consider when browsing the internet.Nowadays all people using social media mostly, using social media is widely spread among different age groups to meet several purposes including education, entertainment, or even pursue a research. With the increase of using smartphones and social media, the cyber security threats also increased. The most widely- perpetrated form of social media attacks is phishing; it is used to gather sensitive personal and professional information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, user logins and passwords, as well as other information entered through a web site or online sources. Furthermore, many users of different age groups and mainly the old age people have been exposed to social media security violations most times due to a lack of awareness about phishing attacks and how to address with them. Our paper focuses primarily to make people of all age group aware of exposure to this type of attack while using social media networks. Key Words: Cyber security, Social media, Phishing attack