Security in Social-Media: Awareness of Phishing Attacks Techniques and Countermeasures

Abstract

As time progresses, the social media security is one of the basic aspects to consider when browsing the internet. Nowadays all people using social media approximately, using social media is widely spread among different age groups nowadays 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 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. Furthermore, many users have been exposed to social media security violations most times due to a lack of awareness about phishing attacks and how to deal with them. Our paper focuses primarily to make people aware of exposure to this type of attack while using social media networks.