We all can see that social media at present has developed very popularly everywhere. These social networking sites allow
zillions of people to communicate with their friends located in different states and countries without any barriers. Confidentiality and
safety on the online social network has become their main concern over the recent years. All though we have all the security strategies,
awareness strategies, standards, and devices at present, people still face some unusual kind of risks or danger whenever sensitive
information is shared online. The sudden boom in the Social media applications by its abundant users, has bought the attackers a
different method of invasion opportunities for disclosing all the private information, for the virus management strategy facilities like
firewall, Intrusion methods for Prevention, antimalware, and Data leakage methods of prevention. As its result, this paper tells us about
the safety framework to shield the users by securing them by providing knowledge to counterattack the threats occurring due to Social
networking sites. We will also be discussing about all the different kinds of crimes on the social media and provide methods and
strategies to diminish the risks faced by the social media users.
Published In:IJCSN Journal Volume 9, Issue 2
Date of Publication : April 2020
Pages : 61-70
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Divya V :
Currently is a Master's student at B.M.S College of
Engineering, Information Science department. Divya received her
Bachelor's degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2018.. Her area
of interest is in Network Security, Cloud security, Image Processing and
Cyber Security system.
Radhika K R :
is a professor at B.M.S College of Engineering. She has an
experience of 23 years in teaching a wide area of subjects in Information
Science Department at BMSCE. She has 40+ publications in various
reputed journal. She is a senior member of IEEE. Her area of interests is
network security, data mining, cloud security.
Intrusion Prevention System, Social Networks Services ,Intrusion Prevention System, Personal Digital Assistants,
Firewall, online social network
Within this survey paper we have studied and discussed
about Social network and its threats and how they have
impacted in all our lives by connecting zillions of users all
over the world by which is a platform allowing users to
explore ones interests, pictures, videotapes, video call ,
chat online with their digital friends without any distance
barrier. Although, having all facilities would lead to
dangerous cyber security risks. Moreover, we have
discussed about all the major threats happing and divided
the threats into three categories describing three classes of
threats: Social media threats, Multimedia content threats,
and Traditional threats, that, we examined and discussed
about and current plans and protocols for providing safety
for Social network operators. In this paper we provide
kinds of threats, attack, prevention strategies, and other
precautions while using social media.
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