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The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms

The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms

Mohammad Alaa Hussain Al-Hamami
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466665835|ISBN10: 1466665831|EISBN13: 9781466665842
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6583-5.ch020
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Al-Hamami, Mohammad Alaa Hussain. "The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms." Handbook of Research on Threat Detection and Countermeasures in Network Security, edited by Alaa Hussein Al-Hamami and Ghossoon M. Waleed al-Saadoon, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 364-380. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6583-5.ch020

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Al-Hamami, M. A. (2015). The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms. In A. Al-Hamami & G. Waleed al-Saadoon (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Threat Detection and Countermeasures in Network Security (pp. 364-380). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6583-5.ch020

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Al-Hamami, Mohammad Alaa Hussain. "The Security Impacts on Social Media Platforms." In Handbook of Research on Threat Detection and Countermeasures in Network Security, edited by Alaa Hussein Al-Hamami and Ghossoon M. Waleed al-Saadoon, 364-380. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6583-5.ch020

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Abstract

Because of its importance, social media became a main target in cyber war and for criminals as well. The attacker can gain a lot of valued information from social media. This chapter will discuss the security impacts on social media and their effects on individuals, companies, and governments. This chapter, also will explain risks of using Internet, the importance of social media for attackers, what could go wrong in social media, examples of methods used by attackers, why attackers success in their attacks, social media problems from a legal point of view, social media security environment, general security model for social media web sites, data that could be mined, points of attack, security defenses against attacks, methods of security attacks, reasons of attacking social media, social media programming flaws, social media security strategy and policy, social media privacy and governments, social media security new trends, and the best practice in social media.

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