A Study of Cyber Threats in Social Media-Challenges & Remedies

摘要

Social Media is a virtual world made up of individuals or organizations which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interest, and exchange of finance, relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. A cyber threat can be both unintentional and intentional, targeted or non- targeted, and it can come from a variety of sources, including foreign nations engaged in espionage and information warfare, criminals, hackers, virus writers, disgruntled employees and contractors working within an organization. Social networking sites are not only to communicate or interact with other people globally, but also one effective way for business promotion. In this paper, investigation and study of the cyber threats in social networking websites have been done. History of online social websites, classification of their types, kinds of cyber threats, suggested anti-threats strategies and visualization of the future trends of such popular websites have been discussed.