A comprehensive review of security threats and solutions for the online social networks industry

The term “cyber threats” refers to the new category of hazards that have emerged with the rapid development and widespread use of computing technologies, as well as our growing reliance on them. This article presents an in-depth study of a variety of security and privacy threats directed at differen...

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Autores principales: Nawaz, Naeem A., Ishaq, Kashif, Farooq, Uzma, Khalil, Amna, Rasheed, Saim, Abid, Adnan, Rosdi, Fadhilah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
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Cryptography
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10280274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37346522
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1143
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Rosdi, Fadhilah
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description The term “cyber threats” refers to the new category of hazards that have emerged with the rapid development and widespread use of computing technologies, as well as our growing reliance on them. This article presents an in-depth study of a variety of security and privacy threats directed at different types of users of social media sites. Furthermore, it focuses on different risks while sharing multimedia content across social networking platforms, and discusses relevant prevention measures and techniques. It also shares methods, tools, and mechanisms for safer usage of online social media platforms, which have been categorized based on their providers including commercial, open source, and academic solutions.
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spelling pubmed-102802742023-06-21 A comprehensive review of security threats and solutions for the online social networks industry Nawaz, Naeem A. Ishaq, Kashif Farooq, Uzma Khalil, Amna Rasheed, Saim Abid, Adnan Rosdi, Fadhilah PeerJ Comput Sci Cryptography The term “cyber threats” refers to the new category of hazards that have emerged with the rapid development and widespread use of computing technologies, as well as our growing reliance on them. This article presents an in-depth study of a variety of security and privacy threats directed at different types of users of social media sites. Furthermore, it focuses on different risks while sharing multimedia content across social networking platforms, and discusses relevant prevention measures and techniques. It also shares methods, tools, and mechanisms for safer usage of online social media platforms, which have been categorized based on their providers including commercial, open source, and academic solutions. PeerJ Inc. 2023-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10280274/ /pubmed/37346522 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1143 Text en ©2022 Nawaz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Computer Science) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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Nawaz, Naeem A.
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Farooq, Uzma
Khalil, Amna
Rasheed, Saim
Abid, Adnan
Rosdi, Fadhilah
A comprehensive review of security threats and solutions for the online social networks industry
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title_full A comprehensive review of security threats and solutions for the online social networks industry
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title_short A comprehensive review of security threats and solutions for the online social networks industry
title_sort comprehensive review of security threats and solutions for the online social networks industry
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37346522
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1143
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