Cybersecurity Challenges in Social Media Erdal Ozkaya

3.8
 
Conclusion 
Social media has created a healthy breeding ground for social engineers and that is 
why the vice has grown uncontrollably. This chapter has shed more light on social 
engineering. It has given the lifecycle of social engineering attacks and then explored how 

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social engineering is mediated by social media. The challenges that make it hard for social 
engineering to be detected and also particularly dangerous to an enterprise have been stated. 
Solutions have been given detailing how best social engineering can be handled in an 
organization. These solutions have been evaluated and the only identified challenge is that 
they do not focus on an individual user but rather assume that the user will be in an 
organizational context. 

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Chapter Four: Social Media Threat in Cyberspace 
4.1
 
Preamble 
Social networking sites have drastically changed the ways through which people used 
to interact with others. They have also made changes to people’s professional lives. Today, 
social media platforms play extensive roles on how businesses are conducted. They also 
control the ways through which people communicate with others and also how corporates 
reach out to their customers. However, social media has introduced the world to risks that it 
might not have been prepared for (Workman, 2008). Attackers have proliferated these media 
and have been continuously striking social media users.
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Threats in cyberspace due to social media 
There exists quite a number of threats on social media platforms, and it seems that 
they only keep getting added with time. The following are some of the known threats: