A Review on Social Media Issues and Security Awareness among the users

This paper is reviewing on several issues faced by the users of social media especially users of Facebook and Twitter which are the most popular social media networks based on statistic provided by Statista. Some of the issues that being discussed are information theft and image misused due to no privacy setting set by the users to their social media accounts. The use of social media aggregator will lead to the hackers to easily access to all the Social Medias that are link together. Lack of security awareness among the social media users will exposed them to many cyber-crime activities. Several countermeasures are being discussed such as to improve the privacy setting of the social media, controlling the social media authorisation and increase the security awareness among the social media users. Other actions that can be taken to protect the social media accounts are by disable the connection between the infected accounts with other accounts by changing the registered email information on the unaffected accounts. Changing passwords could help to slowdown the hacker’s activities and the last option that can be considered is by reporting and issues the social network’s customer service.