According to a statistic published in 2020, the number of social network users has been reaching to 3.6 billion. (Statista, 2020)
This number will increase in 2025 to become 4.41 billion users globally. (Statista, 2020)
Social network security SNS is considered one of the essential elements in the social network applications to prevent the hacker Threats from access to victim devices which may give him more options to save or edit or destroy the data. 22% of social network users have exposed technical threats by different types such as malware threat which considered as the famous threats in social networks ( McAfee, 2020)
REFERENCES:.
Mcafee.com. 2020. How Cybercriminals Target Social Media Accounts | Mcafee. [online] Available at: <https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-gb/security-awareness/cybersecurity/cybercriminal-social-media.html> [Accessed 4 November 2020].
Statista. 2020. Number Of Social Media Users 2025 | Statista. [online] Available at: <https://www.statista.com/statistics/278414/number-of-worldwide-social-network-users/> [Accessed 15 November 2020].
How many of these internet users will you say use social media applications?
ReplyDeleteWhat are some of the security challenges experienced by social media users? It will be good if you can discuss issues like Online Identity Theft, Fake News, Financial Fraud, Revenge crimes e.t.c.