Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention
Since a past decade, social media networking has become an essential part of everyone’s life affecting cultural, economic and social life of the people. According to internetlivestats.com, in March 2019 the Internet users reached 4 168 461 500, i.e., 50.08 % penetration of world population. Accordin...
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| description | Since a past decade, social media networking has become an essential part of everyone’s life affecting cultural, economic and social life of the people. According to internetlivestats.com, in March 2019 the Internet users reached 4 168 461 500, i.e., 50.08 % penetration of world population. According to Statista, in 2019 there are 2.22 billion social media networking users worldwide, i.e., 31 % of global social media networking penetration and it is expected that in 2021 this number will reach 3.02 billion. These social networking sites are attracting users from all walks of life and keeping these users’ data in the cloud. Today’s big challenge is related to an increase in volume, velocity, variety and veracity of data in social media networking, and this leads to creating several concerns, including privacy and security; on the other hand, it also proves as a tool to prevent and investigate cybercrime, if intelligently and smartly handled. The law enforcement agencies are putting their utmost efforts to prevent cybercrime by monitoring communications activities over the Internet. In this paper, the authors discuss recommendations and techniques for preventing cybercrime. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11d1a6a772ef461fb57b5ac18f53c4aa2022-12-21T19:17:05ZengSciendoApplied Computer Systems2255-86912019-05-0124191710.2478/acss-2019-0002acss-2019-0002Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their PreventionSoomro Tariq Rahim0Hussain Mumtaz1College of Computer Science & Information Systems, Institute of Business Management, Karachi, PakistanFreelance programmer, Karachi, PakistanSince a past decade, social media networking has become an essential part of everyone’s life affecting cultural, economic and social life of the people. According to internetlivestats.com, in March 2019 the Internet users reached 4 168 461 500, i.e., 50.08 % penetration of world population. According to Statista, in 2019 there are 2.22 billion social media networking users worldwide, i.e., 31 % of global social media networking penetration and it is expected that in 2021 this number will reach 3.02 billion. These social networking sites are attracting users from all walks of life and keeping these users’ data in the cloud. Today’s big challenge is related to an increase in volume, velocity, variety and veracity of data in social media networking, and this leads to creating several concerns, including privacy and security; on the other hand, it also proves as a tool to prevent and investigate cybercrime, if intelligently and smartly handled. The law enforcement agencies are putting their utmost efforts to prevent cybercrime by monitoring communications activities over the Internet. In this paper, the authors discuss recommendations and techniques for preventing cybercrime.https://doi.org/10.2478/acss-2019-0002cybercrimecybersecuritysocial media |
| spellingShingle | Soomro Tariq Rahim Hussain Mumtaz Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention Applied Computer Systems cybercrime cybersecurity social media |
| title | Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention |
| title_full | Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention |
| title_fullStr | Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention |
| title_short | Social Media-Related Cybercrimes and Techniques for Their Prevention |
| title_sort | social media related cybercrimes and techniques for their prevention |
| topic | cybercrime cybersecurity social media |
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