Social engineering and social networks and their impact on the Arab society | ||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||
| Article 4, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2018, Pages 109-128 PDF (859.6 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2018.70338 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maha Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed* | ||
| قسم المکتبات جامعة بنى سويف | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study aims at recognizing to extreme the Arab community is aware of how to protect their personal accounts and ways of penetration (hacking) of privacy on general level and focusing on social engineering on particular. In addition to other available ways of training of the digital citizen. The concept of social engineering (the art of penetrating minds), the significance of of social networks in the Arab world, and the importance of privacy from the point of view of social networks’ users in the Arab world, as well as recognizing ways of social networks penetration and ways of social engineering protection . So we can point out that the Arab community awareness of social engineering is one of its priorities for protecting their accounts in all social networks and the required skills to prevent attacks of this social engineering in all social networks. A sample of 336 individuals was applied to the current study. The study also comes up with the following results: positively, individuals of the academic community succeeded at protecting their personal data automatically and at a high rate. Selection of fake names constitutes half of the academic community ( 53.2%), who use social networks and this is explored by their deny of personal data or by writing fake personal data. In addition to hacking their banking accounts since 6.8% of the individuals were slightly hacked. One of the most common methods of social engineering attacks are spam messages sent by a friend as congratulations (77.1%), followed by 53.2% who are convinced by the significance of programs to be downloaded, the importance of social networks in the Arab world, the importance of privacy from users’ point of view of social networks in the Arab world, as well as the identification of penetrate ways of the social networks and how to be protected from social engineering. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Social networks | ||
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