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Comprehensive Social Media Security Analysis & XKeyscore Espionage Technology
Adam Ali.Zare Hudaib
Pages - 97 - 158     |    Revised - 10-07-2014     |    Published - 10-08-2014
Volume - 8   Issue - 4    |    Publication Date - August 2014  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
XKeyscore, Social Media Security, Privacy, TFC, Cyber Threats.
ABSTRACT
Social networks can offer many services to the users for sharing activities events and their ideas. Many attacks can happened to the social networking websites due to trust that have been given by the users. Cyber threats are discussed in this paper. We study the types of cyber threats, classify them and give some suggestions to protect social networking websites of variety of attacks. Moreover, we gave some antithreats strategies with future trends.
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Mr. Adam Ali.Zare Hudaib
Licensed Penetration Tester Certified Ethical Hacker Network Security Defence Research &Troubleshooting CEH , ECSA , LPT , WCNA Poland - Poland
adamhudaib@gmail.com


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