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Literature Discussion: Hacking on Social Media Platforms

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Social media usage has increased rapidly with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. People have engaged in social media in shopping, education, business, and other social activities. As the usage of social networks increased rapidly, both negative and positive impacts affected humans. All this led to illegal activities and social crimes such as password attacks, blackmailing, spyware, phishing, ransomware, hacking, and middleman attack. According to Suciu (2022), 5.4 million Twitter accounts are vulnerable to hackers, which could expose vital user information. This literature mainly discusses the issue of hacking social media platforms, provides solutions to the problem and recommends how to handle hackers in the future. In social media, most of the activities involved involve sharing data, education, business, and information. Numerous people share personal information on media platforms, thus enabling attackers or hackers to tamper with it either externally or internally. Due to Covid-19 physical working places have been changed to online workflow to control the spread of the virus. Therefore the use of social media has increased. Unlike before, hackers mainly use the same information updated to get their targets. Hackers are getting smarter daily; nowadays, they hide their attacks on social media posts (Malik et al., 2016).

Mitigations

For many years social media and other digital platforms have been the main source of information for users. With many misunderstandings and misconceptions about social media information, it played a great role in supporting evidence-based content. During the pandemic, communication frequency increased, and there was minimal secrecy of the information (Malik et al., 2016). People kept posting their daily lives and achievements on social networks, hence increasing hacking cases. To deal with the hacking issue on social media, one needs to keep updating their mobile apps regularly and ensure they have a unique password and email, which shall keep their accounts secure. People should monitor their accounts regularly to check if any suspicious activities are happening. When looking for likes or followers, one should consider the kind of friends they would have. Organizations should embrace the use of internal communication, which considers several factors such as age, cultural diversity, literacy, and beliefs that may positively influence individuals' perception of internal communication (Ecklebe & Loffler, 2021). In an organization, there should be system access management. Each user should have a different login and password to increase security and improve its performance due to a secure environment. Numerous schools have opted to develop innovative and successful methods through which they may conduct performance-based assessments online (Du et al., 2016).

Recommendations

Effective communication and the right education should be directed to the public on how they should be dealing with personal or organizational social networking accounts. Over the last few years, social media has always been the main source of information, and its uses have increased rapidly (Malik et al., 2016). In the future, if a trustworthy and confident interface can be established, such risks may be reduced. The most important step that should be applied to reduce the risk of hacking is the creation of awareness. Users should be trained to avoid security threats and spread awareness via online campaigns, seminars, or events. We are living in a world of advanced technology. Therefore, there is a need for social media users to understand how they can avoid breaching privacy and information leakages. Passwords should not be kept for long because they make the systems to be vulnerable to attacks.

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