Users Awareness of Cyber threats and Consequences in Social Media

Abstract: Year 2013, the year that the world faced one of the most critical whistleblower cases in the last decades. A government that was accused that intercepted personal information of many users. Nowadays people are using the internet, and many provided services such as emailing and social media. There are security principles and standards that are supposed to support users with information security and data safety, are based in human rights provided by law. The level of the security and safety provided is a case that every single user must be aware of it. Plenty of users’ awareness in the internet and the services that they are using is not what it should be. Internet and services such as social media or emailing have instant interaction with Information security of individuals and their personal security as well. The users that are using these services are facing threats and risks, and the business field as well. The law has defined a specific regulation in order to protect the human rights in information privacy and data protection. Social media usage has become a daily communication routine between users who are not informed about the consequences of their usage and what that might bring up. The overall purpose of this study was to warn the users of the internet and social media to be aware of the risk and threats, and to introduce the meaning and the importance of information security by increasing user awareness.