Social engineering and social networks and their impact on Arab society

Document Type : Original Article

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قسم المکتبات جامعة بنى سويف

Abstract

The present study aims at recognizing to an extreme the Arab community
is aware of how to protect their accounts and ways of penetration (hacking) of
privacy on a general level and focusing on social engineering on particular. In
addition to other available ways of training the digital citizen. The concept of
social engineering (the art of penetrating minds), the significance of social
networks in the Arab world, and the importance of privacy from 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 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.

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