Emergence of Cybercrimes in Online Social Networks

Abstract

The rise of social networking websites has been seen in recent years. Everyone will be spending most of their time on social networking websites such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp. The great advantage that this social networking website offers benefited many of the users. It can help people to promote themselves or their business to gain more popularity and also customers through these social networking websites. There are many cybercrimes that can be identified which are identity theft, hacking, fraud and so on. The emergence of cybercrimes has created an awareness so that the users will know what the common attacks are and how they can be prevented from being lure and being a victim of this attack. This research will discuss about the attacks and how these attacks can be prevented by the users.