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The current study sought to review previous
studies in order to identify the most important
security challenges associated with the use of
social media, and to explore the extent to which
there is a relationship between the spread of cybercrime and the increase in social media usage
rates, and to clarify possible national solutions
and procedures to confront cybercrime. The
study used the qualitative approach in data collection and analysis, and a sample of (104) previous studies were selected that were published in four main databases: IEEE, Springer, Google
scholar and Dar AlMandumah during the period from 2015 to 2022, in addition to the official
statistics and reports. The results of the analysis
of previous studies revealed that the most important security challenges associated with the
use of social media is the spread of electronic
crimes of all kinds, and they have been divided into three categories: 1) Traditional challenges; they included spam attack, malware attack,
phishing, identity theft, 2) Recent challenges;
they included cross-site scripting attack, Profile
cloning attack, hijacking, Inference attack, sybil
attack, Clickjacking, de-anonymization attack,
and cyber espionage, 3) Targeted attacks; they
included cyber-bullying, cyber-grooming, and
cyber-stalking. The results also concluded that
social media contributed to the increase in security challenges, and that there is a correlation
between cybercrime and the increase in social
media usage rates. As indicated by the results;
there are three solutions to reduce the social
media»s security challenges and they complement each other as follows: solutions for social
network operators, academic solutions, and national solutions. As for Oman, it has made great
strides in the field of cybersecurity; a number of
measures have been taken to prevent and combat cybercrime. Finally, the study recommended
the security authorities to increase the degree
of security awareness by educating the public
through social media platforms. Also, establishing specialized units to combat cybercrime, such
as the electronic police.
