A Comprehensive Study of Privacy and Security Risk Awareness Among Mobile Internet Users for Social Networks Sites in Malaysia
In Malaysia, the rate of mobile internet usage is very competitive rapidly growth among the Malaysian community, especially in social networking sites. Most of the mobile internet’s users use the social networking sites as a platform to expand their social activity such as communication between other countries, purchase online, sharing the information each other’s and for business activities. However, the level of privacy and security risk awareness among mobile users in Malaysia is still at a minimum level and does not understand the risk rate of invasion of privacy and information security on social networking sites. The aims of this research paper will investigate the attacks of privacy and security risk on social networking sites towards mobile internet users in Malaysia. In additional, this paper also identify several types of intrusion occurs in social networking sites such as privacy breach, passive attack and active attack. This research explains how to overcome privacy and security attacks via social networking sites for instance Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram and YouTube. The findings of this study also found that Telegram is the most secure social networking sites to the mobile internet users in Malaysia with the solution their provided the data information of users.