Challenges in protecting personated information in cyber space

Internet has become an important part of society throughout the world and pushed new opportunities in every field like business, social service, entertainment, communication, education, sports. One of the current contributions of Internet is Social media. Numerous social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Pinterest, has emerged. The threats among different media have massively increased that might lead to significant financial losses as hacker stole account information and breach security to relocate money to their account or loss of reputation etc. Effects of threats vary considerably from affect integrity or confidentiality of data to complete system. Cyber intrusions and attacks are unauthorized access to networks. There are several techniques to deal with privacy and security issues. This paper summarizes some of the techniques and issues related to cyber privacy.