Security and privacy in Social Network

Social networks have become part of our everyday lives as far as personal and business usage is concerned. We use them to keep in touch with friends, family and business partners and also for our self-promotion or promotion of our products. Openness and unlimited extent make social networks interesting not only to their users, but also to cyber criminals. The latter exploit lack of knowledge, recklessness and gullibility of the social networks users who are very likely to become their victims. Warning of the dangers and education about protection in social networks are therefore of great importance. The way and extent of our protection depend mostly on ourselves. The market offers a lot of applications for protection against such dangers. Social networks also present general requirements and instructions which lead us to their safe usega. Legal acts deal with our protectio in certain cases. The dangers that lie in wait for the users of socia networks may be viruses, breaking into our computers and stealing our identity, »phishing« or »pharming«. Usege of social networks often turns into addiction. One of the most popular social networks is Facebook. It has been on the market since 2004, but its popularity and the number of users increase every day. Numerous attacks on Facebook have been witnessed since its establishment, therefore I advise its users to be mistrustful when using it despite its popularity and usefulness. This is the best way to protect themselves as well as their Facebook friends.Spletna socialna omrežja so postala del našega vsakdanjika, tako z vidika osebne, kakor tudi poslovne rabe. Uporabljamo jih zato, da ostanemo v stikih s prijatelji, družino, poslovnimi partnerji, za samo-promocijo ali promocijo svojih produktov. Zaradi odprtosti in brezmejne razsežnosti pa spletna socialna omrežja niso zanimiva samo za uporabnike, temveč tudi za kibernetske kriminalce. Ti izkoriščajo nepoznavanje, lahkomiselnost in naivnost uporabnikov spletnih socialnih omrežij, ki lahko hitro postanemo žrtve tovrstnih storilcev. Zato je pomembno opozarjanje na nevarnosti in izobraževanje o zaščiti v spletnih socialnih omrežjih. Kako in v kolikšni meri se bomo zaščitili, je največ odvisno predvsem od nas samih. Na trgu je veliko programov za zaščito pred nevarnostmi, prav tako nam spletna socialna omrežja predstavljajo splošne pogoje ter navodila, v katerih nas usmerjajo v varno uporabo spletnih socialnih omrežij. Za našo zaščito v težjih primerih pa skrbijo tudi pravni akti. Nevarnosti, ki v spletnih socialnih omrežjih prežijo na nas, so bodisi v obliki virusov, lahko pomenijo vdor v naš račun ter krajo identitete, ribarjenje ali »phishing«, »pharming«, velikokrat pa se uporaba spletnih socialnih omrežij sprevrže v zasvojenost. Eno izmed najbolj priljubljenih spletnih socialnih omrežij se imenuje Facebook, ki je na trgu šele od leta 2004, njegova priljubljenost in število uporabnikov pa iz dneva v dan narašča. V tem času smo bili priča številnim napadom na omenjeno spletno socialno omrežje, zato kljub priljubljenosti in uporabnosti tovrstnega omrežja uporabnikom svetujemo, da se v omrežju obnašamo nekoliko nezaupljivo, saj bomo le tako najbolje zavarovali sebe in tudi svoje Facebook prijatelje