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Attacks on Social Media
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35.1 INTRODUCTION
We are hearing about attacks to computer systems, networks, and critical infrastructures almost
daily. More recently, we are also hearing about social networks being attacked. Furthermore, these
social networks are being used to attack computer systems, networks, and critical infrastructures.
Therefore, one of the areas that we can expect to get increasing attention is that of attacks on social
media and the solution to handle such attacks. That is, these social networks are being inltrated
with malware.
Malware is the term used for malicious software. Malicious so