Cyber Crime

Now in modern era science and technology has reaching it’s new peak day by day. It is also advancing man is becoming dependent on internet for all his needs as it gives easy access to gaming, online studying, social networking, online jobs, shopping etc. everything at one place. Apart from other countries, India is also not far where the rate of incidence of cyber crime is increasing day by day. It makes our life easier than before. As people also face the incidences of the Cyber crime. Cyber crime is an illegal activity which involves a series of issues ranging from theft to using your system or IP address as a tool for committing a crime. It can be refers to the use of an electronic device (computer, laptop, etc.) for stealing someone’s data or trying to harm them mentally or physically like Fraud due to credit card, debit card, bank robbery, illegal downloading, child pornography, distribution of viruses using a computer.

There are many types of cyber crime mainly we can say that Cyber Crime are categorized into four different types. These are

The financial crime where they steal the money of user or account holders. Likewise, they also stole data of companies which can lead to financial crimes. Also, transactions are heavily risked because of them. Every year hackers stole lakhs and crores of rupees of businessmen and government. It also includes e-commerce fraud.

The Privacy Crime includes stealing your private data which you do not want to share with the world. It is common nowadays. Moreover, due to it, the people suffer a lot and some even commit suicide because of their data’s misuse.

In hacking they intentional deface a website to cause damage or loss to the public or owner. Apart from that, they destroy or make changes in the existing websites to diminish its value. This is different from ethical hacking, which many organizations use to check their Internet security protection. In hacking, the criminal uses a variety of software to enter a person’s computer and the person may not be aware that his computer is being accessed from a remote location.

Modern-day terrorism has grown way beyond what it was 10-20 years ago. But cyber terrorism is not just related to terrorists or terrorist organizations. But to threat some person or property to the level of creating fear is also Cyber Terrorism.

It can be saved by keeping our system update regularly, use strong and unique password. It cannot be written down on notebook or be disclosed to anyone. Data must be backed and don’t click suspicious links. We should follow the security protocols and other proper method to save us from Cyber crime.

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