The target topic for today speaks "Cyber Security". As consumers and customers of goods and services, we are exploited in more than a number of ways. In order to hinder the growth of cyber crimes - Team Satark is here to put the facts and figures to enlarge the awareness and save the consumers.
The latest NCRB (NATIONAL CRIME RECORD BUREAU) publication of 2017 indicates an increasing incidence of cybercrime in India. The reliability and widespread utilization of the Internet has changed the way of living dramatically. In 2017 India witnessed one case of cybercrime at every 10 minutes.
WHAT ARE CYBER CRIMES?
As consumers you have to be aware of the disastrous and deadly nature of anything that provides you something at all. For instance, the market provides you good and technology provides you services.
Either way a consumer is unsafe and vulnerable to fall prey to the bad world.
Says Wikipedia- A cyber crime or a computer oriented crime is a crime that involves a computer or a network.
These offences are committed against consumers of the services that the technology offers.
MAJOR CYBER CRIMES-
1) Hacking
2) Cyber Stalking
3) Online scams
4)Child abuse and child pornography
5) Online identity theft
Cyber crimes and digital spying are the top threat to national security, eclipsing even terrorism. While the validation of individual attacks stand a great threat, another way to spread the root of terrorism, danger and death takes places via cybercrimes.
WHAT IS CYBER SECURITY?
A body of technological processes and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs, and data from cyber attacks.
The immeasurable importance of Cyber Security-
It is essential for families and parents to protect the children and family members from online fraud.
In terms of financial security, it is crucial to secure our financial information that can affect our personal financial status.
Central, state and local governments hold large amount of data and confidential records online in digital form that becomes primary target for a cyber attack.
CONCLUSION-
India holds the third position in the statistics of using the internet and even at being on a one to one with cyber crimes. The aim of this article was to highlight the consequences we can face as consumers of internet. We hope this article was able to brief you about the technological scams and their way of exploiting your privacy.
We will be coming with ways to protect yourself from Cyber Crimes in the next article soon.
Till then…
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STAY SATARK
Manpreet
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