CYBER CRIMES

CYBER CRIMES:

Q. WHAT DOES CYBER CRIMES BASICALLY MEANS?

ANS.Cyber crime is also called COMPUTER CRIMES. Stealing the identities of the persons.

This is so unethical . This is what ethics tells us about ?. Ethics is doing what is right regardless of what the law says . something you choose to consider when taking action . 

There are different types of cyber crimes..

You all know that even the stolen credit cards can be used to reconstruct the individual identity.

So, now a days cyber crime has been increased much more .

There are a lot of frauds happening in our daily life . Frauds are going like an addiction in our today's world .

Hackers hacks the accounts. In today's words hacking is something due to which many people are affected badly in their daily routine.                                                                                  There was also the case of ransware a very famous case ... the virus which affects the pc and the computers very badly and the computer shuts off and all the data is transferred to the 3rd one . This is one of the famous case in the cyber crimes.

For  ex: In one of the largest data breaches in the history, florida based marketing and data aggregation firm exactis,exposed a data base containing nearly about 340 million individuals records.

You all know that cyber crimes are affecting everyone. There are many online apps and sites where we store our data or we all do the transactions and all the data is stored with the 3rd party and every reach and every data which the 3rd party is having he can take all the information and can hack the data , social accounts ,credit cards , online transactions accounts such as paytm,google pay and other online transactions . It will be easier to hack the account by having all the information .it makes things much more easy for the hackers .

People tend more to disclose more personal information about themselves (EXAMPLE):

• BIRTHDAY
• EMAIL
• ADDRESS
• HOMETOWN
• RELATIONSHIP STATUS IN THEIR NETWORKING SOCIAL PROFILE                                                                                                                                                                          This personal information could be used by fraudstres to steal users identities and posting this information on social media makes it more easier for the people who are doing the fraud to take control on it.                                                                                             

You all know about the truecaller ?

It is the app which tells you about the unknown numbers and from where that number is with the proper name but truecaller discloses the data as well as the identity as when we we login the truecaller then our all the contacts and the data is shared to 3rd party which can affects us very badly.                                                                                                                            

SUGGESSTIONS:

1 PROTECT YOUR DATA

2 SECURE YOUR WIRELESS NETWORK.

3 SECURE YOUR COMPUTERS WITH THE BEST ANTI VIRUSES

4 USE THE STRONG PASSWORDS 

5 USE DIFFERENT USER ID/PASSWORDS COMBINATIONS .