I read in some news article that some hacker has tried to hack open The Royal Navy’s website due to which the website was brought offline by the concerned authorities though there was not any damage; it is a matter to be worried about. Hacking or Cyber crimes are becoming more prevalent in our society.
Cyber crime has created havoc all around the world. It encompasses any criminal act dealing with computers and networks called hacking. Moreover, it includes traditional crimes conducted through the Internet. Hate crimes, telemarketing and Internet fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts are considered to be cyber crimes when the illegal activities are committed through the use of a computer and the Internet. It can be committed mostly by hacking a program code by either writing it or modifying it. Experts have warned that the threat of cybercrime is rising sharply. It is a high time to call for a new system to tackle well-organised gangs of cybercriminals.
Online theft costs $1 trillion a year and the number of attacks is rising sharply in addition; many people still do not know how to protect themselves. The internet was already vulnerable, and now when it has become the integral part of our society's central nervous system, the whole economy could be attacked. The past year had seen more vulnerabilities, more cybercrime, more malicious software than ever before, more than had been seen in the past few years combined.
Societies today have recourse to a number of ways to combat cyber crimes like:
· By raising awareness in terms of computers and internet.
· By the ways of protecting oneself.
· By building safe technologies.
· By framing such regulations that places the onus on Internet service providers to prove their innocence if the connections provided by them are misused by the users.
This way hopefully someday we may have a safe and cybercrime free society.
Read more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/davos/7862549.stm
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cyber_crime.html
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