In: Computer Science
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Cyber crime is one of the most rapid growing crime scenes today. The term reffers to intruding into some one's personal accounts, computer system to steal informations or datas, or intrepreting the network and make unwanted actions. I may be targeting the user, user data or a particular device. As the digitalization of things increase, the chanes for attacks also increase with it. Even though technologies are developing and encryption systems are getting stronger, so as the loop holes and capabilities of hackers.
There are several kind of cyber crimes today. The main ones are:
And a lot more. It is essential to keep our data and network from all these type of attacks to save ourself. The idea is to use internet very carefully without clicking and opening every thing on internet. Also if we are hosting a website, make sure we are in a good domain with maimum security and no vulnerabilities are there. Next is to authenticate and encrypt with two step.
One of the biggest data breach in the last decade was happened to Yahoo. About 3 billion user data was stolen. This might be done by intruding to the database through any fine loop hole. We cannot ensure the 100% security of any data, there will be always chances for minute vulnerabilities and attackers may use them. Atleast we can ensure the encryption and authentication are with double protection.