Affiliated to: MAKAUT, College Code: 340
Cybercrime is a criminal offence that occurs digitally with
the internet's help. This crime mainly occurs either in groups or in
individuals. This offence mainly creates mental stress among people. To know
this offence better, there are several types of cybercrimes, which will make a
clear conception and generate awareness of getting rid of these crimes.
The first cybercrime is “hacking”, which is considered an offence
that violates the personal or confidential information from the computer. The
second cybercrime is “Copyright Infringement” which is stealing someone’s
protected work without permission and publishing it by their name. The third
cybercrime is “Money Laundering” which is the illegal transfer of money by
individuals through foreign banks to other financial sectors. The next
cybercrime is Cyber extortion, hacking someone’s email ID. The last cybercrime
is Cyberterrorism, which mainly focuses on hacking government systems to destroy
the world by using political objectives through the internet.
Two years ago, i.e., Coronavirus Pandemic there was a lot of
scope for cybercriminals to exploit people by the method of “phishing”, and “hacking”
to extort money. After this incident, “Cybersecurity” has been implemented to
seize cybercrimes worldwide.
Cybersecurity is a practice that mainly focuses on protecting
personal/ professional information from malware and so on. The concept of
Cybersecurity has primarily focused on protecting the digital environment from malware.
Now, let's discuss its importance. Cybersecurity plays an
important role in implementing numerous modern techniques to secure the most
sensitive information. Apart from that, this system has been established not
only in the governmental sector but also in the private sector to protect businesses
against cyber criminals. So far as the challenges are concerned, Cybersecurity faces
enormous challenges from cybercriminals. The present cybercriminal activities
are not the same as they used to occur in the older days. In this present
scenario, all cybercriminals have been implementing numerous tricks to extort
money. Apart from that, ample usage of virtual lives can cause a huge risk of
cybercrimes.
From all the above facts, it is clear that the role of
cybersecurity has been the main part of numerous organizations, be it in the
government or private. Secondly, all the readers can be very well acquainted
with the dominion role, taken by the cybercriminals to extort money as well as
numerous confidential information. Apart from that, several news, related to cybercrimes
have spread awareness among people to be alarmed. Secondly, the concept of cybersecurity
has mainly concentrated on relieving the stress of cybercriminal extortion
among people by enhancing new technologies and so on.