Fighting Cyber Crime

Crime simply means that someone does something illegal and can then be punished by the law. There are many examples of crimes, one of the most modern forms of crime is cyber crime. All illegal offences which are connected to communicating devices in a network are referred to as cyber crime. The global meaning of cyber crime is where computers are used to facilitate the crime, or the crime is aimed at computers. Cyber crime is otherwise known as computer crime, e-crime, hi-tech crime or electronic crime. Cyber crime is responsible for the economic losses that internet users have been facing lately and can referred to as any internet crime such as the designing viruses, writing malware, cyber stalking, identity theft and various other crimes.

Protection From Cybercrimes

With the cyber crimes on rise, cyber cops and IT experts are all teaming up together in order to protect people from cyber criminals. They help the citizens by making them understand the harms they are susceptible to by being unaware of crimes in the cyber world.

Website Help

So many websites are created over the net to help the people by dispersing more and more info on the crimes in the cyber world. Many instances of real life cyber crimes are explained in these websites which help the citizens to be aware of the cyber crimes.

Awareness

The most prominent part of the defensive measure is to spread the word about cyber crime to internet users. The prime objective of the cyber cops' is to make more and more people aware of the deadly circumstances. As prevention is better than cure, awareness is better than to fall victim to cyber criminals.

The attack methods used by the cyber criminals are becoming more complicated every day. With the spread of awareness about the cyber crime among users, the criminals are left helpless and cannot exploit the people in the cyber world anymore. The cyber cops, IT core teams, and the websites which give information about cyber crimes are always at the service of the citizens and ready to help. The citizens should get together to fight against the cyber crimes, so that the people in the cyber world can get rid of the cyber criminals. Microsoft Security Center director Mike Reavey stated that, "The attacks are getting more complex, and if we want to get ahead of attackers the call is to work together in a community approach."

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Identity theft comes in many forms.

A person\92s identity can be 'borrowed' for the purpose of creating fictional credit cards or a person\92s entire identity can be usurped to the point where they can have difficulty proving that they really are who they claim to be.

Up to 18% of identity theft victims take as long as four years to realize that their identity has been stolen.

There are many ways to protect your personal identity and many steps you can take to prevent your identity from being stolen:

*Never give out unnecessary personal information
*Never provide bank details or social security numbers over the Internet
*Always remain aware of who is standing behind you when you type in your personal credit codes at ATM machines and at supermarket checkout swipe machines.