Cyber Crime scenario in India and worldwide
You may not know how and when your personal information can be accessed by someone sitting miles away from you and vandalizing your account just by cracking few codes or through programming. We understand once we try to ‘log in’ into the account and at that time something pop up on the screen showing ‘invalid password’ and your heart skips a beat and we understand there is something wrong.
Keep in mind that harm includes more than just destruction or damage, it also
includes disclosure,access delay, denial of access, fraud, resource waste, resource abuse and loss . Common threats against communication systems security includes denial of service, eavesdropping, impersonation , modifications and so on.
includes disclosure,access delay, denial of access, fraud, resource waste, resource abuse and loss . Common threats against communication systems security includes denial of service, eavesdropping, impersonation , modifications and so on.
Globally cyber risk is of great concern for every enterprises. 42 per cent rank it their top concern , more than natural disasters, terrorism and traditional crime.
In 1990’s hacks and hacking tools explode as the internet makes everything available to everybody. Malicious hacks like “spoofing”, “phishing” continue through the present day. Malware and hacking attacks jumped by 20% -31% approx, from 2010 to 2011, but fell by nearly 30% in both categories in 2012 ( reports by Verizon) .Last year its share of high-profile companies falling to subtle hacking systems, including Adobe, which lost nearly 38 million personal and password records and living social, which lost 150,000 pieces of data.
India has observed a significant increase in attacks against financials and government, with 34% and 43% of them reporting cyber threats and attacks respectively, up from last year’s 15% and 19%, the report revealed.
The industries such as banking and economy, defence, information and energy , healthcare are the core targets of the hackers. The government sector witnessed 136% increase in cyber threats and the financial organizations witnessed a 126% increase.
- 34% of Indian financials reported cyber threats and attacks in 2013 – up from last year’s 15%.
- 43% government organizations reported cyber threats and attacks –up from last year’s 19% .
Cyber crimes has posed a major threat in our social life , the intruders might tamper with the site or they can view the confidential data in your system without our consent. They can also steal your valuable informations like passwords , id’s etc.
Cyber risk is not only limited to social networking sites or global enterprises , it is rather a big threat for the government as well as for the society also. The crimes like cyber trafficking, online gambling, forgery, financial crimes, cyber trespass etc is going viral in the world wide web.
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