Cyber Criminals And The Internet - 1461 Words

Abstract It is an open fact that Internet has brought a tremendous changes in the human lifestyle. Just sitting in front of a computer with internet connected he/she can know what is happening around the world and just with one click he can make all his work done. Most of the today’s world class business works on the internet. But this benefit can be enjoyed only if the internet users adopt safe online practices. Cyber criminals are the one who use online resources to steal your personal information which tend to lose of money and reputation. Never think that the money just comes from corporations, banks or wealthy people around the world. Individual online users like you and me are also targets for them. As long as we are†¦show more content†¦Some of these techniques are phishing, Sending Spam emails, creating pop-ups that force you to open them etc. And the second formula includes they try to identify the patches in the Operating system, software’s etc. and try to take the advantage of the patches in the software and try to insert the same harmful program into the user’s computer which also provides the access of the computer to the cybercriminal. Once the cyber attacker gets access of user computer he/she can look at sensitive information on the user’s computer. For example there is an Android patch called â€Å"Stage fright†. The medium of transmission for this is a video message. The user need not click or open the video to see what it is. The hangout in the video itself process the video and provides the access of user’s phone to hackers. Most of the 90% mobile phones including Samsung, LG, OnePlus, and Sony etc. have been vulnerable to this attack. Even though google effort to patch the attack by releasing two software update couldn’t help to remove the virus completely. This is how the severity a virus will be. The best way to be safe of this attacks is to keep on updating the updates and patches released by the company. One more formula now a days include