What is Cyber Security and How to Avoid Cyber Crime?
Hello friends, today's era is called the modern era because in today's time the world has made so much progress in the field of technology, which was difficult to even imagine. In the age of technology, internet and computer are being used in more quantity everywhere. In today's time, most of the work is done through the Internet, whether it is a government or private company, even money transactions or any kind of data exchange. And all the devices of the consumer like computers, mobiles, laptops etc. are connected on the Internet, at which level the Internet is being used all over the world and millions of people are using it every day, so in such a situation It is very important that attention should also be paid to the security of the user. Because as technology is increasing, crime is also increasing and crime is being carried out through Hi-teach technology.
To commit these crimes, no type of weapon is required, rather they can sit at one place and steal anything with the help of computer, internet, etc. device. Like stealing money from bank accounts or stealing data of someone's website and this theft is called hacking in computer language. If told in simple language, all the crimes committed by hacking other's site or computer are called cybercrime. So today, through this article, we will tell you what is cyber security? What are the types of cyber attacks and what are the benefits of cyber security?
What is Cyber Security?
Cyber security is used to protect the consumer from cybercrime. Cyber security is made up of two words cyber and security, so let us first understand the meaning of cyber and security.
Cyber means – whatever is the information related to internet, network, information, application, data, and computer etc., we call it cyber.
Security: - Security means security and it protects related to system security, network security, and application and information security. To strengthen cyber security, hardware and software data is created through the Internet so that any type of data can not be stolen and everyone's files, documents, etc., can be kept safe. At present, cyber security is being done to prevent cybercrime all over the world. There are experts in computer and internet for cyber security and cyber security is done through them. The crime committed by computers and social sites is called cybercrime in the language of law. It is a crime that attempts to access any person's personal information, business related information or anything by using things like computer or internet.
What are the types of cyber crimes?
Virus: - Crime criminals send some such software to your mobile or computer, laptop etc. device. Due to which viruses, Trojan horses, worms etc. have been found. It is sent to sabotage computers and mobiles and to steal personal information like photos, videos etc.
Cyber: - Using or threatening someone on social media platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, etc., is called cyber hooliganism.
Fishing: – Phishing is a social engineer attack in the language of cybercrime. Which is used by anyone to get login, credit card, debit card information.
Hacking: - Under this, stealing someone's personal information such as a user's name or password and then changing it is called hacking and using any person's computer or mobile illegally without informing is called hacking.
Bank Fraud Call: - In this you get fake email, call or SMS and you feel as if it has come from your bank. In this, you are asked for important things like your ATM or Credit card number, Email-ID, Password, OTP, CVV, etc. You can also submit all the documents by clicking
How to avoid cybercrime?
By adopting the following tips, you can also avoid cybercrime:-
1. If you are chatting on any platform like email, messenger, etc., then read the message sent by any unknown person carefully and do not share any kind of your personal information as well as if there is any attached file. Or if there is a link, do not open it by clicking on it by mistake.
2. While searching the web, you should not use a website that asks for your personal information, you should use any search engine for any kind of information.
3. Whenever you have to do money transactions online, keep in mind that you must see the lock symbol on that site, this tells you that whatever information you are sharing is secure and for this it is encrypted.
To see that on has been used, you can see the URL on the site that it contains htpps://.
4. Be careful while shopping online and before looking at any kind of payment information, do a little check whether this site is secure or not and for this, definitely check the trustmark, McAfee Secure.
5. Do not use short passwords in your important places, although they are easy to remember but it is very easy for hackers to break these short passwords, so always use strong passwords because it keeps your account safe. Take abs@7 as an example. That is, it includes alphabets, numbers, and symbols etc.
6. Try not to share any of your personal information like Debit Card Number, ATM Number, Aadhar Card etc. online in any kind of information and be careful while downloading any link and application etc.
7. Avoid any online scheme like money winning or gift winning scheme.
How and where to report online fraud?
Cyber crime is increasing in high quantity in India but people are unable to do anything about them but now you have no need to worry because now you can file a complaint against crime crime and for this now you have to go to any police station. You can also do it online, a website named www.cybercrime.gov.in has been launched by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to report cybercrime. If you file a report through this website, then your report is sent to the nearest cyber office, so that your complaint is resolved in a short time. So let us know from the option given below how to file a complaint online:-
1. First of all, open the website on any search engine like Google.com.
2. After this you will get to see many options in the homepage, in which you have to choose the option to report according to you like if you this complaint is related to a child or a woman then you choose the first option otherwise by clicking on the second option File a complaint Accept and then click on report and track
3. After that you will have to write your state, name, mobile number, then OTP will come in your phone, as soon as you write the report page will open in front of you.
4. In this you have to give information related to your complaint like :-
Incident details In this, you have to write the things related to your crime and select the category like crime said WhatsApp, Facebook, email, etc. You have to choose one of the options.
Suspect Details In this option, you have to tell about the criminal person who has cheated with you such as the name of the criminal person, any ID, and if you have any photo of him then you can also upload it.
Complaint Details Under this, you will have to fill your details like your name, home address, date of birth, father's name, email id, etc. and also upload a photo of yourself.
5. After this, as soon as you click on save, all the details of your complaint will be revealed in front of you, which you can read completely and if the filled information is correct, then you have to click on I agree and click on the button of Confirm and Submit .
6. Now your complaint will be registered. After this you get the mobile number and this number is also sent to your number and email id, so that you can get the information related to your complaint by the given number.