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Cyber Crime! Protecting Your Digital Details

Cyber Crime!

Protecting your Digital Details

There has been a lot of coverage recently about “Cyber Crime”, “Cloud Hacking” and “Cyber Theft” but what is it really? How do you get hacked and what can you do to prevent it. This is what I have researched and will share with you so you can make your own mind up as how to protect your Digital Details.

                  I found this easily!, a good definition on wikipedia using the keywords “cyber crime”. I think it covers everything that Cyber-Crime could possible be, but also the whole area of Social Media bullying & harassment which is very concerning! Very little is being done in this dark area of the net. Anyway the definition is as follows -  

Definition - "Offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm to the victim directly or indirectly, using modern telecommunication networks such as Internet (Chat rooms, emails, notice boards and groups) and mobile phones (SMS/MMS)"

(ref - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_crime)

Types of Cyber Crime

Identity Theft - Credit Card Fraud is one of the biggest forms of cyber crime with billions lost globally through identity theft and cloning of credit/debit cards.Cyber attacks on  bank databases to obtain customer account details and then spend their money online without their consent.

  Property Right Theft  - the Music and Film industry has been very badly hit by the development of sites that visitors can download music free and the latest film releases. Copyright Laws are doing little to solve these issues.

  Social Media Bullying/Stalking - The use of social media has really made the world smaller, it is a great communication tool, as most social media networks are free and have great features to offer like adding videos and photos. However, there is a dark side to all of this with Social Media Bullying now a real threat, especially to the younger users as they are less likely to fight back or report abuse. Although all social media channels have some sort of abuse and user blocking policies is still does little to prevent these issues from occurring. The most serious of these cases resulting in a victims suicide.

  Child Solicitation - using online chat rooms to solicit minors, the use and spread of these chat rooms is alarming and the sharing of child pornography on closed internet groups also raised serious issues over the policing of the internet.

  Malware infections - programs or viruses deliberately introduced into a network to disrupt, halt and destroy them, to allow others to gain - Corporate Cyber Security Attacks!

  Hacking - where a persons computer or even cloud storage account is hacked  into and their information taken, these type of digital robberies normally happen where the hacker is operating from a remote location, maybe a different country.

  How much does Cyber crime cost the World - the price tag for all this corruption and theft costs the World about  - $575 billion p/a

           Ways to prevent how you can help yourself! Protecting your Digital Details

Username Password Security - keep in mind most softwares will grade your passwords when setting up accounts so take on their advice!

Security software - make sure you use the latest security software,remember the most expensive does not mean the best, so go to software blogs and reviews to see which is the best for your Laptop, PC Tablet etc.

When providing personal information on any website make sure to read the privacy policy before you proceed to enter any details here is ours http://rhinoshellpro.com/privacy-policy/ . The more you enter the more they store, so the best thing to do is to give no more than what they are looking for.

Beware of scams!! Online offers that look too good to be true usually are. So think before you proceed.

Check your bank account & credit card statements regularly to review all your transactions.

Here is one I also keep in mind, Shreddit! any personal details, bank and card details that are on statements shred them, and if possible burn after reading!! There has been cases of hackers going through peoples bins to get paper statements and then access their accounts using their hacking codes. 

If you you think your gmail was hacked check this link - Gmail Check

If you think your hotmail was hacked check this link - Hotmail Check

Recent Media coverage of Cybercrime

The Latest Cyber crime Attacks!

Snapchat “Snaphacking”  & Snapsave

Russian Hackers spy on NATO and others report from iSight

Chinese Government behind iCloud attack!

Google Hacked 2014

American Military Contractors hacked

Military Xbox gets robbed!!

Download the Latest Trends in Cyber crime PDF

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