Cyber Crime, Security & Human Psychology: Internet Addiction, Literacy on Cyber Crime and Security

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ABSTRACT

The word “cybercrime” itself saying it’s a crime. In India as well as in a world it’s a business now i.e. to trap the people using fraud mail, phone call, social sites and many more. Because of only bad psychology, they are trapping people. On it we have to provide proper education on cyber-crime and security. We have to spread awareness in society. We always use “Precaution is always better than cure” using same thing we have to take more precaution. In simple way we can say that cybercrime is unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both. [1] This paper illustrates and focuses on cybercrime, its impact on society, types of threats, and cyber security and Human Psychology.

INTRODUCTION

Basically word “Information technology” showing Information with Technology. If any new thing then it will relate with its positive and negative shades. Same way cyber is not an exception. In regular life we are taking precaution same way we have to take precaution for cyber world i.e. security so we can use anti-virus, firewalls and different digital equipment’s for our computer or mobile. Information technology has eased out almost every humanized action.[2] Human is using internet facility and its access is also easy to everyone. In India person is using internet from IT background, non IT background, literate, non-literate, educated, uneducated. But we do not know how to handle security, cyber-crime and how to face it if we are victim. For it we have to spread awareness in a security.

Now a day’s Internet is addiction to all and we are finding in youngsters and teenager. Internet addiction might include an extreme fondness for pornography, online relationships, online gambling, online games and some non-essential activities.[3] Because of non-literacy, non IT background and uneducated people are fall victim to illegal activities like pirated files downloading, downloading illegal software[3] and simple they don’t know sign out or log out option. They are directly closing the window. Some skilled humans might fall in such activity and they are violating the law. If our psychology is good then we will do such malicious work.

INTERNET ADDICTION

Are you playing games on internet is excess? Are you compulsively shopping online? Cannot stop checking Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp and like such social media? Are you surfing daily? Is your excessive computer use interfering with your daily life? If your answer is yes for any question then you may be suffering from Internet Addition Disorder, also commonly referred to as Compulsive Internet Use (CIU), Problematic Internet Use (PIU), or disorder. Originally debated as a “real thing,” it was satirically theorized as a disorder in 1995 by Dr. Ivan Goldberg, MD who compared its original model to pathological gambling.[4] We are psychologically engaged with internet. It’s harmful to us. We are isolating our family and doing our work. Person is living in virtual fantasy world and trying to connect with real life human.[3]

CYBER CRIME

Like any crime if we are doing any crime with computer, digitally by internet or electronically i.e. any criminal activity where a network, computer, mobile or electronic machine is target and we are making wrong activity.

There are many types of cybercrimes which are following:

Denial-of-service [5]
Cyber stalking [5]
Phishing scams [5]
Fraud and identity theft[6]
Malicious and Malware code[7]
Email Harassment
Financial crimes
Selling illegal articles
Spoofing via E-mail

IMPACT ON SOCIETY

Simply, we can say i.e. loss of anything e.g. Personal data loss, Money loss and etc. it’s a disturbance or interrupt to human with smooth life. It is breaking vulnerability, availability and confidentiality of our data.There has been an increased clamping down on cyber-piracy related to the film and music works.[8] This is serious issue to down a business. It is said that the next war is cyber war.

After demonetization in India, Cyber-crime rate in India was increased. Post-demonetization of the Rs. 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, a majority of banks, mobile applications and e-wallets have been targeted by scamsters,” said PavanDuggal, a supreme court advocate and an expert in cyber law.[9] “Cybercrime has grown to an alarming extent since note ban,” said Pawan Duggal, cyber expert and Supreme Court lawyer.[10] More than 27,000 cybercrimes were reported in first half 2017, according to data released by the information and technology ministry. The figure was 50,362 for the entire 2016. If the 2017 data were extrapolated for a year, it would be an almost 10% increase in cybercrime, highest in recent years. The average jump in the past three years stands below 1.5%.[11]

LITARACY ON CYBER CRIME

According to me in India less literacy in cyber-crime. We want to spread awareness in society because if any person is doing such activity then he or she doesn’t know we are doing cyber-crime or we are doing against the rule. If any person is doing such crime and it works then possibly he is serious criminal and his interest will also increase. He gets stuck into crime. But if we provide proper education, awareness or psychological treatment on the cyber-crimes then at least we can minimize the crime. We must aware them on cyber laws and about its act.

CYBER SECURITY

We are always maintaining security everywhere in our general life same way if we are using computers, mobiles or laptops, etc. then we have to protect or maintain the data from the unauthorized access, attacks, and vulnerabilities delivered via the Internet by cyber criminals. Because of less literacy about cyber crime and security, we are not maintaining the security properly.

Prevention tips for cyber crime:

Install licensed copy of Operating System.
Install licensed copy of antivirus.
Read the fine print on website privacy policies.[12]
Keep your software updated.[13]
Talk to your children about the internet.[13]
Review financial statements regularly.[14]
Please sign-out or log-out your account.
Keep your firewall up-to-date.[14]
Maintain strong password and different password for every account.
Change your password regularly at least once in a month.
Don’t reply to unfamiliar emails.
12. Update your browsers regularly.
Don’t share your personal information via email, social sites or phones, etc.
While using any website please check weather website connection is secured or not.
Turn off or log out your computer when not in use.

CONCLUSION

We must take precaution of our self. We have to handle unlawful activities effectively. We must provide awareness in the society on internet use so we can change the psychology of user and disinclinethem. We need to increase cyber literacy. We have to follow rule. i.e. “Safety and Security First on Cyber”

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