Eight Common Cyber Threats

Cyber crimes have increase rapidly over the past years. These cyber hackers send threat to individuals, small businesses, officials and government networks to activate personal information and company's data. Cyber activities can cause great dangers to companies and individual in the future.


According to (www. national crime agency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime),

Consumers:

·         Phishing: is an attempt that hackers use in the form of an email that poses as a legitimate company to acquired personal information.

·         Webcam manager: where criminals takeover you webcam.

·         File hackers: are criminals that hijack files and hold them to ransom.

·         Key loggers: are criminals that monitor and record all keystrokes you type- such as passwords and relay them to other security threats.

·         Screenshot manager: allows hackers to take screenshots of your computer screens.

·         Ad Clicker: allows hackers to direct a victim’s computer to click a specific link.

Business:

·         Hacking: are hobbyists who experiment with programs to maximize performance and attack weaknesses.

·         Distributed Denial of Services (DDOS): is an attack where multiple compromised systems are used to target a single system causing a DOS attack. (www.webopedia.com)

What is Cyber Crimes and ways to protect yourself from it?

According to (2013 Pearson Education, Inc. publishing at Prentice Hall), " Computer crimes are computer based activities violating state, federal or international laws. Cyber Crimes are carried out by the means of the internet."

As new technology keep emerging to enhance our lives and let users communicate with other users in next countries,  hackers keep gaining entry to harm and destroy technology. In order for cyber activities or crimes to decrease, we the users of technology together with tech entities have to play a vital part.

Here are some measures you can take to protect yourself from online criminals or attackers:

First you should create a strong password that consist of eight or more characters with the combination of letters, numbers and symbols.

Secondly always keep private information private such as you full name and date of birth, account numbers and social security numbers as well as other specific information about yourself.

Thirdly,  ensure to protect and lock your computer at all times when they are not fully in use. Also be careful with accessing unknown email address and clicking on free apps which can have hidden viruses and spam contain in it.

The next point is always do business with legitimate vendors or business. Be very careful and ensure that you are handling financial transaction with a reputable business.

Whenever you are using social networking websites always use private settings.

Always report any suspicious activities you encounter with to the law enforcement committee. 

President Obama improvement on Cyber Security

Cyber attacks have always been a very serious threat to the people whether its customers dealing with on-line transactions, businesses both offering, selling or buying on-line products or services. Companies with many servers and very huge databases aimed at storing lots of private user data such as Banks and Government Agencies with high amount of sensitive data and information that can’t afford to ever get compromised. But now cyber crimes have been on the high rise and worst hackers are getting far more sophisticated and now it poses a very serious threat to the White House and the Government of America.

Don’t you think that it’s about time for the Government to take the proper initiative with this issue?

Well according to (eandt.theiet.org/new/2015/feb), it’s said that, “President Barack Obama has held a summit on cyber security and consumer protection with top industry figures such as Apple, Facebook etc to encourage companies to share more information about cyber security threats with the government.” This sounds like a great approach the government is finally taking action and beefing up security with both customers and business while educating them about various security threats is the right way to go when dealing with security concerns.

It also states that most of the companies have sent their top information security executives. The main idea of the president was to bring tech companies, law enforcement, consumer and other entities that specialize in the area to make sure that issues and solutions to the problem handled properly.

Such a good initiative that was took by the president by collaborating with these companies and businesses in a effort to work together to increase or enhance cyber security for business and for the people was a very good approach to solving the cyber threats and other cyber related issues by collaborating and improving their infrastructure by sharing ideas and solutions is a good step the president took.