Beware of cyber criminals! These nefarious people may live beside you, event at your office and home. Cyber crime is one of buzzwords after the rise of web based applications. Experts warned long before cyber criminals will be united at the net to conduct their info-tech sabotages. Special IT knowledge may inspire them to invade computers of others and valuable information will be destroyed or licked out by such programmers who acquired mastery over programming.
However, without special IT knowledge a simple computer user can be a worst ever cyber criminal. S/he can delete you from the cyberspace and make your status vulnerable to the surfers. Just few weeks ago one of my junior friends who spends much of his time at facebook, he found someone of his office changed his facebook profile when he went to canteen without logging out his facebook account. Vulgar words were posted at his profile that was read by his over three hundred friends. He checked the records of office server and identified the colleague who changed the profile.
Hacking is a pleasure for some people like eavesdropping talks, peeping through the windows of others, seeing secretly purses of women, voyeurism etc. They are not considered as criminals involved in serious crime, unconsciously they are victims of own malicious instincts and just for pleasure and inquisitiveness they invade passwords and security of others.
Today it became so difficult to go out of room without signing off our e-mail addresses, facebook, blogs etc, even computers cannot be opened to all because your own people can be a threat to your digital life. It does not a matter whether you are belong to an advanced society or under privilege society and it does not a headache if you live in the western world or not. Every body can be a hacker or cyber criminal at any moment.
To crack down on hackers you will get many software available at the CD shops. Programmers are busy for designing internet and PC security software. Security breaking is their subject of study and they build protective cyber shield as if crackers cannot invade the digital life. However, you are not free from hackers or cyber criminals who are closely associated with you. Breaking of the PC security is going on at every moment alarmingly.
Hacking is a crime and hackers are supposed to be punished like bank robbers in the developed countries. But connotation of hacking is not purely negative. People are using the word 'hacker' mistakenly; even computer experts are using it differently. An illegal intruder in one's computer security system should be called cracker.
Most browsers of the intimated digital world do not understand so far how the PC users are helpless in front of computers. In fact, consciousness of the issue is out of their knowledge. Social networking sites are the rendezvous for hackers where a simple account holder can be a worst hacker if s/he has a clever mind. With malicious knowledge they manipulate children, women and simple computer users to get passwords. Many psychological tricks are popping up from their minds to invade the privacy. Technology often is ruled by subjects of non-science.
IT security experts sometimes called 'white hat hackers' who are appointed to maintain security of PCs. The trained hackers will be high paid staffs of companies and banks. Still computer security firms are not efficient at tracing out 'black hat hackers' and often they fail to crack down on them. So if you need to fight against super intelligent crackers, you have to assign 'white hat hackers' who are hacking geniuses.
Hacking cannot be only prevented by developing security systems and software, rather to make you feel free with your computer we should address cyber ethical issues. People should practice and learn entering systems of others is indecent and crimes. Why don't people think without permission touching someone's computer is indecent act? No hesitation works in some people minds to open and use friends and colleagues' computers. Generally they are not aware of the privacy issues and often think breaking privacy is one of the funs.
A lot of surfers do not think they are safe in the cyber world. Security concern and cyber fears force them to open pseudo e-mail addresses for chat and even they open accounts of social networking sites with hiding identity. They think disclosing themselves with posting photos and files may be a reason for their harassment. So it is good to be netizens in a hidden identity.
Many of surfers think their postings, blogs, personal website etc are being traced by hackers, law enforcing agencies, enemies etc. So avid cyber citizens are very concern on security and privacy issues. Usually they do not want commercial web sites using their browsing habits to spread their marketing strategies, they like to post an opinion to an online forum without worrying that it could be traced by web based marketing people. Besides hassles from online marketing people scammers are active and they are developing tricks to deceive the surfers.
Surfers are glued to bogs, social networking sites, checking and replaying e-mails. But security threats from either professional hackers or amateur cyber criminals can destroy their joy of surfing. This issue should be solved by ethical practices in operating computers. Now from early age kids are going into cyberspace and learning programming. So that age is suitable for adjusting with ethical matters regarding computer intruding and security issues. Computer etiquette and decency should be taught before using a computer.
Caption- Social networking sites like Facebook are places for some hackers.
Source:
The Independent
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