Open AccessA Study on Types of Cyber Crimes and Cyber Attacks Today
Author(s) -
Anushka Alok Lodh,
Chetan Vijaykumar Dalave
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal for research in applied science and engineering technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-9653
DOI - 10.22214/ijraset.2022.40213
Subject(s) - computer security , firewall (physics) , cyber attack , cyber crime , cyber threats , internet privacy , computer science , hacker , password , business , the internet , world wide web , accretion (finance) , schwarzschild radius , finance , charged black hole
With the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the world and deaths worldwide has given a very worse condition to the whole world besides this covid pandemic there is also increase in number of Cyber-crimes and Cyber-attack of different types in the whole world. As Technology is advancing everyday there is a rise in Cyber-crime problem today, however security measures and prevention to protect this technology and the users of the technology is not advancing as quickly. So, the aim of this study is to understand and learn different types of Cybercrimes and Cyberattacks today in the world. It is important to prevent and to put awareness about the types of crimes and attacks. There are some protective procedures such as keep your software Up to date, Using of Anti-Virus Protection and also the use of Firewall, Continuously Changing Passwords and keep it as strong as can be, and also two step or multi step authentication should be done whenever necessary. Keywords: Cyber-crimes, Cyber-attacks, Types of Cyber-crimes, Prevention Measures, Threats