Open AccessCybercrime and Security in Nepal: The Need for Two-Factor Authentication in Social Media
Author(s) -
Chuda Bahadur Roka
Publication year - 2017
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2350-8752
pISSN - 2350-8922
DOI - 10.3126/ctbijis.v5i2.18436
Subject(s) - cybercrime , the internet , internet privacy , population , computer security , internet users , internet access , authentication (law) , political science , computer science , world wide web , sociology , demography
History of using computers is not long enough in Nepal. It was started in around 1995, but it got easier for us to access to using computers after 2000. We had no easy access to telephone and internet even before 2006 due to the Maoist Insurgency. In 2006, the users of Internet were 1.1% of the total population of Nepal, which reached around 17.2% at the end of 2016. With this rapid increment of internet users, risk of misuse such as cybercrime has increased through the use of internet. This paper thus will describe in detail about the cybercrime and security and authenticity related issues.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5(2) 2017: 31-36