Cyber Awareness(Ver. 1)Stand in the middle of a crowded street and throw a stone at any random person and most likely you end up hitting a software engineer, programmer or just about anyone who can be associated with computers. This society comprising of our “computer loving fanatics”, find excel the greatest invention of mankind and you can see their mouths watering, just at the name of google or working for any other giant tech firm. The IT sector is booming by leaps and bounds, “CS” being the most sought after course from undergraduates, mobile computing and app developing becoming the “new cool”, I guess you get the drift. This software dominated, “tech-oriented” mindset of people has achieved new heights, thanks to our “Indian parent society” who find it perfectly normal to mercilessly push their kids into this new field, even if they don’t want to. One word is all it takes to change everything and justifying the entire scenario – job. job opportunities make the people picture well settled, fat package, sitting in the deep of Silicon Valley, life.
Knowledge is power and with power comes responsibility. Sadly, some people find it rather normal and a fun thing to peep into other people’s personal life and kind a “exposing”, infiltration and misuse of information. I just defined hacking i.e., breaking into other people’s lives which is a terrible consequence of this world changing “invention”. Let’s take it to next level and talk about money embezzlement and “stealing” from online bank accounts. Even smuggling is a computer controlled malpractice, currently. You may find online nuisance creators who try to avenge people by using computer as the medium. Companies offer six digit pay cheques to counter this affect being called “ethical hacking”. Many scams and scandals have occurred in the past it proving just one point – computer having infinite potential can be used both for constructive and destructive purpose. |
Cyber SafetyWe shop online. We work online. We play online. We live online. As our lives increasingly depend on digital services, the need to protect our information from being maliciously disrupted or misused is becoming more crucial. Information technology has forced us to rethink a simple
motion of privacy into more complex theories that recognizes both the benefits and risk of commenting all manner of information. If we care about our privacy then we should give all the control of access to personal information to the individual . But mot corporate entities resist this motion as information about the users has become primary commodity, boosting the fortunes like Google and face book. But now it’s high time that the people take stand against this innovation of privacy. Through we loved it for the countless benefits; it is today threatened by its vulture ability to information leakage. we need to work with each other to build our less a secure future. In tech we trust…… |
Cyber SecurityIn today’s world network outages data compromised by hackers, computer viruses and other incidents affect our lives in ways that range from inconvenient to life treating. As the number of mobile users, digital applications and data network increases, so do the opportunities of explosion. Cyber security means computer security. If focus on protecting computers, programs, network and data from unauthorised access.Government , military , financial institution ,hospitals ,cooperating and other business collect , process and store a great deal of confident information on computers and transits that data across network to the computers.With growing volume of cyber attacks on going
attention is required to protect sensitive business and personal information as well as safeguard nation security.This technology is a great gift for all but there aresome exceptions that have a sick mentality of talking things granted . Making them correct seems difficult because they just want to do what they wish for … so it is better to spread awareness about cyber security across the globe. |