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Cyber Crime –
Paying the Price of Technology
Computer networking becomes an ever-increasing part of our
existence, and we pay for such advancements.
There is an age-old saying that everything in life comes with a
price tag. Take the example of telecommunications, which has taken
giant leaps recently. Computers and the internet have become
accessible to the majority of people worldwide and have become an
integral part of how we live, communicate and do business. The
advancement of information technology has increased connectivity,
information dissemination and accessibility, work efficiency and
productivity, and it has also brought with it the menacing
side-effect of superior technology – cyber crime.
The most alarming part of all cyber crime is that it can engulf
the whole world in a matter of seconds. The proficiency with which
hackers are committing these impossible-to-catch cyber crimes has
left the world of information technology users in a stunned and
shocked state. The threat it poses is massive as is its expanse
and coverage. Defense, finance, aviation, space technology and
many more vital pockets of the governments of nearly all countries
of the world are almost at the mercy of these hackers whose
activities go unabated for one simple reason: there are not enough
laws to punish such crimes or criminals who commit them. This
tremendous gap in the legal administration has left most business
operations almost at the mercy of these unscrupulous hackers.
Businesses are now as vulnerable as never before, all because of
cyber crime.
Perhaps the only way one can safeguard one’s business against
cyber crime is preventive precaution such as firewalls and spyware
tools. While this seems to be the only way available right now,
unfortunately it is not yet fool-proof. Hackers can easily break
through any network security system, which makes information
stored vulnerable. When this information is of national or
international significance, the government agency is nearly held
at ransom if the information is leaked. The great achievement of
cyber crime is that it knows no national or international
geographical boundaries. The ease of breaking through critical
computer networks are making several political, defense and other
classified information accessible to the hackers. Several of these
hacks occur with big monetary gains being planned as the final
outcome, when hackers sell various strategic information related
to one country to an opponent country for money.
One of the reasons why cyber crime goes unabated is because of the
difficulty to track and nab the criminals. Usually operating in
large groups, they could be located anywhere in the world and be
operating from any remote corner of the globe. This makes it
extremely easy for them to hoodwink the arms of law and other
security enforcement agencies. The hackers who access information
about one country could be physically located in another country
which is on the other side of the globe.
To control or eliminate cyber crime, the government and other
national and international security agencies should sit together
and chalk a legal framework and plan of action which can make
slipping away by the criminals a near impossibility. Spyware tools
exist to help monitor and prevent cyber crime, but still have
limitations. |
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