Thursday, December 12, 2019

Social Impact on Cyber Crimes

Question: Discuss about the Social Impact on Cyber Crimes. Answer: Introduction Society has an important role to guide people in proper way. Cyber criminals take full benefits of anonymity, secrecy as well as interconnectedness, which are provided by internet (Patton et al. 2014). In addition, internet becomes most essential medium for people in completing any types of tasks and entertainment. Thus, attacking through online is the major way to access data from the users and lead them to be victimized in several ways (Wall, 2015). Hacking leads to accessing of confidential data and credentials. On the other hand, through providing child abusive materials help a class of people to fulfill their wishes and mislead society to get some benefits. Moreover, it helps to gain additional money. Along with these, there are no strict laws preset for cyber crimes that lead people to do cyber crimes. Therefore, it becomes a great challenge for people to create awareness not to be associated with cyber crimes. To identify the interests for getting associated with cyber crime by a large number of people To address the roles of the Government and agencies in implying cyber crime laws To identify the role and impact of society on cyber crimes Recommendations People and entire society need to be aware in preventing to get associated with cyber crimes. In addition, they need to be very conscious in using internet. Along with these, it is required to take some steps like installing anti-virus, firewall and parental control in their systems that will help children not to be victimized by cyber crimes. References Wall, D. S. (2015). The Internet as a conduit for criminal activity. Patton, D. U., Hong, J. S., Ranney, M., Patel, S., Kelley, C., Eschmann, R., Washington, T. (2014). Social media as a vector for youth violence: A review of the literature.Computers in Human Behavior,35, 548-553.

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