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2 April-8 April )-Chapter 13-Forum Search forum M- 104 OL-20 18WI-N I , nces Chapter 13 - Forum Choose a type of cybercrime (a list can be found here) and explain what is involved, in terms of how it works and the impact. You should provide examples of cases that have been in the news, to illustrate your answers. What recommendations can you identify for how your chosen type of cybercrime could be reduced? Postings must be completed by 11:55 PM of the last day of this course week to receive participation ratings. This forum allows each person to start one discussion topic. Add a new discussion topic (There are no discussion topics yet in this forum) ^ ds) 2018-04-02

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Recent Days we can find lot of cybercrimes around the world. This is mainly due to usage of old software’s which are vulnerable for hacking. The most recent incident which led to major data theft is attack of ransomware in many countries where hackers had gained access to many people systems and demanded BTC’s in return to unlock their own system.

These sort of attacks can be stopped by updating our Anti-virus software’s up to date and upgrading our OS continuously whenever there is a security fix to it.

We should also take necessary steps while connecting to public network in order to prevent data theft over network by using vpn’s or just avoid public networks.

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