Impact of Cyber Crime on Society

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The technological advancements have had a profound effect on society. It has revolutionized the quality of life and has resulted in several amenities which earlier were thought as impossible. For example, an individual, living in New Delhi, is able to book an airline ticket from London to New York, with the click of a mouse button. No one would have thought of this facility some 40 years ago.


Despite all these paraphernalia provided by technological advancements, danger in the form of cybercrime is generated exponentially due to the fact that when it comes to cyber, things operate in virtual mode. Thus, we have cyber criminals who steal the information such as credit card details or they deface the official website of government to create communal and social disturbance sometimes resulting in communal riots. Not only the resort to these cheap measures, they black mail gullible users (who are searching for jobs) on social websites such as linked in and post fake appointment letters with the purpose of extracting money from them.

Cyber Criminals have social media for the following reasons:-

1. Increase in usage of social media over smart phones.

2. The vast transition from emails to social media.

3. Social media is becoming an Ideal place for Crime.

4. Social Media Addiction

5. Booming Social media popularity

Thus, in a nutshell cybercrime is here to stay and will increase substantially in future as dependency is bound to increase.