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What Measures Can You Take to Protect your PC?
Since the advent of the internet, cybercrime has been on the rise. But it is only in the last few years that it has become a full-blown epidemic. According to a recent report, online banking fraud has increased by an astonishing 132% in the UK. Losses now total 55 million pounds, compared with just 22 million pounds in the previous year.
Why the staggering increase? Believe it or not, the principle reason that cybercrime is on the rise is that consumers are more confident than they’ve ever been when it comes to shopping and paying bills on the internet. That is why internet commerce is on the rise.
Obviously, this confidence is unwarranted. Why then do people continue to believe it, even after they have seen the statistics? And why not protect your PC? Those are more difficult questions to answer. Perhaps it is because they believe that hackers only attack large online businesses and that they don’t waste their time chasing after a few thousand pounds.
Again, this is incorrect. Of the 3.6 million cybercrimes that were reported in 2009, the overwhelming majority of them were committed against ordinary citizens, not huge corporations. The reason for this is simple: Big Business has learned its lesson when it comes to internet security. They have seen huge companies taken down by cybercrime and have they have made the necessary adjustments.
In truth, most websites that are owned by huge corporations are all but impregnable. Not to mention that fact that few hackers have the time, talent, equipment or expertise to crack these sites even if they wanted to; which is why most of them spend their days chasing after average online shoppers for a few hundred pounds.
How can you protect your PC? It is really quite simple. Purchase anti-viral software from a reputable company and make certain that it is current. As incredible as it sounds, most internet crimes happen because people fail to update their anti-virus software. Hackers then use new viruses that the old software does not recognise.