In INDIA we are moving one step towards Digital India and cashless
economy. But a big critical question mark is on security standard accepted to
prevent cyber crime. According to data collected by KPMG, cybercrimes are being
increased 3 times in last 5 years.
The Cybercrime Survey Reports
2015 released on Monday by KPMG in INDIA, is an attempt to
analyses preparedness of organizations in INDIA to deal with cybercrime and
incident by unearthing its modus operandi and its extent, besides highlighting
preventive measures to deal with this menace.
Snapshot of cybercrime
FACTS OF CYBERCRIME SURVEY
REPORTS 2015
1. In INDIA, in last 5 years, there is 3 times increment in
cybercrimes, more than 32000 crime case have been filed and more than 20000
people have been arrested.
2. In last 3 years more than 96000 websites have been hacked.
3. According to report of KPMG, more than 72% of brand organizations
have faced cyber-attack last year, and 63% of them suffered with a big financial
loss.
4. If we take a look on the list of 44 countries, which have global
risk factor of cyber-attack, INDIA is on 11th place. Most risky
countries facing cybercrime are USA and China.
5. There is about 90 websites hacked on an average per day basis in
INDIA.
Hacked Websites (Year Basis)
2013—28481 2014—32323 2015—27205 2016—8065 (Till March 2016)
6. The main target of hackers are Financial & Insurance sector
(72%), Pharmaceutics (44%), Oil and Gas Services (37%) IT & Telecom (23%),
Government Organizations (19%) and Consumer Goods (10%).
In INDIA, in affairs of cybercrime, The Information Technology Act 2000
and IT Act (Modified) 2008 are applied. In some affairs, Indian
Penal Code-IPC, Copyright Act 1957, The Companies Act, and even POTA
(Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance) can be applied. There is no separate
policies of Government of INDIA for Online fraud of shopping portals.
HOW TO HANDLE THE CHALLENGE AS
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
1. According to Gartner (an American research and advisory firm), till
2020 there will be more than 60% Online business firms may be face to face with
cyber-attack globally, because mostly business changing in digital environment.
There will be an extremely increased pressure on IT firms to manage and
maintain security standard.
2. As per an estimation, between 2017 to 2021, expenditure on cyber
security will be 68 lacs crores globally.
HOW TO INVESTIGATE FOR HACK
1. If our account didn’t login even we are providing right credentials.
This means that account has hacked, sometime we can get message regarding this.
2. If we got an alert that someone login to account from an unknown
place.
3. We are getting some mysterious article, photos or posted videos,
which we never share on our Social Media Accounts.
4. If there is a sudden flood of spam mails on mail ids or on Social
Account, or we are following some strangers in large numbers.
WHAT TO DO IF I GOT HACKED
1. If account is open then change password first. Password should be
strong.
2. If you are not able to change the password then request to support
team. You will get a link for resetting password on your registered mail id.
PREVENTION METHODS
1. It will be better to use Chrome browser because it recognise
phishing pages. If you are using Mozilla then upgrade it to version 51.0 or
later, because Mozilla has recently upgraded some privacy features and security
patches.
2. Don’t click on unwanted links and ignore such mails which instruct
to open it on new tab.
3. Don’t reuse old passwords and change them frequently.
4. Do not used short characters in passwords. It should be mixed with
capital and small letters, numeric and special characters.
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