Most of the people misconceive that hacking means “law breaking” which is NOT TRUE. Actually the media has sensationalist this thing and given it a negative term. Hacking is the art of problem solving by using the technical skills of a person. But at the end it depends upon that person that whether he uses his skill for a good purpose like finding holes in network of any company or something and helping them or for bad purpose like stealing credit card details and other confidential data. So now a days due to the technological development the hacking attacks have increased tremendously , So it has become necessity even for general public so as to protect them-self from such hacking attacks.
Almost 90% of damage can be stopped if we know a little bit about computers and internet security. We must know some basic things like what is phishing and using this how data and credit card details are stolen very easily. We need to know how necessary it is to have an anti virus, I have seen many people who do online transaction though they have millions of Trojans and viruses in their computer. It is the time for each one of us that how can we become computer secure. We must know where to report cyber attacks , we need to know how to protect ourself from such thefts and data lose.
And as the technology increases the types and intensity of such hacking attacks also increases , so it is very crucial for us to be updated about such things and just like reading newspaper daily we should at-least give some time towards such things also . As it is very necessary to read and gain some knowledge of such things , doing this will not only increase our knowledge but we will also be protected by such hacking attacks. For more information go to Hackfact.com
