Expansion of electronic transaction raised the need for more confidentiality and data protection against cybercrime. Cybercrime is defined as a criminal activity that targets internet users. Cybercriminals who commit cybercrime usually aim to make money through this action, but they could also tend to damage computers for reasons other than profit. Cybercriminals could be individuals or organizations. Some cybercriminals are highly technically skilled, well organized, and use advanced techniques. Information technology security specialists have reported a significant increase in cybercrime since early 2001. Cybercrime is expanding because the information technology has become a fundamental part of people's lives. Expansion of cybercrime raised the need to Cybersecurity and information security. Cybersecurity is defined as the practice of protecting information and data from outside sources on the Internet. Information security is defined as the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized use, assess, modification or removal. In this paper, statistics of Cybercrime has been analyzed from 2016 to the First Half of 2020, beside a summarization of cybersecurity and information security, projecting the difference between cybersecurity and knowledge of security.
Published In:IJCSN Journal Volume 9, Issue 5
Date of Publication : October 2020
Pages : 252-261
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Dr. Fatma Abdalla Mabrouk Khiralla :
She worked Lecturer in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology - Shaqra University, working now as Assistant Professor on Faculty of Science and Arts Unizah, Department of Computer Science Qassim. She has obtained Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Computer Science National University of Rabat Sudan in 2017. She has obtained also Master of Computer Science and Information from Faculty of Engineering and Technology - University of Gezira in 2003. Moreover, she has obtained Bachelor Computer Science from College of Computer Sudan University College for Girls. She has published Book is Database Hiding On Tag Web Using Steganography by Genetic Algorithm , LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing,15 July 2019.she has 4 Published Papers in the International Journal of Innovations & Advance in Computer Science IJIACS.
Cybersecurity-Information Security- Data Science -Cybercrime- Social Engineering- Artificial Intelligence-Internet of Things
This paper recommends that awareness of cybersecurity and information security is very important when using the web. When analyzing the attacks between 2016 and the beginning of 2020, it was found that the attacks were carried out through mistakes and holes that could have been solved if there were more consideration and knowledge about these holes and mistakes.
It is essential to be careful when using sensitive information, and it is obligatory to secure data from electronic attacks and identify the holes through which the attackers get through to get to sensitive data. It is necessary to be aware of the strategies utilized by cybercriminals during cyberattack.It was clearly found that social engineering was clear within the 2020 cyberattack.
There must be more awareness of how to search appropriately, download programs, and more attention when employing a smart device, especially internet of thing techniques, because it was found the internet of thing techniques was the most important device to expand cybercrime in the last few years.
