Today’s world can be easily divided into two parts—one is the real world, and the other is the virtual or online world. Internet has become such an integral part of human progress that from organizations to individual people, they cannot think for a moment without being online, in the digital world, if the internet is stopped for five minutes, the whole world will come to a standstill. Billions of pieces of information or user data are exchanged on the Internet every minute. So it is not without knowing about cyber security.
Jennifer Alam, a cyber security analyst of the country, told Prothom Alo, “Although using the Internet is a daily necessity or habit, people still take it lightly.” Most of the users surf the internet carelessly. As a result, it is easy for cybercriminals to harm users.
Currently, the main target of cyber criminals is to harm or steal information from stars, entrepreneurs and freelancers. By doing this, the hackers benefit and their objectives are fulfilled, said Jennifer Alam. He said that the first and foremost tool to avoid cyber crimes and cyber criminals is to be vigilant and increase cyber awareness knowledge.
Cyber security researcher Ryan Malik said, ‘The first and foremost tool to stay safe in the cyber world is awareness. Also we must be more careful about some things. For example, keeping the operating system of smartphones, computers and used devices updated, not clicking on unknown and suspicious links, keeping backups of important information, not downloading anything other than correct and reliable websites, etc.