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Exploratory Study On Awareness About Risk Of Cyber-Crime Among The Older Adults
Abstract
With increasing use of internet, it is important to secure our valuable and confidential data, but the concept of cyber awareness is still new in India, with the slow pace of adaptation of new technical training and exposure. Amidst the aim of Digital Inclusion, and digital empowerment with the UPI, Digi lockers, Umang and their phenomenal aim to bridge digital gap, digital awareness. People knows how to use technology but do not know how to defend themselves from cyber-attack. The impact of cybercrime among elderly is particularly pronounced with technology and its usage. Elderlies go through emotional shock and financial loss as well. Present study with the use of mixed methodology aims to study awareness about digital media use and find measures for future intervention design for creating programs for generating awareness for efficient use of technology.
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The Digital India mission is a transformation of routine happenings and transactions to be made in digital mode using digital platforms and media. Beside this it"s a well known programme of the Indian Government with a mission so as to empower Indian societies and knowledge economy using digital media and platforms. As the transformation and revolution does not happen in just a moment of time, it requires a time to educate and literate people the trends of technology. Also followed by do"s and don'ts tips in view of using digital media and platforms. While considering the Indian societies and it"s in depth literacy of handling digital data and media is so limited and hence gives rise to be a victims of cyber crimes. Cyber Crimes are the forgery made using computer, networked devices that lead to committing fraud, stealing identities or violating privacy. In this regard, the Cyber Security branch which deals is a system that protects devices from digital attacks. It protects data from theft and damage. There is an immense need for cyber security awareness and it would be a great movement of Digital literacy towards making and transforming Digital India.
New technologies are rapidly changing our ways of communication, and also the art of teaching, as well as extending ways of learning. The dramatic growth of Internet usage has changed the lives of millions of people around the globe during the last decade. For students and teachers, the Internet is becoming an increasingly important part of the educational process. In addition, a new kind of multimedia approach is making the Web available not just in the classroom, but in the textbook as well. This study is based on an online survey conducted at a Turkish University to obtain student views about intensity of Internet use, reasons for using the Internet, impact of the Internet on student life, via the Internet, web-based lecture notes, exercises, an electronic discussion panel and an internal course email communication system and their future plans about web-based learning. The sample was drawn from different faculties of Marmara University in Turkey. 744 students answered online survey, but after extraction 720 survey results were evaluated by SPSS. On the evaluation process, frequency and percentage graphs were sketched the results were compared with cross-tables. The results indicate that in the future the profile of education will be changed, mostly the students will access to Internet and take their courses via Internet. The young generation is exposed to Internet at very early ages and this will rapidly increase Internet usage in the near future. Sending/receiving e-mail topped the list in sample followed by research for school-related work. Approximately fifty percent of students believe that Internet access at home improves their grade-point-averages (GPAs).
Present day data innovation empowers the assortment and capacity of a lot of individual information. While these exercises without a doubt give monetary advantages, it has demonstrated difficult to keep information totally secure against criminal abuse. Information uncovered by breaks persevere as a security and protection danger for Internet clients. Notwithstanding this, accepted procedures for how organizations ought to react to penetrates, or how to capably deal with information after it is spilled. Review information recommend that in 2006 personality hoodlums acquired about 61 billion of every 2006 (Schreft 2007).
Cybercrime is a kind of crime that happens in "cyberspace", that is, happens in the world of computer and the Internet. Although many people have a limited knowledge of "cybercrime", this kind of crime has the serious potential for severe impact on our lives and society, because our society is becoming an information society, full of information exchange happening in "cyberspace". There studies indicating cybercrime in present scenario, cybercrime and their laws and cybercrime during adolescent. As the Internet, mobile phones, and other computer technologies have flourished, criminals have found ways to use them for old-fashioned goals such as theft, fraud, intimidation, and harassment that's why cybercrime is becoming even more serious. Elderly is that vulnerable group who has been deprieved from any information regarding latest technologies and innovation especially in the world of computers and internet . The purpose of the present study is to assess the knowledge of cybercrime among elderly.
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to survey the status of information security awareness among college students in order to develop effective information security awareness training (ISAT).
Design/methodology/approach
– Based on a review of the literature and theoretical standpoints as well as the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-50 report, the author developed a questionnaire to investigate the attitudes toward information security awareness of undergraduate and graduate students in a business college at a mid-sized university in New England. Based on that survey and the previous literature, suggestions for more effective ISAT are provided.
Findings
– College students understand the importance and the need for ISAT but many of them do not participate in it. However, security topics that are not commonly covered by any installed (or built-in) programs or web sites have a significant relationship with information security awareness. It seems that students learned security concepts piecemeal from variety of sources.
Practical implications
– Universities can assess their ISAT for students based on the findings of this study.
Originality/value
– If any universities want to improve their current ISAT, or establish it, the findings of this study offer some guidelines.
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