How to Recognize and Avoid Cybercrime in Australia

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How to Recognize and Avoid Cybercrime in Australia
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Cybersecurity refers to the practice of offering protection to the computer, programs, mobile
devices, servers, electronic systems and even networks from unauthorized and malicious digital
attacks. For any successful cybersecurity, there have to be multiple protection layers that cut
across programs, data, computers or networks that one wants to keep safe from any malicious
access. Cybersecurity is threatened by cyber-attack that involves the gathering of information to
motivate political interests (Abomhara 2015, p. 70), cybercrimes that mainly target systems for
monetary gain or just for disruption and cyber terror which mainly causes panic through
undermining of electronic systems. That is why the Australian government as putting in place
different organizations for identifying these cybercrimes and mitigate or avoid them in the best
ways possible so as to ensure the social and economic lives of people accessing the internet is
comfortable and safe in this digital age.
The Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network (ACORN) is putting in a lot of effort to
track down any unauthorized access of information by identifying the scope and prevalence of
these cybercrimes and then strategizing on the most appropriate ways of stopping these crimes
(Cross, Richards & Smith 2016, p. 11). The Australian Federal Police (AFP) reported that
cybercriminals were on the rise and that they were classified as criminally motivated. The
Australian government has come up with ways of tracking and recognizing these cybercrimes
and ways of avoiding such crimes from happening.
Cybercrimes are recognized by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) which is spending
day and night just to ensure that Australia remains the safest country for an online connection
(Broadhurst 2017, p. 228). They are able to recognize urgent payroll requests which are a factor
of cybercrime. It is recognized that the cybercriminals try to send email requests that are fake.

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They usually want a change of somebody’s bank account details for the purpose of stealing from
them. Different organizations in Australia have received such fraud email and reported to the
Australian Cyber Security Centre (Minnaar 2014, p. 138).
Through the PayPal email requests that are fake, the security Centre of Australia is able to
recognize cybercrime. The cybercriminals advice the Australians falsely telling them that PayPal
accounts have violated the rules of PayPal. The recipient of that particular malicious email is
then lured into sharing his/ her personal details which are the key to theft by the cybercriminals.
The Australian Cyber Security Centre is able to recognize these and deal with it in a proper way.
For any defense that is effective against cybercrimes, the people, the processes and the
technology must all be complementary to one another in an organization. The people must be
well conversant and adhere to essential principles of data security. One needs to be aware of
email attachments, to choose strong passwords that cannot be easily bypassed and also to always
do data backup. Australian organizations need a framework of ways of dealing with attempted
cyber-attacks or successful ones. A good framework helps an individual or organization to detect
and identify cyber-attack, respond to cyber threats, system protection and also get back on their
toes from a successful cyber-attack (Choo 2014, p. 89). Technology plays an important role in
cybersecurity since it provides organizations with security tools for protection against cyber-
attacks. Three technology entities that must be protected are endpoint devices, networks, and
cloud. They are protected by Domain Name System filtering, firewalls, antivirus, email security
solution and protection of malware.
To avoid cybercrime in Australia, the government has raised awareness of cybercrimes to the
people. Since Australia has highly adopted technology in its economic prosperity, it will
continually be the best and attractive target of cybercriminals in these advancing digital age