Growing Problem of Hacking and Preventive Measures of Cybercrime

Running head: RESEARCH PAPER 1
Political Science
Student details:
7/31/2019

RESEARCH PAPER 2
In the modern era, various technologies have been used in daily life. In the present time,
the internet is the very common to everyone. The Internet has everything for people. For that
reason, the people are using the internet to a greater extent. It makes the world smaller. Though,
these technologies have also brought a fear of cybercrime. The cybercrime is considered as the
crime where the computers are used for the crimes such as spamming, phishing as well as
hacking. In the following parts, the growing problem of hacking, threat to economy, causes and
preventive measures of cybercrime is discussed and critically examined.
The cybercriminals use the technologies as well as internet to hack the personal computer
of users, data of smart phone, personal information from the social media, confidential data f
business, national secret. The criminal who performs the unlawful activities by the internet is
known as hacker (Yar & Steinmetz, 2019). Although the law enforcement agency is trying to
handle this issue, it is developing continuously. Various people have become victims of
malicious software and hacking. The best way to stop the cybercriminals is to make use of
inscrutable security, which utilizes the united system of hardware as well as software to validate
the data that is accessed over Internet (Holt, Bossler & Seigfried-Spellar, 2017).
Furthermore, the hacking is a biggest threat to global economy and national security. To
handle the hacking efficiently, it is essential to develop multidimensional private-public
collaborations between the law enforcement agency, IT sector, information security companies,
internet organizations as well as financial organizations. The cybercriminals do not struggle one
another for preeminence or the power. In its place, they work together for improving the skills as
well as even help the others with more chances. For this reason, the common methods of