AMANDA-JANE TURNER Cybercrime is big business, thanks to technical advancement and interconnectivity creating more opportunities for cybercriminals. This regular column will explore various aspects of cybercrime in an easy to understand manner, to help everyone become more cyber safe.
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Collaboration is the key to fighting cybercrime Cybercrime is big business. Perpetrators range from lone opportunists, hacktivists, cyber stalkers and solo deviants to loosely established decentralised groups, people involved in procuring and selling child exploitation/abuse material, nation state sponsored disruption and espionage specialists and members of large criminal enterprises. You do not have to be a tech whiz to be part of the fight against cybercrime, you just need to ensure you are doing what you can to protect your accounts. This means knowing where to go for help, keeping any children under your guardianship aware of basic online safety, and being willing to share with others accurate (non-sensationalised) information on cybercrime you have seen, or have been the victim of. • If you are a parent or guardian of an underage How do these activities contribute to the fight against
person, keep them informed on how to stay safe
cybercrime? If you have received a scam message
online and keep an open dialogue with them so
or email and alert your family to it and they then
they feel safe sharing concerns with you.
alert people they know, the knowledge on staying
• Use multifactor authentication where it is
alert for this fraud will be spread exponentially via
provided.
peer groups.
• Turn on automatic software updates where
If you are a cybersecurity professional, ascertain
• Think before you click or respond to requests for
possible. how your workplace can collaborate with others to support sharing of indicators of compromise.
sensitive information. • Share cybersecurity information with others.
Be active in your community, via social media or in person, in supporting people to be safer online.
To be effective in the fight against cybercrime and protect ourselves, our families, our friends and our
Here are some things we can all do to harden
workplaces, communities and nations, we all need
ourselves against cybercrime.
to work together. Collaboration is the key to fighting cybercrime.
• Stay aware of cyber safety messaging and know where to go for help.
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