Cybersecurity

Cybercrime Prevention

Cybercrime is a new and rapidly growing form of transnational crime. The Internet has become an almost indispensable means of everyday communication and information exchange around the world, and criminals cannot help but take advantage of it. Two billion Internet users worldwide create an ideal environment for committing crimes, where you can act anonymously and access any personal information that we, willingly or unwillingly, post online. In recent years, Internet security has been increasingly threatened, and more than 431 million adult users suffer from crimes in global cyberspace.
What is cybercrime?

A number of concepts are currently used to characterize computer crimes: “information crime”, “cybercrime”, “crime in the field of computer information”, “crime in the field of high technology”, “virtual crime”.

According to the current legislation of the Republic of Belarus, the concept of "computer crime" includes:

crimes against information security (modification of computer information, unauthorized access to computer information, computer sabotage, illegal acquisition of computer information, development, use or distribution of malware, violation of the rules for operating a computer system or network, etc.);
theft through the use of computer equipment;
production and distribution of pornographic materials or items of a pornographic nature, including those depicting a minor;
other crimes, one way or another related to the use of computer equipment: incitement to suicide by systematic humiliation of personal dignity through the dissemination of any information on the Internet; disclosure of medical confidentiality; illegal collection or dissemination of information about private life; slander; insult; dissemination of false information about goods and services; knowingly false message about danger; espionage; intentional or negligent disclosure of state secrets; intentional disclosure of official secrets, etc.

Thus, computer crimes include offenses in which computer equipment is used as a tool to commit a crime or as an object of a criminal attack.

Cybercrime takes many different forms, most often - crimes related to personal data. They can be committed with the help of "phishing" (deceiving Internet users in order to force them to provide their personal data), malware (software installed without the user's knowledge and collecting personal data) and hacking (illegally obtaining remote access to someone else's computer). As a rule, such methods are used by fraudsters to steal credit card data and money. In addition, crimes related to the violation of copyright and intellectual property rights, as well as the distribution of materials with child pornography and scenes of violence are increasingly committed via the Internet.

Useful links:

The Concept of Information Security has been approved in the Republic of Belarus

Stop! Phishing!

Cybersecurity

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Preventive material (download)

Video "Vishing. ABC of digital security"

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