Cyber Attacks in India: The speed with which the scope of technology is increasing. With the same speed, the threats of cyber attacks are also increasing. According to a report, since October 2022, nine Indian internet users have faced a data breach every minute. America and Russia stand ahead of India among those facing cyber attacks.
India in top-5 countries
According to a report on cyber attacks, America has faced data breach in 246 crore accounts, Russia 225 crore and India 26.5 crore since 2004. Along with this, India is also included in the top-5 in the list of countries with more data leaks. According to the research, 14.3 crore password leaks, 7.3 crore names and 7.9 crore phone number leaks in India have also been presented in the research.
Ways to avoid cyber attack
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- The most important thing to avoid this, you must keep a backup of the data with you.
- Use good anti-virus software or firewall on your computer. Also, keep scanning the computer from time to time.
- Before clicking on any website link, check the authenticity of the website.
- Always make your login password difficult. Which cannot be easily guessed. Also, avoid using date of birth, name, address or common password in account password.
- Create your account password with combinations. In which include capital letters as well as digits, special characters. To make the password difficult.
- Do not share your information such as email ID, password, credit card or bank details on any website.
- Avoid downloading anything from unknown or unsafe websites.
- Always keep updating your system with the latest version.
- Avoid opening unknown emails and spam messages (such as online lottery, jackpot, bumper-draw).
- Do not use public free Wi-Fi.
