Position Paper #2
Handling Cyber Crime I think it is common, when thinking of cybersecurity or cyber attacks, for people to think of large scale cyber invasions like the breaking of a firewall of a huge company. However, especially in the age of technology we are currently in, there are personal cybersecurity invasions happening every day all around us. While things like this have been happening for years and years, 2020 was perhaps one of the most active years in regards to cyber attacks . While the rest of the world was going through some of the toughest times with COVID-19 taking over our everyday lives, hackers and cyber criminals were having a blast preying on the vulnerability of people. They posed as and impersonated pandemic responders such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in order to steal information and money from people who were going through desperate times. While in the past protecting against cyber attacks may have been as easy as switching over to safe browsers, exper...