Avoidable trappings

While the internet has become a crucial, accessible tool for everyday life, its rise has also led to increasing cybercrime, making vigilance and precautionary measures essential to ensure personal safety

- VIPUL GAUR

One of the reasons why you can read this article is the access to the internet. The internet which was once a luxury is now available at very affordable rates. From the hands of a few, it has now become the talk of each person. We can easily buy vegetables using online payment methods with the vendors happily accepting the digital payment. The modes of payment like UPI and IMPS have made our lives easy to send and receive money. Smartphones are now available at a comparatively reasonable price and hence are affordable to every section of the society. Another advantage which the internet has given is, it has connected the whole world together, so it is easy for a person sitting in one corner of the world to send messages or even call with just the internet pack he has in his smartphone. It is as simple as a click to send an online document or picture or video or text and so on from one place to another.

But as it is rightly said, technology is your great friend when it is used wisely but your worst enemy when used without appropriate safeguards and caution. The COVID-19 and the post COVID-19 era saw most of the services shifting to online mode. To exercise care and caution during that phase online mode was preferred in various sectors including education, banking, IT services and so on. This move ensured that there is capability to shift services from physical mode to the online mode but, at the same time, it increases the incidents of cybercrime.