Awareness Of Cyber Crime Prevention Analyzed By The Nearest Neighbour Analysis In India

Abstract

The Development of Computer and mobile phone applications have increased cybercrime alarmingly in India.  It takes several hours to detect and remove fraudulent information from the sharing of unauthorized systems. Otherwise, in cases of hacking information theft, they are intimidated by the internet. So we can protect our self with awareness of cyber security to avoid problems related to such cyber-rape incidents. For this a majority of the respondents that are 60 percent felt that only sometimes the media is giving cybercrime-related news, 25 percent said they did not find enough news related to cyber security while only 20 percent were of the opinion that cybercrime-related news appears in media very often. Of the remaining 20 percent, 5 percent were of the opinion that print media is creating more awareness and 15 percent said it is the electronic media that is creating people more aware of issues related to cybercrime. Quantitative analysis within the style of a survey was instrumental in collecting the information which is analyzed by the Nearest Neighbor Analysis. Along with this, measures being taken to control cybercrime also have also been discussed.