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TO: Mr. Welch

FROM: Antwan Echoles

DATE: October 28, 2021

RE: Cybercrimes

Cybercrimes are criminal activities carried out using computers or the internet and are committed by cyber criminals aiming to make money (Jahankhani, Al-Nemrat & Hosseinian-Far, 2014). Cybercrimes have made people lose money, intellectual property, and reputation. Cybercrimes are relevant in today's culture because technology is advancing by the day, yet security measures to protect the technology are not growing at the same rate leading to high numbers of cybercrimes.

As an internet user, cybercrimes affect me directly. I was once a victim of phishing, a cybercrime where attackers send malicious emails to users and access their computers. I never realized I was dealing with criminals until I could no longer log into my computer because the criminals were in control of it and had to pay money to get my credentials back. Cybercrime is a significant problem today that is advancing and disrupting people and daily organizational operations.

Information on how cyber criminals attack people and organizations despite using strong passwords, updating their software's and keeping up with significant security breaches needs to be addressed. Information on the rapid increase of cybercrimes and why it takes long for actions to be taken on cyber criminals need to be addressed. Cyber criminals are ahead of most people using the internet; despite most of them taking the necessary caution to prevent cybercrimes, they still look for new ways to hit their targets.

The opposition to the argument is that most people who are victims of cyber criminals do not take the defense of cybercrimes. Cyber criminals are advancing on the ways to target their victims; they are looking for new strategies day by day (Jahankhani, Al-Nemrat, & Hosseinian-Far, 2014). Most organizations have been victims of cybercrimes despite monitoring computer equipment and systems, encrypting important information, securing their devices and network, and backing up their data because the criminals look for new strategies which people are not prepared for.