E-Commerce: Environment of Personal and Business Growth

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The Internet offers an environment of personal and business growth, but it is also marred with threats of cybercrimes. Cyber-attacks have created a threat to internet security resulting in various cybercrimes. Identity theft is one way that hackers use malicious emails or trick users into providing their passwords to steal personal and account information. Hacking is another crime involving tricking users into accessing certain links and gaining control of their personal information for malicious purposes. Piracy involves copying and also distribution of videos, movies, and music among other intellectual property without consent from the owners. Other cybercrimes include child pornography involving sexual exploitation of children, drug traffic based on selling drugs online, and also tax-fraud where fraudsters obtain valid names and social security names of users and steal their information (Britz, 2009).
Businesses can overcome cybercrimes by enforcing email security to eliminate potential threats. This means email transcriptions to ensure employe...