AWARENESS OF CYBER SECURITY AMONG INTERNET USERS WITH REFERENCE TO COIMBATORE DISTRICT

Abstract

Cybercrime is any criminal activity committed using a computer especially to illegally access, transmit manipulate data. In recent years in all areas including national security, public safety and personal privacy. A well-structured questionnaire survey method will be applied to analyse the citizen’s awareness in the area of cybersecurity. This paper focuses various security threats like email, virus, phishing, fake advertisement, popup windows and other attacks in the internet. This paper examines the level of awareness about the security issues and some suggestions are set forth to overcome these issues. The aim of the study is to analyze about the awareness of cyber security among internet users with special reference to Coimbatore district by focusing various security threats in internet