When school doesn’t reach us...

Abstract

The word cybersecurity is booming these days, and we find many definitions of this word such as: defend, care for, protect, etc. But what is it that we must protect? Our information. Many times we lose our data because we do not give it the true value it has or we do not know how to do it! We see in the news that we are presented with different attacks day after day, for example: credential theft, malware, phishing, ransomware, among others. Cybercrimes advance from a personal to a business environment. Not being aware of the importance of protecting our information can cause problems in work environments, where security measures have to be stricter to avoid data theft, service failure, loss of equipment and even kidnapping and permanent loss of company information, which in many cases have been major blows where institutions are not easily recovered. In this article we will explain the reasons that will move us to take care of our personal information, we will examine some of the most frequent cybercrimes that are used to obtain private information and we will delve into three of them. This is an opinion article based on a review of the literature on the subject. The knowledge and data presented are public knowledge, but are aimed at a learning community that lives immersed in the use of social networks and virtual platforms and is therefore exposed to cybercrime and needs to know the ways in which cybercriminals act so that they can protect themselves personally, institutionally or corporately.