Stay Safe Online: Essential Tips for Safer Internet Day
The internet has become an integral part of our daily lives, connecting billions of users worldwide. With this ever-growing connectivity comes the responsibility to ensure a safer and more secure online environment. Recognizing this need, Safer Internet Day, celebrated on February 11th, is a global initiative to promote digital safety and encourage responsible online behavior. With nearly 7 billion smartphone users worldwide and almost 60% of global web traffic coming from mobile devices, cybercriminals are increasingly exploiting people's reliance on connectivity. Financial frauds, phishing scams, and data breaches have become rampant. In India alone, over 75% of cybercrimes in 2023 were financial frauds, with half of these cases linked to Internet banking and UPI transactions. According to government statistics, over 4.30 billion cybersecurity breaches targeting financial organizations were recorded in the first half of 2023 alone. A report by the Reserve Bank
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