As there is an exponential growth in the number of INTERNET users all over the world the potential threat to the safety and security is growing manifold in recent years . The users are putting to multifarious uses in the comfort of their homes and in offices and cyber cafes quite oblivious of the fact that there are hundreds and thousands of cyber criminals who are very smart and equipped with latest technological knowledge to take advantage of a momentary lapse on the part of the users. So next time you are hooked to the net for doing an on-line banking transaction or reply to an email , never lose your guard for a moment because there are people snooping around your privacy.

According to a report prepared by Trend Micro 2010 , the security scenario might be aggravated in the coming year with reports of more and more cyber crimes. A new generation of cyber criminals with sophisticated knowledge and brilliant ideas is joining the ever growing bandwagon of cyber criminals and they are mostly targeting social networking sites to fish out vital and sensitive bits of information to commit massive frauds. They gather information from profile pages and postings of some members who are gullible enough to divulge them rather unwittingly and fall prey to these cyber criminals. Their modus operandi is as varied as the nature of these cyber crimes. They use smart news headlines to catch the unwary to penetrate the information base of the users and succeed in stealing PII ( Personal Identity Information ).

And with “Cloud Computing” coming in a big way which allows use and utilisation of storage and management of data in distant servers , which is a necessity for the corporates as an instrument to save on costs, the threat of cyber crimes has acquired an alarming dimension and need to be tackled with due caution and imagination.