Cybercrime, put simply, is any crime carried out over either a network or a computer (or both).

A criminal may have many different motives, be it to damage or disable a network, to spread malware and false information, to infect a computer or network with a virus, or to steal customer information from a company and then hold that information for ransom.

We also live in a world where cybercrime is a significantly greater threat than most people realize, with an average of one new hacker attack every 39 seconds.

The easiest way to hide your IP address is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), which is simply a service that allows you to create an encrypted connection to the internet via a server that is given to you by a VPN provider. Since the connection is encrypted, no one else has any access to it (not even the provider will have access).

Here are five cyber security trends that we are seeing as well.

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