Security Awareness Training by Abhay Verma

Have you ever thought that in everyday life you are unknowingly performing various online tasks that are considered as illegal on cyber world. Just take a moment, sit silently and recall what you are doing all day long in your smartphones, tablets and PCs. Source: https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/src/uploads/2018/07/types-of-cyber-crime-04.jpg   CAN YOU GUESS SOME OF THOSE TASK YOU THINK TO BE ILLEGAL.. I will make it easier for you.   Consider some examples here: 1. Downloading movies, songs without subscription from any site. 2. Downloading pirated software from internet so that you don't have to pay for the subscription price. Software piracy is an illegal reproduction of an software for personal use or distribution. 3. Copying copy write protected content from internet like text, images, videos, data, etc. without permission of original creator or without providing reference. All these act are considered to be violation of Intellectual Property(IP) Right or ...

Password is a combination of letters, numbers and symbols that are known to the only authorized person to access some sort of data, application or device. Passwords are the first layer of security and it need to be strong one so that it become hard to break the initial layer. Weak passwords are easy to guess and vulnerable to attacks. It is very much recommended by the security experts to keep the strong passwords that are hard to guess and not vulnerable to type of password attacks like dictionary attack and brute force attack. Keeping passwords strong will not only provide the basic level of security but also prevent you from attacks and data loss. About 81% of data breaches success due to use of either stolen, weak or reused passwords. According to HIBP, more than 572,611,621 real world passwords are previously exposed in data breaches. The 10,000 most commonly used password list can easily be accessed in WIKIPEDIA . Cracking a weak password just takes a few minutes while for a mod...