Security Awareness Training by Abhay Verma

Social media has become an integral part of our daily life, especially the online messaging applications. In today’s era of digital communication, spreading of news and information takes place through the internet-based services and this happens at a very fast pace. Believe me, it’s faster than forests’ fire. The false news is what we call a FAKE NEWS . Image Source: https://www.homodigitalis.gr/en/posts/3336 Earlier, when news was shared person to person, it took more time to spread; but nowadays’ digital world these fake information gets viral and reaches millions in a very short span of time.  Every day we come across tons of social media news and information shared by number of peoples, in which some are true while some appears to be true. But what the concern is, we believe in every news we got in the social media. Ever thought WHY? Simple, because it is send by some of our family members, or friends, or any colleague. Then it must be true. We trust the person, so w...

One of the most widely used technique to perform scam and identity theft is Phishing. Image Source:  idagent.com Phishing is an attack against the end user which focuses on collecting user's personal data or in technical terms Personally Identifiable Information (PII) by tricking a user into providing details or clicking a link to a website, which is definitely a fraudulent website. The very common methods to attempt phishing: 1. The user has won the lottery, or getting some discount offers, so the sender ask for the personal information to transfer amount and will ask user to deposit the little bit sum of money to get the amount. Once the user pays or provides the information, the scam is done. Fig. Source: https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/panda-security/social-media-scams/ 2. Attacker claiming himself/herself to be an organization's employee like a bank employee or employee of any well-known company and send the request to user to click on link which redi...