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...

Mobile devices are the number one most used gadget by any person, and mobile phone has some apps installed in it. Some are pre-installed, while you install some of them. Apps like gaming, production, entertainment, and many more, are mostly preferred ones and these only have the maximum number of FAKE APPS. Image Source: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcRrfPdtSy0ySE6REP0y2W_aM-W0-OFzcMRNgQ&usqp=CAU Fake apps are the apps that appear legitimate and looks to be well functioning but actually aren’t. These are generally designed to harm the users’ devices by stealing information, installing malware, and even jail root your device for full control. Once you download and install these apps, they start performing their malicious actions. Some may show you endless advertisements to generate revenue, while some collects your confidential information via key-logger or screen recorder. Most of the people finds it difficult to differentiate between real and fake apps...