Security Awareness Training by Abhay Verma

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...

F rom gaming application to banking application, from personal use to business use, from child to adult, a commonly used most popular word everyone would found. Its MOBILE PHONE .   Yes, mobile phones or say smart phones nowadays are mostly used among any gadgets. There is a huge increase in use of smartphone in India from 524.9 million in 2013 to 813.2 million in 2019 and this is in urge of increment. (Data in millions) With increase in smart phones bring increase in number of mobile apps. Currently 2.8 millions apps are available for download in Google Play Store and about 2.2 million apps in Apple App Store. A normal person has about 60-90 apps installed on his/her smartphone but not use all of them. The ones in use are very less. All apps present on the play store or app store are not secure. Every 5 out of 7 apps in play store are infected and so every 3 out of 7 in apple app store. This means that we are really surrounded with malicious actors. Now let’s talk about how a...