Security Awareness Training by Abhay Verma

WhatsApp is what something we all are fond of and we spend most of our time in chats and video call via app. The most popular app today with 1.5 billion users. Most of us are well aware of the features provided by the app like end-to-end encryption, and message delete... but how much of you are aware...    HOW TO KEEP YOUR WHATSAPP SECURE???  Image Source: WhatsApp You must ask yourself what security measures you are using to keep your account and yourself safe from the cyber threats. Don’t be in the misconception that WhatsApp is safe and it possess no risk. ...THERE IS NOTHING IN THE CYBER WORLD THAT HAVE ZERO RISK FACTORS...  I must say that WhatsApp possess equal threat as other social media sites do, instead WhatsApp security is much more important than securing other social sites. Spyware attacks have already been occurred in WhatsApp, the data sent and received via WhatsApp messages (including images, gif, documents, and videos) are vulnerable before they are ...

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...

Malware or malicious software refers to the software that have malicious purpose i.e., it is intended to make harms on the computer system in some or other way. Malware is the combined term used for almost every type of mal codes(The bad software or block of code that want to damage your system). These includes Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Spyware, Botnets, etc. Image Source: AVG It is a general confusion with many people that virus and malware are same. They are the two different words for the same thing. Every sort of malicious program is referred to as virus for those who aren't aware of the malware categorization, but it is not like that, virus is the category of malware. The main purpose of malware is to either harm the computer system or to steal information. Every type of malware is made to do the thing in different ways so that it become hard for the antivirus programs to detect them. There is no particular path of the spreading of malware. Those can be have many so...

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W hen an authorized person of an organisation is entangled in the cyber attack, just think of what level of damage it can lead to? The above situation where an organization's employee is involved in the attack perpetration on the network or the computers of the organization is referred as INSIDER ATTACK .  Insider attack is one of the most dangerous sort of attack for any company.  The company's employee has an edge advantage over the external threat. The insider is very well aware of the company's policies, strength, weaknesses any many confidential details. Due to the scenario, it becomes very easy for the insider to frame a attack domain and deploy the attack. While on the other hand, the external actor need to first analyse the organization's environment, the details, employees trust on organization, its outreach co-ordinations and so as like… Image Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/gregpetro/2019/04/05/shopping-malls-arent-dying-theyre-evolv...

 “ 32% of confirmed data breaches  and 86% of email attacks include phishing attacks and $24.26 billion were lost in 2018 due to card payment fraud. ” Image Source:  https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitalnest.in/blog/how-data-science-plays-an-important-role-in-addressing-cyber-security-risks/amp/ Before starting with anything, let's first talk about WHAT IS DATA SCIENCE? Data Science is the interdisciplinary field that deals with the programming, domain expertise, algorithm, scientific methods and systems to extract significant evidence and insights from either structured or unstructured data. The term interdisciplinary is used because it is the confluence of mathematics and statistics, computer science and business knowledge. Image Source: https://www.techiexpert.com/difference-data-science-machine-learning/ Data is something that cannot be confined in limits, it has a vast category- images, text, videos, voice, speech, and many more.- all are data and are divided as s...

I n the time when everyone has their social essence and in today’s world of data breaches, it becomes very necessary to be defensible against such invasions.  Source: https://www.itweb.co.za/static/pictures/2018/10/resized/-fs-social-media-icons-2018.xl.jpg The time when all your details are available online- • Your facial recognition database on TikTok  • Your fingerprints database on smartphone companies • All your friends and family list on Facebook  • Your videos choices and audio database on YouTube • Your work and professional colleague database on LinkedIn  • Celebrities and your ideals you follow on Twitter and Instagram  And many more, many more….. These are only some of that information of yours available online and it’s  not a big bargain to steal them especially from your own social media account. Social media poses biggest threat when it comes  to data breach.  “ A recent Stratecast study states that 22% of social med...