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...

W ith the advancement in the technology and the outreach of the internet services has developed a widespread net of e-commerce. e-commerce refers to the internet-based service that deals with the selling and purchase of the products with the use of internet. Shopping online is really a great experience where user encounters various deals and offers with home delivery which is a boon for the customer. Image Source: ISEA Online shopping from the e-commerce site is becoming more and more popular to purchase things ---smallest from diapers to largest furniture, electronics or even houses--- everything is available online nowadays with a comfort for the customer to get it at their home step. There is neither particular time to shop nor the limit of things to shop, which saves a very precious time of the customer and is preventing the long queue in the shops. Although online e-commerce offers a lot of advantages but there are major threats involved in the act, and the … INTERNET IS SOMET...

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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