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Cyber Security Threats in Online Schooling or Colleging

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 Cyber Security Threats in Online Schooling and Colleging With all the talk about washing hands, students need to also think about how to practise good cyber hygiene using encryption, VPNs, software updates and password management. Software that takes over a device can expose the user to spyware, malware or data exfiltration that can compromise health and personal information, or academic research and intellectual property in a competitive field. With more teachers and students online, particularly if they’re doing it from less controlled environments outside of the school, the attack surface of the school community is increased, Schools and Universities tend to be quite careful about doing intrusion detection, and putting up fairly sophisticated access controls. Threat from Zoom Video meetings Video-teleconferencing platform Zoom has security and privacy issues, prompting Indian Government and later even New York’s Department of Education to ban its use as a digital classroom, Singapo

Types of digital wallet frauds

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Digital Wallets unawareness and greed  have created an enabling environment for fraud, the explosion of smartphones with internet and multiple modes of payment through apps. While there is enough protection built into UPI and card payments, fraudsters use various tricks to get users to part with critical information.  Methods used by tricksters range from payment requests made on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to sharing of QR codes on WhatsApp. Here are some common ones doing the rounds. 1.  Pre approved link fraud Fraudsters misuse the request feature on UPI by sending fake payment requests with messages like ‘Enter your UPI PIN to receive money, “Payment successful receive Rs. xxx” etc. You need to enter PIN only for sending money. Do not:  'Pay' or enter your UPI pin to receive money. 2. QR Code Fraud Fraudsters share a QR code over WhatsApp asking for the code to be scanned to receive money in their account. This QR code, a feature in some UPI apps, is in fact a col