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Vigilant initiatives of gamers to deal with evolving cyber threats

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Gamers are in a risky zone while using digital platforms playing various games. They need to explore a secure network and a VPN to avoid any cyber threats. Cyber security professionals advised that gamers must avoid  Using public Wi-Fi or shared devices to reveal their data to hackers or spies. A VPN can encrypt traffic and mask a user's IP address which may challenge cyber swindlers to track or intercept online actions. Players must shield the digital environment through strong Cybersecurity to expose personal information to cyber crooks, prevent duplication, protect game assets, and maintain the honesty and consistency of online gaming daisies. During online gaming, players may undergo several cyber scams such as phishing scams and social engineering tactics by cyber attackers to steal sensitive data and gaming assets. Phishing attacks are common tactics used by cybercriminals to deceive gamers such as creating fake emails or websites that resemble actual gaming companies. ...

Risk of Botnet attack in cyber world

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Cyber technology has a magnificent contribution in the companies for rocketing high success. Parallelly, the cyber regime is constantly under the grip of shrewd enemies who create brainly plans to crash the cyber activities on electronic devices. Botnet attacks are a fresh and intense annoying threat in the cyber world. Simply asserting, bot is software program, execute automated task faster on internet whereas botnet is constellation of electronic devices like computers, mobile phones which can be a target of cyber criminals to control remotely the operation by infecting with malware. These are named as bot herder. When bot herder gains full control over a group of electronic devices, then these are known as zombie. In Botnet attack, cyber criminals hijack internet-connected devices installed with malicious codes and perform threatening cybercrime such as stealing sensitive data, DDoS (Distributed denial of service), data breach, and spam attack. Once a cybercriminal (or bot her...

Cyber forensics is key safeguard process to investigate data breach in companies

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Cyber world is severely scuffling from persistent cyber threats that grimly impact the businesses of giant companies.  In the era of digitalization, cyber-attacks can be curbed through effective initiative from cyber experts. To protect valuable and sensitive data,  cyber forensics serve as a decisive role to fail the mission of cyber fraudsters.   Cyber forensics is a process of identification, collection, analysis and presentation of digital evidence to investigate the cyber-attacks.  Main purpose of Digital Forensics in progressive companies and startups is to investigate emerging issues related to digital operations, data breaches and cyber-attacks. In case of data breach, digital forensic experts perform thorough examination of the source of the breach, kind of data stolen, and the employees or agencies involved in data manipulation.   A cyber forensic professional enquires deeply the different sources responsible for data breach such as physic...

Keep close eye on fake social media profile for healthy and safe interaction

  Digital innovation is a wonder for humans to cross the geographical boundaries without physical voyage. Presently, multiple social media apps are available to connect people nestled in different global locations. Living in the cyber world also offers threats and challenges. Cyber fraudsters entered into the cyber world to breach the identity of users and have grim repercussions. Whenever working in a cyber environment, users must be well equipped with knowledge, regulations and vigilant to detect any deceitful activity. Cyber crooks are very smart to hoax innocent users through creating fake or clone profiles and add attractive features in their account. Numerous social media sites open a grand avenue for users to transform their career and personal living. Through a cautious approach, users can verify fake accounts used for business or expanding social connection inline. Effective strategies in using social media sites : Users interact with other internet friends or for co...

Train employees to arrest the Social Engineering Attacks

Cyber technology is empowering companies to transform the business landscape and speedily approach the people around the globe to chase giant fiscal objectives. Smart technical features of cyberspace offer dangerous boulevards to cyber offenders to disrupt the function of enterprises.  These cyber-attacks may be insider or outside fraudsters. One of the cybercrimes rapidly growing in enterprises today is social engineering attacks. Social engineering fraudsters adopt astute tactics of phishing, spear phishing, and identity theft to steal sensitive data of companies. To execute social engineering fraud, offenders psychologically influence the innocent users to commit some security errors. As a result, they extract sensitive data of companies such as passwords, credit card numbers, or personal information.  In Social engineering attacks, hackers briskly play with the emotions of employees such as fear, curiosity, gluttony, annoyance. Baiting is the most common social engineeri...

Digging out the secret of Automotive Hacking and preventive techniques

Incalculable changes are occurring in the technological field which has an immense influence on daily lives of the populace all around the world. Such Sweeping technological transformation modernizing the automotive industry. Wireless communication, information technology and Internet of Things (IoT) are used in vehicles to provide good experience, safe driving and comfortable journey as compared to previous transportation modes. In the track of revolutionizing the automotive industry, threats of cyber-attacks and hacking are increasing.  Currently, cars are well equipped with attractive automatic features. Many car manufacturers have launched Self-driving cars on the road. Smartphones are embedded into keys.  They have also designed auto-braking mechanisms to evade sudden road accidents. Though technical innovation offers excellent driving experience and safety at road, parallelly, advanced technical features are exposed to cyber-attacks. Well-equipped vehicles controlled...

Application of robotics to curb cyber attacks

  Application of robotics to curb cyber attacks Human life is challenging with rapid digital revolution. Robotic technology is extensively applied in myriads of arena to evade cybercrimes and improve security systems in companies. Robots can serve magnificently to enhance human living.  Security Robots work from remote locations and scan risky elements in the environment, gather real time information to assess cyber danger and provide security to companies to flourish on a global platform. Robots’ complete security task, detect risk through advanced sensors. To shield companies from cyber threat, robots closely monitor irregularities in data access and send security alerts to cybersecurity experts about probable cyber risks such as fraudulents can fetch the data or sensitive information and save time in detection and resolving cyber issues timely. Robots thoroughly observe the facilities continuously, ensuring defense and lessen the jeopardy of security breaks. The attract...

Injection attack may significantly wreck the organization through breaking the security layer

Digital environment for smooth running of business is a magical gift to companies. Besides many pluses, digital technology poses severe cyber threats in unified business and considerably disrupts their operations. Cyber hackers can steal sensitive data of a company that can devastate the business function and lead to huge fiscal loss. Injection attacks in cyber security is a major challenge for organizations in the digital era. Injection attacks can ruin any business in which attackers bypass authentication, fetch confidential facts or even can crash company's system. An injection attack is a shocking cyber-attack. Hackers inject untrusted inputs or unauthorized code into a program and interpret as part of an enquiry or command. This process leads to a modification of the forward for a malicious intention. Injection attacks allow cyber hackers to perform operating system calls on a target machine and compromise backend data stores. Attackers can crash the system or hack confidentia...

Keep safe your finance and secure sensitive data with biometric authentication with QR code

  Cyber criminals have grabbed the digital world to fetch sensitive data and hard-earned money from users through their tricky minds. Technical experts are constantly evolving pioneering techniques to ruin the mission of such dangerous cyber hackers who can wreck human life in seconds. QR codes, named as Quick Response Codes, is a secure way to pay online or verify data but it is still manipulated by genius defrauders due to similarity in OR code. To provide a high security layer, it is recommended to use biometric authentication with QR codes in organizations to verify data. A malicious QR code may steal sensitive data, login credentials, credit card information, or money from users. QR codes are a highly secure way for payment and cannot be hacked but scammers create fake QR codes that direct users to malicious websites and commit fraud and identity theft. Such fake QR code cannot be detected by online security personnel. Companies who use QR code authentication must car...

Cyberspace: Communication advancement

With the advancement of technology; Desk top computers, laptops or note book computers, PDAs, Mobile handsets etc. and with the aid of wired and wireless networks, access to Internet world or Instant Messaging (IM) opened up a new dimension of human experience. Cyberspace has been mentioned so often that it may at this point seem trite and overly commercialised. Cyberspace is currently used in a primarily symbolic sense and is mostly associated with the Internet. When a user sits in front of a computer and switches it on, they can bring up an environment of hypertext. It can seem like there is, behind the screen, an immense reservoir of information, which is also constantly being added to. A user is certainly aware that the people and processes that generate this information, and places where the information is stored, are not behind the screen or in the hard drive, but we nevertheless take the computer as a gateway to another place where other people have done similar things...

Ways to eliminate Cyber sickness: Increasing ailment of virtual exposure

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Cyber sickness is an emerging mental syndrome occurs due to scrolling through a mobile phone and show symptoms of a headache and nausea. It assaults majority of populace using mobile gadgets.  People face this syndrome when they watch fast motion on a screen and cover anything in a film and spend hours scrolling through web pages on phone or computer. Simple stated, Cyber sickness is the incongruity of responses between the eyes and the rest of the senses. It is experienced by users when they watch 3D or virtual reality pictures, play mobile games, and excessively use smartphone. Burgeoning research studies have found that the most troublesome effect of virtual reality on the user is onset of cyber sickness. Basically, cyber sickness is a form of motion sickness that results from interaction with or immersion in virtual environment. Statistics have shown that 78% of users experience some form of oculomotor problems, 70% users feel nausea, and 67% users are disoriented e...