Leading a Secured Digital

Life…….

Online Teachers Training on

Cyber Safety and Security

keeping yourself and your family safe in a tech

driven world

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 Agenda of the session

∙ Social Networking Risks and Challenges

⮚ Fake content, purpose

⮚ How to spot fake contents

∙ WhatsApp Security and Settings

∙ What to do and whom to contact when we are victims of Social Networking

Cyber Security is every ones responsibility
What is Social Networking ?

A social networking
service is an online
platform used to build
social networks or social
relations with other
people who share similar
personal or career
interests, activities,
backgrounds or real-life
connections.
 CYBER CRIME & EVIDENCE

Cyber crime occurs when information technology is used

to commit or conceal an offence.

DID YOU COMMIT

CYBER CRIME ?
YES NO
OPTIONS
DON’T
NO MAY BE
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 TYPES OF CYBER CRIME

o Child Porn
o Breech of Computer Security
o Fraud/Theft
o Copyright Violations
o Identity Theft
o Narcotics Investigations
o Threats
o Burglary
o Suicide
o Homicide
o Administrative Investigations
o Sexual Assault
o Stalking
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Social Networking
⦿Social Networking sites may be used for
⦿Meeting the people online across the world
⦿Making friendship with the people who are far away
⦿Profile building
⦿Self representation
⦿Exchanging / Sharing the information related to studies or
education, current affairs, sports, business, transport, movies,
latest news updates, event announcements, exchanging the
thoughts etc
⦿Share the data files, videos, music, photos

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Social Networking Risks and Challenges

Social networking has become most popular activity in today’s Internet world and epically
growing kinds

Disadvantage : Trapped by scammers or hackers leading to loss of confidentiality and identity theft,

• expose the kids to various risks like

• online bullying,
• disclosure of personal information,
• cyber-stalking,
• access to inappropriate content,
• online grooming,
• child abuse,
• fake profiles with false information,
• malicious application,
• Spam, and fake links which leads to phishing attacks etc.,
Tips to avoid risks by social networking
•Limit the information you put in the social networking sites.

•Don’t put personal information

•Most of the sites and services provide options for privacy settings

•Be careful if you want to meet social networking friends in person,

• Don’t ever click suspicious link while logged into social networking accounts.

• Always clean browser’s cookies and cache.

•Install a good and latest version of Anti-virus to keep your system free from malicious applications

• Don’t ever share your password and keep changing your password regularly.

•Don’t ever login to any site other than the legitimate sites

•Use Virtual Keyboard, wherever possible to enter your password for better security as these cannot be captured
by key-loggers.
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Friend created fake profile and posted
offensive messages

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Addicted to Facebook and ends her life

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Offensive messages in the social
networking sites took girl’s life

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FAKE CONTENT
•Include footage of real or simulated violence,
criminal activity or accidents, may promote
extreme political or religious views .

•Fake digital content may be discovered online

in a variety of spaces including websites, social
media services or file sharing services.
Purpose of Fake Content

•Promote hate towards individuals or groups on

the basis of race, religion, sexual preference or
other social/cultural factors, instruct or promote
crime, violence or unsafe behavior, gaining
unauthorized access to computers, attempting
fraud or terrorism, for fun purpose, etc.
SOME RECENT FAKE NEWS CASES
TinEye

•TinEye is a reverse image search engine.

•Give it an image and it will tell you where the image

appears on the web.

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HOW TO CHECK A WEBSITE IS GENUINE OR NOT?

1. GO TO THIS LINK

⮚http://isea.nitk.ac.in/catchphishdemo/client.html

⮚ CatchPhish Phishing URL Detection tool made by Information

Security Research Lab (ISRL) Dept of CSE NITK Surathkal.

⮚Put your website URL & it will tell that a particular website is fake or

genuine.
 WhatsApp Security

• WhatsApp is the favorite medium for hackers.

• Malware scripts embedded in photos & videos received on WhatsApp can

access your media gallery, contacts, etc. and transmit them to remote servers.

• There is a simple way to protect oneself from such an attack.

Two Step Verification on WhatsApp should also be enabled
Media Download

• Click on 3 dots shown on the right top corner in the group.

• Click on the first option i.e. GROUP INFO
• Three options shown below the group name i.e. mute
notifications, custom notification, Media visiblity
• Click on the third option MEDIA VISIBILITY
• Click on "No" option. Now the media will not be saved in your
phone. but it will display only in your group chats..
• Now that you know....act and inform your other group
members in other groups.
• This feature is only available in Group, not in individuals..
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A few guidelines most video conferencing policies include are:
• Users must get permission to record a video conference from everyone on the call.
• Personal mobile devices should not be used to record video conferences.
• Sensitive information should be discussed in designated video conference rooms and not in public
places or open office spaces.
• Video conferences conducted at a user’s desk should train the camera to focus on the users face,
and any visible confidential data should be removed from camera view.
• Cameras and microphones should be turned off when not in use.
• Remote control of cameras is for authenticated users only.
• Recording of the video should be notified to the host of the meeting. This should be supported by
the application itself
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