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Steganography
Raise your hand if you watched the web series ‘The Freelancer’? The show in which a new bride ends up getting abducted into Syria, and is rescued back to India. In one scene, the ‘Freelancer’ sends the victim a harmless looking image to click open to infect the antagonist’s phone? That was an example of…
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How not to take the phishing bait
The popular cab aggregator Uber became a victim of a massive data breach in Sep of 2022. And how did the attacker get access to the sensitive internal systems? It turns out that the supposedly eighteen year old attacker who was eager to take responsibility for the successful attack said “I was spamming [an] employee…
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The less talked about Immigration Scams
Every day, we hear about people losing their hard-earned money to the classic romance scams, investment schemes and job and work from home scams. A relatively lesser-known scheme which is often a variant of job scams, is very surgically targeted at victims looking to relocate to foreign shores. These are often hard to crack by…
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I Got Scammed, How Do I Get My Money Back?
Originally published for online magazine the420.in by Shweta Patel As a fraud prevention expert, I get this question a lot. Others in the fraud-fighting domain like me, also probably receive similar questions from people who have been a victim to online scams or cybercrime. So, I wanted to write this article, almost as a PSA….
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Password hygiene and Authentication Best Practices
A password is nothing but a method of authentication, so that an application can validate that a user is truly themselves. There are 3 types of ways to authenticate a user. Knowledge based, Possession based and Inherence. These are respectively what you know, what you own and who you are. Knowledge based can be either…
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Be cyber safe!
Cybercrimes and digital scams are an issue that is growing every day. Often retired people lose their life savings to shameless fraudsters. –Originally published in Pune Mirror on 27 Mar 2023, by Shweta Patel– Cybercrimes and digital scams are an issue that is growing every day. Often retired people lose their life savings to shameless…
