Cyber Crime and Security

  Prepaid SIM Card   Avni came home after college. That was quite a day for her. Lectures, practical, library sessions one after the other. Freshened up, after eating a little, she picked up her mobile phone. Just two days ago, she bought a Aircel prepaid SIM for her mobile phone with dual SIM card system. She was happy to get good internet speed.   As soon as her phone rang, Avni, who was surfing on WhatsApp and Instagram, came to her senses. There was a call to the new number. An unknown number flashed on her screen. She received the call.   "Hello..." "Refund the money withdrawn from my account ASAP, otherwise the result will be bad. I’m telling you" "Hello. Who do you want to talk to? Perhaps you have a wrong number." "It's the number 8763×××××× isn't it?" "Yeah, the number is right." "Six-seven months back, you called from this number and asked for my ATM card number and PIN and withdrew money from my acc

  SpyHuman   Written by ©Kavita Datar   "Shreya! Please get up! It's past seven. Don't you want to go to college?" Shreya was awakened by Mom's voice. "Shit man! Didn’t the alarm go off? How did I not hear if it did?" Talking to herself, she picked up her mobile phone. She was annoyed to see the black screen of the mobile phone which did not show any movement. "What is this? It was 79% charged last night. And now discharged? How’s it possible?" Finding the charger, she turned on the mobile charging and entered the bathroom.   But when Shreya returned, the mobile was not charged at all. Its screen was completely dead. She was very upset. "It needs to be repaired." She said to herself.   Shreya gave her mobile phone for repair at a mobile shop near her college. The next day, she got her mobile repaired.   She was relieved after getting the mobile back on properly. She was amused to realize that, how much th

 #Helpline1930 Mr. Dikshit was quite happy today. Few minutes back, a message had come from the bank that his pension money had been deposited. He had promised to get a laptop for his granddaughter, Sumedha, who graduated with good marks. Suddenly his mobile phone rang. An unknown number flashed on the screen. He picked up the phone. "Good evening, sir! I am speaking from BSNL office ." "Yes ..." "Sir, your KYC update is pending. This is a reminder call for the same..." "Please call tomorrow ... I'm in a hurry now ..." "Sir, today is the last date ... if KYC is not updated then your mobile phone service will be shut down from tomorrow. It will take only two minutes Sir" "Okay ... what should I do?" Fearing that his mobile phone would be switched off, Mr Dikshit decided to update KYC. "You will receive an SMS with a link. Click the link to open a form. You will have to fill the form. I will keep myself

  Social Media Trap   Some WhatsApp users complained and police arrested Ayush. According to the complainants, a hateful, offensive and religiously divisive post went viral since last three-four days, from the WhatsApp group of which Ayush was the admin. Damini, a Cyber Security consultant analysed Ayush's social media handles (his Facebook, Instagram and Twitter profiles), through social media analytic tools. This type of analysis can reveal a great deal about a person's mental state. Like… Is the person depressed? Restless? Angry? or balanced? What are the political, religious and social beliefs of that person? Etc ... From social media analysis, however, Ayush seemed to be a young man with a balanced personality. At the request, the police allowed Damini and Advocate Sachin (Ayush’s prosecutor) to check the cloned copy of Ayush's mobile phone. When a cyber-crime happens, during digital forensics, a cloned copy of the involving device is created and the origin

  Smart TV Story Rajesh and Reema is a couple living in the high locality of Surat. 10 years had passed for their marriage. Rajesh had an addiction of ​​ watching porn movies on the smart TV they had. That is why he had kept the TV in his bedroom. Along with watching porn movies, Rajesh sometime s used to visit porn websites too, through that TV. One night when he was watching a video on a similar site, he was shocked. His private intimate moments with Reema were filmed in that video. Rajesh showed that video to Reema. Reema collapsed. They both didn't know what to do. There was fear of defamation if he went to the police. Rajesh told this to his close friend, Sudhir. He asked him to seek help from a cyber security expert. Ankit Desai is a famous cyber security expert in Surat. After meeting him, Rajesh explained all the details. Ankit first observed Rajesh's bedroom completely. He suspected that there would be a spy ca

  Fake Recruiters     Reena applied for a job through a job portal. Two days later, she got an email telling that she had been shortlisted for the job and for security reason she had to share her debit card details with them. She was happy as she succeeded after 6 months of job search. Without much thinking she shared complete debit card details along with CVV (Card Verification Value). After some time she got an OTP (One Time Password) from the bank and SMS from the person pretending job portal official, asking for the OTP. She knows very well that OTP must not be shared with anybody but still assuming that he was a genuine person she shared the OTP with that fellow. Furthermore she left with nothing in her bank account. Upon enquiring on the job portal they told that they only help people for job search and not shortlist or select people.  No job portal, employment exchange or recruiter demand debit/credit card details of