As the cyber crimes increase every now and then with growing adoption of internet and smartphones, a seminar on Cyber Crime and Cyber Awareness was held at Patel Group of Institutions on Monday, where dozens of college students were taught about it and how to protect themselves from such crimes.
The seminar was conducted by experts — Mahesh Shrivastava, Shubham Khanna and Krishna Sawle from All India Institute of Technical Association.
While addressing the youngsters at Patel College, the experts taught them on how to use social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and other operational sites with safety.
While interacting with the students, they informed about the cyber crime, using social networking sites, and how to tackle the situation if their email id or the profiles on social networking site got hacked. The experts also informed where to complaint if such situations do occur.
Mahesh Shrivastava informed about the cyber awareness programme and cyber Act. He advised the students not to share their id passwords, bank account details and other personal or professional details on internet and also not to click or open any lottery win advertisements or job advertisements blinking on the window as they are the fake ones.
Shubham Khanna informed about the technical phase of the cyber crime and also shared the case studies with the students. later, the students asked them about the usual problems on social sites like candy crush requests or unwanted apps opening automatically.
The expert then informed them about how to deal with the fake ids as well.
Further, the students were also informed about how and where they can complaint about cyber crime and tackle with it. later, the students asked their various queries to the experts.