In view of increasing ATM and bank fraud cases and other cyber crime cases occurring through various social networking sites, officers of the cyber crime police station hosted a workshop on Tuesday to educate the officers and employees of Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun about how to preempt such frauds through precautions and awareness of the modus operendi of such crimes.
The officers were also informed about what precautions they should take while visiting various social networking sites. IIP senior scientist/in-charge AK Jain, COA Jawant Rai and head technical DC Pandey aside from scientists, officers and employees were present on the occasion.
Inspector Bharat Singh said that following the direction of Cyber Crime Police Station in-charge SSP P Renuka Devi, such workshop as part of its awareness campaign was held at IIP, Dehradun.
Singh said that with the advancement of technology and increase in its accessibility, large numbers of people are using social networking sites and sometimes they indulge in wrongdoing using the technology knowingly or unknowingly.
He informed the IPI officers about how they would keep their secret data/documents secure while working in the computers. They should not use unauthorized PAN card in their computer. Anti-virus and firewall should be updated from time to time. They should change their password from time to time.
Cyber Crime Police Station in-charge inspector Mahrut Sah informed the officers about Bank/ATM frauds while sub-inspector Ved Prakash Thapliyal talked about social networking sites like facebook, what’s app and others during the programme.
Sah told the employees to use ATM card cautiously. “You should not inform anyone about your secret password. At ATM room, strangers should not be asked to withdraw your money. You should change your secret password from time to time. If your cash is withdrawn by anyone you should inform the cyber crime police station promptly,” he said.
Thapliyal talked about the social media in details. He stressed that they should not provide mobile phone number, email id, photo, identity card and other important information. “Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to using social media like Facebook and Whats App. If you act on your impulses being unaware of the provisions of IT Act you are likely to land in trouble,” he said. He further said that the youths using social media on internet must know dos and don’ts. “One should use a strong password. Use privacy settings and insist your friends use them too. Never leave anything but the bare minimum as publically available. Make sure that only your accepted friends or followers can see what you put up. Even then leaks, hacks and privacy policy revisions are not unheard of,” he added.