HOW TO USE LASTPASS – PASSWORD MANAGER

LastPass is the best password manager because it's easy to use, super secure and it works across all your devices. So if you want to improve your password security, you never have to worry about passwords again. Use the best LastPass features like emergency access and two-factor authentication.

The social, economic, and practical dimensions of your life are contained in the brush password. The character of almost every man today is password protected. 

The bank balance is protected not only by a one-time password but also man's past is protected by a password. Social media chat, messaging, e-mail, shopping, food orders Ninety percent of the current man's life is documented in shopping and food orders. 

Man no longer has to write a diary, mobile and internet automatically take the whole day's account from him. But a password is needed so that the third party does not know our weak link. But about eighty percent of the public use a password that can be broken very commonly. So what to do? Here are some software programs that can be used as password managers.

This January, US-based German programmer Stefan Thomas lost 7002 bitcoins worth $ 220 million after forgetting the password of the system that stores bitcoin!

If there is an app like Facebook or Instagram or Twitter and we forget its password, the data so far like photos, conversations with friends, status, etc. will go away but at the same time, a document of time will be completely lost. I don't have to tell discerning readers what happens if I forget my bank or e-mail or computer password!

So the question is why do we forget passwords that have become as important as air, water, and home? According to a study by Rutgers University, your brain remembers passwords based on how important a particular password is to you and how often you use it. 

Jenna Lindquist, study co-author and assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering, said, ‘Websites focus on revealing whether their passwords are weak or strong. But they do nothing to help people how they will remember their passwords. 'He also said that many people get frustrated because they can't remember passwords.

But does technology leave us frustrated? There is a password management system that turns our frustration into hope, which remembers the password for us and also in a very safe and secure way! Many companies create a password manager system but we will talk about a password management system called 'LastPass' which is very popular now because it is paid. Let's understand what this system is.

Find out what is LastPass that was acquired by a company called ‘log me in Inc’ on October 9, 2015. LastPass is a secure password management system that saves all your usernames and passwords in a safe place called Vault and the key to this Vault is not easily found. Simply put, it is a vault where you save your password and then forget it, but LastPass remembers that password forever and LastPass enters a username and password for you when you log in to a website. So let's understand in a little detail how our system that stores our passwords and username treasures work like the story of Khul Ja Sim Sim.

Suppose you have a large vault and in that vault, you have saved the keys to all the other vaults of the house and you need to open the vault with the key of the main vault that is needed. Lastpass works the same way.

Like many other password managers, the LastPass extension is available on web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. But do you think it's safe to use LastPass right now when hackers are playing easily everywhere? So the answer is that LastPass has zero knowledge about the data in your vault and can't even access or share your data in that vault.

You can use this LastPass for free on any of your device type mobile or computer. A minimum fee is required to use another device.

There are many other password managers in the market like LastPass like Chrome Pass Storage, BitWorden, NordPass, Log my Once, Avast Passwords, Zoho Vault, KeyPass,  dashlane, 1Password, Keep Security, etc, and most of the password managers are safe to use.  Now choose the password manager you like and feel free!

If you don't want to use a password manager, keep a strong password instead of using a typical password such as date of birth, girlfriend's mobile number,  1 to 9 digital numbers. Eighty percent of users keep passwords that would take an hour for a clever hacker to crack. Keep a 'password' and let everyone know that we have a very smart password. Even small hackers are smiling at such people.

 

 

Check out the tips for having a strong password

 

Don't show love for your boyfriend or girlfriend in the password because people who know you can easily know the date of birth or name of your favorite character by guessing.

The longer you keep the password, the more secure it will be. It takes months for an eight-digit numeric password to be hacked, but it takes years if it is a 9-digit one.

If an eleven-digit password uses the upper case and lower case alphabets alternately and has punctuation marks along with the number, it will take decades, not years, to crack even with the help of hacking software. Remember this.

Any long figure you like can be used. The song you like, the favorite picture, the color you like, the sum of the digits of your vehicle number, your record-wise birthday date, and a combination of all these - you will easily remember and the password will be very strong.

One last truth to remember: no password in the world is 100% secure; Neither LastPass nor any password manager is one hundred percent safe.

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Online Education – Negative Effects on Kids

Both lockdown and unlock have brought people to digital platforms. The situation has also become such that it is no longer possible to walk without a digital platform in the future. Online Education is no exception.

As a result, the Internet has become a significant concern for parents these days. At present, the screen time of children on digital platforms is an average of 6 to 7 hours, and the screen time for entertainment is an average of 2 to 3 hours. It is challenging for parents to keep an eye on the digital tasks for an average of 8 to 10 hours behind a child.

One more concern for parents is that their children's study activities are on the Internet. Will our children get caught in the internet trap? Simultaneously, if we keep children aloof from the Internet, it can significantly impact their studies. 

If we give them internet loneliness, they will not fall into the Internet trap, will they? What is the child doing on the mobile, what kind of person's call message is coming? Many such concerns plague parents today.

It can be dangerous for every user if care is not taken while using the Internet. But children and adolescents, in particular, have been the biggest victims.

Children may inadvertently send their parents' information to a third party while accessing the Internet, Unknowingly downloads malware and loses control of your computer or Mobile,

In particular, research so far has found that cybercriminals upload whatever data they want to lure children online. Its victims are today's children and youth.

However, it is also affecting their parents. Parents of children and young people who are always online are again living under constant fear. In this situation, everyone needs to be very careful.

To make your children aware of such attacks, you need to teach them cyber awareness lessons not to fall prey to cyber-attacks.

Let us learn about some of these cyber-attacks today and inspire our children to become future cyber warriors.

Cyberbullying

45 out of every 100 children are victims of cyberbullying. It makes a huge difference in the behavior of children. A 2019 survey found that about 60 percent of children using social media experienced cyberbullying in different ways. Cyberbullying involves the gathering of friends on social media to make fun of a particular child.

The effect is also seen in the child's brain and behavior. The best way to prevent cyberbullying is to talk openly with your children about what's going on in their lives online and in real-life. It is also essential to keep an eye on your child's online social media group, discussions, and other mobile activities.

Cyber Predators

Cyber predators are interpreted as predators of the digital world. Cyber hunters use "Let's play a game" to get in touch by sending notifications to children online. Then make friends with the children and try to know their needs and problem. The needs of children are also catered for by cyber hunters if possible.

After winning the trust of the children, complete information is collected from their parents and others. Through which the innocence of children is taken advantage of by hunters. Sometimes the child considers such invisible persons to be more important than the parents. When the time comes, these people lure children into the Internet and make them do inappropriate work.

It also grabs children's or parents' money: this e-hunter monitor's explicitly social media and gaming platforms. Parents need to keep an eye on where their child is playing with an online gamer. Online games can be dealt with only those who are familiar gamers.

Information from the Public Domain

Kids still don't understand the boundaries of social media. They post personally identifiable information online, such as their photos, mobile number, date of birth, likes and dislikes, plans, pictures of any celebration, etc. All social media companies have a specific age limit for their users.

However, when it is not complied with, cybercriminals obtain child personal information from the public domain and engage in child pornography based on it, showing children their morph photos and making unreasonable demands on them.

Sometimes children hide all this from their parents and suffer at an early age. In particular, parents should be allowed to open an account on social media based on the specific age limit set by the social media companies for their users.

Involve Children for Posting Abusive Comments

Children are lured by cybercriminals, under which the child is suggested to write a rude comment on a particular person's post and is also given a specific benefit for it. Still, the Internet does not have a "delete key".

Things that are posted online stay online forever, so when your child posts something online, it is almost impossible to remove it from the Internet even after deleting it from that portal.

As a result, parents must pay attention to all the comments posted by their children and advise children to stay away from strangers and accept the same friend requests on social media that we know face to face.

Send Malware via Link

Malware is computer software, which is installed without the user's Permission and performs harmful actions on the computer and the Mobile. Through which personal information is stolen.

Cybercriminals contact children and transmit malware through children in children's friends and family groups. Children fall prey to cybercriminals in the slightest temptation, resulting in friends and family trusting the information transmitted by children.

Thus, cybercriminals are spreading malware to the computers and mobiles of most people in society and carrying out cyber-attacks on innocent people; the child's link must always be adequately investigated by the parents the digital footprint of the link should be prepared.

The school-college is closed for fear of Corona's transition as every child's study is online. But a survey has found that about 79 percent of the country's children are studying with a smartphone. Only 17 percent of children use a computer or laptop for online study.

About 60 percent of children are devoting one to four hours a day to study online. At the same time, 31 percent of children are devoting 4-8 hours to online study. Throughout this process, their online stay time has steadily increased.

Zoom, Google Team, Telegram, and WhatsApp have become the most popular medium for Online Education and File Sharing. Simultaneously, psychiatrists warn that spending too much time online can lead to behavioral problems in children.

The study, conducted on 10,000 students in about 400 cities, found that nearly one-third of children studied on their school's online system said to be the best of the existing options in terms of security. At the same time, online flaws are also beginning to appear.

According to the survey, 31 percent of students are having trouble concentrating during online classes. So 12 percent of the students said that they could not correctly share the problems encountered during the online course with their teachers, and their issues could not be solved.

The disadvantages of having more Online Education

 

Online Education is a new system; we have to accept it. But keep in mind that spending too much time online can lead to mental health problems in children. Being online for more than three hours a day seems to affect their contact with real life.

Kids seem to be lost in the virtual world. Their confidence in everyday life seems to be declining. They will always feel like emptiness and find solutions to their virtual world problems instead of their parents or friends.

According to a doctor, spending more time online classes reduces physical activity. Prolonged sitting can lead to back pain. This situation can cause irritability in children. Playing time may be reduced. So that social interactions do not develop in them, and they may remain lost in themselves.

To overcome all these digital worries, Google has developed a mobile app that will work as a relief for all parents, so let us know about it.

Google has introduced Android Application 1)' Google Family Link for Children & Teenagers' and 2)' Google Family Link for Parents' is free software. One you have to download on your Children's Mobile and the other one on your Mobile.

It helps parents improve their children's digital habits. The software tracks all the child's activities on the mobile, up-to-date information, the activities of the Mobile, and posts the report to the parent; the story also posts the screen time information of each software used by the child.

The following are some essential features of Google Family Link and can be controlled through parental control.

▪ You May also block the installation of any software.

▪ Can control or block video games.

▪ You can give Permission to install software up to a certain age.

▪ You can prevent children from using certain Internet services.

▪ How many things a child can find through a search engine can 

   also be controlled.

▪ The screen time of the child's Mobile can also be known.

▪ Parents can fully control their child's Mobile from their Mobile.

▪  What kind of videos children can find can also be controlled

   by parents.

▪ The child's location information can also be obtained.

▪ You can filter's web browsers and allows only pre-approved websites

   to reach children.

  

 Importance of Cyber Security

Cybercrime is a crime. These include computers, mobiles, and their networks. If any computer or mobile or their footprint is found at the crime scene or any crime, they will receive it.

Offenses committed with a digital device are included in the category. Cybercrime also includes misappropriation and misuse of personal information, stealing, or stealing someone's personal information from a computer or mobile without permission.

Computer crimes are also committed in many ways. Such as stealing data, deleting data, altering information. Giving useful information to anyone else without the permission of the original owner or stealing computer parts and destroying them.

Besides, there are many other types of cybercrime, such as sending spam-mails, hacking electronics devices, phishing attacks, uploading and sharing viruses, assuming someone's identity, and stalking someone online or keeping an eye on them.

Types of Cybercrime & Information

 

Hacking - The act of stealing and altering anyone's personal information such as a username or password or hacking is an attempt to use a private network in a computer system or commuter for illegal purposes without the original owner's permission.

 

Spam-e-mail - in which unwanted heaps of emails are sent. Which only harms the computer or mobile. This can lead to defects and sometimes spam emails with spy software being input into mobile or computer. Then every activity done by the person is recorded.

 

Phishing: Phishing is a social engineering attack. They were used to steal any login information and data, including credit or debit card numbers. An attacker sends an email, instant message, or text message to the sufferer by assuming a known identity. As a result, the victim gives information about his / her non-disclosure, keeping in view the credible identity, and the damage is done.

 

Cyberbullying - making rude comments on social media platforms like Facebook, whatsApp, and Instagram, making cyber threats on the Internet, making fun of someone, putting others to shame through the Internet, is called cyberbullying. Children and women are the biggest victims.

 

Spreading viruses: Cybercriminals sends some software to your computer or mobile. These include virus worms, Trojan horses, logic horses, etc. sent only to disrupt the operation of computers and mobiles.

 

Rumours on social media: Many human beings use social media appreciably to unfold social, ideological, religious, and political issues. Users do not understand the motives behind the post and deliberately share such links or posts. This can lead to social unrest, such as mob lynching. Such incidents are also included in the category of cybercrime and cyber-terrorism.

 

Fake Bank call: You get the phony email, message, or phone call. Looks like it came from your bank. You are asking for your card information, ATM number, and password, and at the same time, you are informed that if you do not provide this information, your account will be locked, or please provide information on links. Remember that any bank or bank official never requests such data.

 

Sexting: Sexting refers to a type of cybercrime that involves sending digital images, videos, text messages, or emails, usually showing sexual activity from a mobile phone.

 

SIM swap: A SIM swap scam means that when a fraudster fraudulently obtains a new SIM card of your registered mobile number from your mobile service provider, with the help of that new SIM card, they can make financial transactions. OTP can also receive and receive all types of notifications.

 

SMSing: SMSing refers to a type of fraud in which a mobile phone text message is used to visit any fraudulent websites or download malicious content via the web. When someone follows such text messages, they end up in substantial financial losses.

 

Smishing: It is a combination of short message services and Phishing in which Cyber criminals send emails that seek to recipient to open a malware attachment or a link. Smishing is becoming an emerging and growing threat in the cyber world.

 

Child Pornography: It is a crime to publish or share an image or video on the Internet of any kind that contains a sexual image in any form or form of sexual abuse. At the same time, Section (2B) of the Information Technology (IT) Act also states that the publication or transmission of a child's electronically displayed material in a sexual act is punishable.

      

Cyberstalking: Cyberstalking refers to a crime in which a person uses an electronic communication medium to chase someone. Efforts to make to increase personal contact, to communicate, even when there are clear signs of reluctance on the part of the person or the victim, are monitored continuously utilizing the Internet, email, or any other type of electronic communication.

 

Cyber ​​Grooming: Cyber ​​grooming is a crime when a person forms an online relationship with a young person and manipulates or forces them to engage in sexual activity.

 

Job Fraud - Online Job Fraud Trying to deceive people who need employment giving False promises of getting a good job with a high salary and money laundering in the name of registration and different processes.

 

Sextortion: Sextortion refers to an online blackmail crime in which a person threatens to disseminate their personal and sensitive material to society, using electronic means, when they do not provide pictures of sexual activity, consent to sexual activity, or pay a cyber-criminal. Sometimes photographs or videos are also sent by MORPH.

Identity Theft - In this type of crime, any person fraudulently or dishonestly uses that person's electronic signature, password, by incorrectly assuming another person's name electronically.

The Reason for more to Cybercrime in India

Measures to avoid cybercrime

No work can be done without the Internet but doing any work without taking precautions can prove to be harmful to you. Therefore, if you read all the measures given below and adapt them in your life, you will never be a victim of cybercrime.

Use a secure internet service - We often start using it as soon as you get free Internet, whereas you should know that any free internet can be harmful to you. Because there is some such WiFi also, using which all personal information of your phone is stolen. So always avoid any free WiFi facility.

Use a strong password - Always put a strong password in all applications related to your personal information. It should not be that you have been using your same password for years, but you should keep changing your password regularly so that no one can crack it. With this, you can avoid being a victim of cybercrime.

Keep your software up to date - To prevent accidents related to cybercrime with you, you must keep your operating system and Internet software fully updated. If you keep updating your software regularly, then no hacker will be able to steal any of your data from your software.

Restrict your social media settings - In today's time, social media has its own identity. And the biggest cybercrime is also carried out through social media, in such a situation, it is essential for you to completely restrict your information on all types of social media accounts.

The most important thing is to give information about your social media account only to those people who are reliable to you. No unknown person can enter your social media account and misuse the information related to you, so keep all the information related to your account restricted.

Tell your children about the Internet - In today's time, small children are becoming victims of cybercrime because they do not have complete information about the Internet, due to which they soon go astray.

In such a situation, it becomes the duty of good parents to explain to their children all the information related to the Internet in detail so that they can be alerted before anything goes wrong with them.

Take care of your website - If you are a businessman and run one of your websites, then keep your website safe and secure. If you see even a small flaw, then change the password of your website immediately.

Avoid sharing your personal information on social media - In today's time, all the people who are a big celebrity or common man, uploading all the information related to themselves through social media. In such a situation, some stockers take care of your profile and start following you.

By uploading any of your mail IDs and any information on social media, you can be in danger at any time. At what time, where are you going, and why are you going, do not share any such post on your social media account so that you can avoid cybercrime.

Note: Sec.78 of I.T. Act empowers Police Inspector to investigate cases falling under this Act

 

Sending threatening messages by e-mail	Sec.503 IPC
Word, gesture, or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman	Sec.509 IPC
Sending defamatory messages by e-mail	Sec.499 IPC
Bogus websites, Cyber Frauds	Sec.420 IPC
E-mail Spoofing	Sec.463 IPC
Making a false document	Sec.464 IPC
Forgery for purpose of cheating	Sec.468 IPC
Forgery for purpose of harming reputation	Sec.469 IPC
Web-Jacking	Sec.383 IPC
E-mail Abuse	Sec.500 IPC
Punishment for criminal intimidation	Sec.506 IPC
Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication	Sec.507 IPC
When copyright infringed:- Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed	Sec.51
Offence of infringement of copyright or other rights conferred by this Act. Any person who knowingly infringes or abets the infringement of	Sec.63
Enhanced penalty on second and subsequent convictions	Sec.63A
Knowing the use of an infringing copy of the computer program to be an offence	Sec.63B
Obscenity	Sec.292 IPC
Printing etc. of grossly indecent or scurrilous matter or matter intended for blackmail	Sec.292A IPC
Sale, etc., of obscene objects to a young person	Sec.293 IPC
Obscene acts and songs	Sec.294 IPC
Theft of Computer Hardware	Sec.378
Punishment for theft           Online Sale of Drugs NDPS Act            Online Sale of Arms Arms Act	Sec.379

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