Sunday, 17 May 2015

CYBER SECURITY - CYBER THEFT

What is Cyber Theft?


Cyber theft occurs when your financial or personal information is stolen via computers or smart phones. They are criminal offences committed via the Internet, online networks or any social media sites.

Cyber thieves can target both corporations and individuals. One cyber theft example happened with adobe as well when their intercepted message was got stolen that is another thing that they worked on it and nothing big happened and they said actually hash message got stolen so no need to worry big.

How to prevent from cyber theft?

  • Shop on secure websites.
  • Monitor your bank accounts or other personal sites.
  • Update your password with interval of time.
  • Smartly open your web-mails or electronic-mail.
  • Smartly use PC, Tablets and mobile of others.

The abuse of computers has also given birth to a gamut of new age crimes that are addressed by the Information Technology Act, 2000.

                             Cyber law in INDIA....


  
   The Indian Government has in 2003 announced plans on a comprehensive law for cyber crimes.

THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT, 2000
                (No. 21 of 2000)

 CHAPTER XI
OFFENCES
66. Hacking with computer system.
1.  Whoever with the intent to cause or knowing that he is likely to cause wrongful loss or damage to          the public or any person destroys or deletes or alters any information residing in a computer                  resource or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injurious by any means, commits hack.


2.  Whoever commits hacking shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years, or with fine                 which may extend up to two Lakh rupees, or with both.

Sunday, 3 May 2015

Shoulder Surfing Attack






                                           Shoulder Surfing Attack

Shoulder Attack is comes under Cyber Security which is highly used. It refers to direct observation technique, such as looking over someones'shoulder to capture someone's personal information like Security codes,  PINs like ATM PIN number or Credit Card Information,  Passwords and Similar data.

Criminals often use used this technique to gain access to your personal accounts or read personal information, such as e-mails.

It is one of the effective way to get information in public places (Crowded areas) where the enforcer is not as likely to be caught because its quite easy to stand next to someone and watch as they fill out a form or enter any private information like use of calling card at a public pay phone, enter PIN number at an ATM machine or when you are entering your computer password.




Sometimes shoulder surfing is done for no reason other then to get an answer or just for fun or to irritate someone but in other instances it may constitute a security breach.

Shoulder surfing can also be done long distance with the aid of binoculars or cameras from a more remote location. 









To prevent shoulder surfing you must Shield paperwork or your keypad from view by using your body or cupping your hand.

COGNOS-INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS COGNOS ??

 Cognos is a reporting tool made by company named cognos in 1969.In 2007, Acquisition of Cognos is done  by IBM , So IBM Cognos is a basic ETL tool which is used to Generate reports ,which is helpful for the Big Companies to analysis their performance .IBM Cognos software can provide what your organization needs to become top-performing and analytics-driven.



In Cognos, their are some Basic Component to generate a report .


  1. Model or Framework Manager 
  2. Report Studio
  3. Query studio
  4. Analysis Studio 






  • In Cognos we use Model or Framework Manager to Map database which cosign can understand.Model stores the Metadata Information of the database. So we can say that Model stores database structure information.


  • Report studio is other component , it interact with the Model to create the reports.
Report Generated by this tool is used by end users.