A source of income is a prerequisite to sustain a family or livelihood. There is no dearth of job seekers as young adults continuously enter the workforce. Bagging the first job after graduation or a downsizing is challenging. The scramble by anxious job aspirants for limited opportunities is actively exploited by fraudsters posing as company officials or job consultants. Fraudsters target unsuspecting job aspirants looking for lucrative jobs overseas or jobs which offer greater job security, such as with the Government. Job scams affect companies or sectors with large scale recruitment such a ..read more

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Instances of people being fired from their job or jailed because of offensive, inappropriate or indiscreet tweets are plentiful!  Once a tweet or post is online, it is not possible to control who views it. Even without many follower’s tweets go viral.  Intelligence and Police forces constantly analyze tweets and posts in the public domain to pick up information on potential suicides, terror threats and drugs.  Thinking before you post can save a lot of personal distress. Avoiding the seven types of posts and tweets illustrated below will improve your online image and prevent act ..read more

 This was a question that deeply interested me for two primary reasons. The first was that even if they were unsafe, people would continue to use them because not to, meant that societal and business connections would be hampered. Afterall, most of the world’s population have signed up on these social media and collaboration platforms creating a gigantic network and data repository.  The second is simpler, its hard to tell if these platforms are unsafe until there is a public news outbreak, and at that time exit possibilities are limited.  The reality hit me, when a few large se ..read more

 The coronavirus pandemic has forced children to spend a large part of their working day on the computer and online.  Our young kids are embracing the Internet at an accelerated pace.  Today’s essentials like online schooling and virtual friends’ meetings cannot be regulated based on the screen time norms of the past. The one- or two-hour screen time limit rule has fallen apart, as children are on the Internet for almost 6-8 hours a day. At the age of 7 to 9, logic and critical reasoning are still in the formative stages.  It becomes difficult to explain to kids what Intern ..read more

 Astounding isn’t it! I am sure that you will question the audacity of the statistic. I can tell you with confidence that even a security expert is not immune to falling prey to phishing emails. That is why even the most mature security companies are hacked.  Any human will click on an email whose content appeals to a human emotion that is strongly felt.   There is a phishing bullet with everyone’s name on it. To illustrate the point, let us study two examples.  The first is related to the COVID pandemic. You receive a phone call from an unknown caller. The caller requ ..read more