Beware of Data War
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Data in general is a set of information, knowledge, or fact that is measured and stored in storage devices. In our daily life, we access the internet for sharing, purchasing, and storing data. Have you ever thought about the ‘must-be thought’ factor, “Is my personal data safe”? or does someone else own it? This blog will speak about the Data war, its potential impact and how-to safeguard you from it.
Is your personal data in danger?
As we surf through the internet for our needs, we inadvertently leak some sensitive data such as username, passwords, bank account number etc for authentication and transaction purposes. These details somehow gets scattered in the internet and later gets exploited. In 2017, over 198 million US Voters data were leaked by an organization called as “Deep root Analytics”, due to an unsecured cloud server. I hope now a question would have aroused in your mind? Is my personal data secure or am I a victim of a data breach? In order to find it out, you can use OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence).
OSINT is information collected from public sources present over the internet for free. It uses sources from social networks, forums, business websites, blogs, videos, tweets, and news sources to fetch information. In order to utilize OSINT to gather information about a company or individual, one has to follow some techniques.
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How social media misuses your data?
??In 2018, Social media has been the major victim to data breaches as over 4.5 million user data were leaked. During the middle of 2018, Facebook revealed that almost 60 thousand South African Facebook user accounts were compromised. Even Google revealed that they are about to shutdown Google+ after exposing 500000 user data, due to the bug that wasn’t bothered for a long time.
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