Bokaro: To create awareness about cyber safety among the young generation and process healthy surfing, a workshop on Cyber Safety & Security and Ethical Hacking was organsied at DPS Bokaro. As evident from certain undeniable happenings, cybercrime in the society is taking a heavy toll and in an effort to make the young minds alert and concerned, the school organised this programme wherein Ravi Kumar, IPS, ASP State Cyber Cell, Director DAC was the Guest Speaker.
Initiating the session with Open-source intelligence (OSINT) which is data collected from publicly available sources to be used in an intelligent context, the speaker informed the students about different ways to access various sites like DeHashed, z-lookup.com, Notisave, Labalabi including others which will highly benefit them to secure their accounts and provide insight on database breaches and account leaks.
The session continued with insights on ethical hacking and some essential techniques to help children maintain their security like keeping their privacy settings on, having a secured Internet connection, choosing strong passwords and many more.
Introducing the workshop, Principal DPS Bokaro, A.S Gangwar said, “With the technological advancement across the globe, cybercrime is the biggest threat we are exposed to. It is imperative for all of us to be aware of the various security measures and enjoy the benefits of the digital world.”