Talk on “Cyber Security” : R&D Cell and Dept. of Science

Research and Development Celland Departments of Science of Besant Women’s College have organized a talk on“Cyber Security” by Dr. Ananth Prabhu  G.,  Advisor,  Vikas  Group  of  Institutions,  Professor,  Department  of Computer Science and Engineering, Sahyadri Collegeof Engineering and Management and CyberSecurity Trainer, Karnataka Police Academy, on 12th February 2019 in the college auditorium. Dr.Ananth Prabhu G., explained various ways of cyber-crimes with live examples, such as recharge fraud, ATM skimming,online job fraud, phishing, message spoofing, picture morphing, Tik-Tok videos editingapps, calls spoofing, cyber stalking, ransomware, deep fakes, keylogger malware, online dating,online trolling and online games.He also enlightened the students on the different measures such as installation of anti-virus soft wares, protection of the passwords, videos and pictures,not using the tik-tockvideo apps, informedand careful use of online shopping,websites, proper logout from the emails. The chief guest Dr. Sathish Bhat, Correspondent, Besant EnglishMedium School, spoke on transaction theft,identity theft, information theft and waysin which students should be secured from the cyber-crimes.

Guest of honour Dr. SathishKumar Shetty P., Principal of Besant Women’s College reiterated thecyber-crimes examples and alerted the students.

Sri. K. Devanand Pai,Secretary, WNES and the Correspondent of Besant Women’s College articulated that the studentsshould be very careful while using the mobile phones,internet and adoptall the measuresexpressed by the resource person.

WNES governing council membersSri. Ganesh Bhat, Dr. Manel Arjun Nayak, PTA President Sri. Sadashiva Shetty, Heads of Besant Education Institutions, Dean of Department of Science Sri. Gopalkrishna Raikerwere present during the occasion.

Dr. Sudha K., convenor of theResearch and Development Cell and the coordinator  of  the  programme  welcomed  the  gathering,  Ms.Anjali  Vijay Student  Secretary  of  the  cell  compeered  the  programme,  Ms.  Nishmitha proposed the vote ofthanks.