Avanzo Cyber Security

The God’s Own Country, surely looks like, it needs to fight a hard battle to reclaim its lustrous title.  The crime rates that are currently raging within the state have definitely pushed it to the national topper in the crime chart, even beating out on UP and Delhi. As per the National Crime Records Bureau, Kerala has a crime rate of 424.1, which is significantly more than the Nation average of 187.6. According to the NCRP reports,  the God’s Own Country have now become the most unsafe state in the country  with Kochi turning to be the most dangerous city.   The metro city has a crime rate of 1879.8 which is frighteningly much more when compared to other cities of the country with an average of 341.9. The NCRP has released a complete detailed statistics of the various crime rates happening in the state that includes rape, kidnapping, attempt to murder, murder and dowry death. The rape rates against women are also significantly higher in the state and is cur...

Autofill options of various browsers including plugins and utility apps such as Last Pass could be innocent schemers in phishing attacks that feed on user details. Viljami Kuosmanen, a Finnish web developer, recently found out that when the user enters personal details like the email address, the user name and so on, on a webpage, the autofill, which should be essentially be making the task easier for the users by fil ling in the other profile based information boxes could be easily filling in other unobtrusive boxes too at the same time.  The autofill option of Google chrome stores all personal details of the user such as email address, phone numbers, credit card info, company details and much more by default and these information are completely prone to phisher attacks. The best way to get out of this lethal threat is to disable the autofill option available on the browser that the user uses.

Avanzo Trust is an organization based in Kerala, India specialized in cyber laws and cyber securities solutions with nearly 7 years of experience. We have taken this initiative in the context of increasing criminal activities and deceits using the wide reach of cyber world following the proliferation of broadband and subsequent use of internet over cell phones as well as other web enabled equipment all over the country. Our campaign for prevention of cyber-crimes intends to give guidelines in handling issues related to the misuse of cell phones and internet. We at Avanzo are dedicated to educate the general public especially the adolescent and youth the possible vulnerabilities in the usage of mobile phones, internet and social networking sites. The trust is the brain child of Dr. Pattathil Dhanya Menon, a cyber crime investigator by profession and managing trustee of the same. She is the first woman participant in international cybercrime seminars from India and has won accol...