Cyber Safety Quiz

Option B looks similar but the ‘ɑ’ in gmɑil.com looks like an alphabet but it’s not. Such characters are called Homoglyphs. They are identical to letters. Such letters are often used in scam (phishing) mails to mislead people.

VPN. Free / public Wi-Fi can be unsafe as anyone can join them. A person with ill intent maybe able to see through your internet activity and they may use it deceive you. Using a VPN adds a layer of protection as it encrypts all your internet activity.

This is true. However, this history of recordings can be deleted from your Amazon Account > Manage Devices > Privacy Settings > Alexa. You can also turn off sharing of recording with Amazon from this section

Taking regular backup of data. These are called ransomware attacks. In these attacks, the data is held to ransom. However, paying the ransom does not guarantee that the attacker will decrypt the data or the attack won’t happen again. The best way to neutralise this attack is by taking regular backup of data.

All of the above. A weak password is easy to guess and crack. Once known people can use it to connect to your wifi network. Thereafter, they can misuse your connection for their own internet activity.
They can also take over the wifi connection and lock you out by accessing the router. Most ISP provided routers come with a default passwords. A list of these passwords is easily available on the internet. Additionally, the default router password is not usually changed.
Lastly, a criminal or a terrorist can take advantage of the weak password and use your wifi connection for malicious purposes.

Z clicked the first link without verification

All options could be correct to some extent. However, in this case Z most likely blindly trusted the first link shown by the search engine and made a purchase from a scam website.

Search engine results should not be blindly trusted, specially the ones that appear on top and / or are Sponsored. It is possible that a malicious actor is running ads for a scam link on high hitting keywords.

PIN of the Mobile banking app

All of the above.

A. https://cybercrime.gov.in
B. Helpline number is 1930
C. Nearest Police station - 112 / 100 Women helpline number is 181
D. Nodal Cyber cell - https://www.rbi.org.in/commonman/Upload/English/Content/PDFs/LNA100112C_M.pdf

A & B. C and D can be posted after redacting certain information. For example, Certification ID, validity date, part of name etc. must be redacted when sharing pics of certificates online. Similarly, elaborate vacation plans must never be shared online. Also, when sharing these, privacy settings should be set in a manner that they are visible to your connections only.

False. Any crime where a computer or the internet is used as a mere tool but not as a means to commit or a target of a crime is not considered a cyber crime.

If you ever find yourself in such a situation, it is most likely a scam, never share the OTP. Do not entertain the caller as they are trained to convince people on why they need the OTP. Block the caller. Most importantly, check how they were able to generate the OTP. If they reached this stage, most likely it means that some part of the account (card details, username and password etc.) is known to the caller.

A, B and C. The risk of using pirated software is that they might contain an embedded virus. The source of such software is usually unknown and therefore can’t be trusted. Many software vendors have mechanisms to identify pirated versions installed on computers and block them altogether or block updates for them. The price of antivirus software has come down significantly in recent years, so it is recommended to purchase a license and then use it.

Install a web filter software that sits between their computer and the home router.

Installing a key logger is the most intrusive way. Next, is checking the browser history. Parental controls are not intrusive as such but children may figure out how to disable / bypass them. A web filtering software that sits between their computer and the home router provides an invisible mechanism for monitoring of internet activity.