Headlines- False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
- On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
- Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
- Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
- It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
- If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
- It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
- Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
- AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
- Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
- One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
- Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.
Tag: Cyber Fraud
Analysts: Proposed Replacement of Bangladesh Law...
Bangladesh’s draft Cyber Security Bill is nearly identical to the Digital Security Act it is meant to replace, with similar repressive provisions and harsh punishments that curb free speech, analysts said Thursday.
Journalists,Opposition Leaders the Target of Government...
According to Freedom House,governments in various countries are rapidly investing in sophisticated technologies to track their citizens’ social media use. Previously the domain of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, this sort of mass surveillance has spread to a variety of countries, ranging from big authoritarian powers to smaller or poorer ones hoping to seek down dissidents and persecuted minorities
Focus on Cyber Security
“As breakthroughs in digital technology continue to alter human existence, we must be vigilant in our awareness of malicious use of such technologies that could jeopardise the security of future generations,” UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu said
Cybercrime and Mobile Payment in Cameroon
The development of electronic wallet by mobile operating companies in Cameroon has change the dynamics of cash transfer, the payment of bills, educational fee, purchase of furniture, sponsor of programs by NGOs, but also negative impact, as cybercriminals use to perpetrate crimes, mitigating financial transaction through purchase of bitcoins. Cryptocurrency term which heard in every economic milieu, have become a tool use by some unscrupulous people engage digital marketing and cyber criminality to extort or victimize communities. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2008 as an open source software, which started operating in 2009 under the name Satochi Nakoamoto with the following particularities; digital money package which is privately own and exonerate individuals from bank fees, a virtual currency that uses per-to peer technology to facilitate instant payment, bitcoin is purchase through mobile money with the use of internet with cash deposit
What Are The Types Of Fraud...
By Debdutta Ghosh Some time at the end of June, Delhi resident Puneet Agarwal, the nephew of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel put up a plea for plasma for treatment of Covid-19 for a close relative on his social media page. Blood plasma from an individual who has recovered from Covid-19 contains vital antibodies …
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Cloud Computing Forensics: In The Criminal...
Globalization period changed the dynamics of information and communication technology, with virtual services use for IT infrastructure security, because of the rapidly re-configuration and evolving requirements limiting the request for redundant services (hardware). It’s also worth noting that cloud computing reduces the costs of providing IT services, by eliminating redundant computing power and storage, reducing support requirements
Cyber Criminality Trends: Why and How...
Information and communication technology has brought a variety of non-conventional crimes. Cyber criminality is a major challenge for security officials in Sub Saharan Africa. Each seconds cyber criminals discover software and security terminal devices to operate. The language used by cybercriminals is also a barrier to the law enforcement officers and the criminal justice system. We listen to new words each day, like machine man, Ngues man (to describe scammers) and pick-up, but also mail with attach bills for ‘clients’ of cybercriminals
The constructive theory
The theory is applicable for investigation related to company scam, where group solidarity (cybercriminals), technological advancement and inadequate cyber security training are challenges of the criminal justice system in some Sub Saharan African countries
Surveillance Technologies: RSF Calls on European...
A new round of European negotiations on the proposed regulation of exports of dual-use goods is due to open on Thursday 13 February in Strasbourg. The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament must find a common position on a text which aims to tighten the restrictions on the export of this type of goods,including surveillance technologies
Non-Governmental Organizations: A New Paradigm for...
Despite the creation of international and regional commissions for financial crimes, the challenge keeps persisting. Financial institutions lost huge amount of money every month, money transfer are been hacked and withdrawn by cybercriminal in partnership with dishonest staffs