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Cyber news, best practices, password manager and much more

Cyber-Vigilance

Problems

• 1. We all know that the cyber crimes are increasing at a tremendous rate. As the technology is growing daily tasks are becoming easier for the people and with that are coming the loopholes in the system. Fraudsters take advantage of these loopholes in the system only.
• 2. People are not well aware of the what to do and what not to do because the technology is new but the people are old. People of more than 40 years of age haven't seen such technology in their times and so they are most vulnerable to frauds. Once caught, people don't know what to do next.

How will cyber vigilance app help in solving these problems?

Loopholes will exist in any kind of system. We can minimize them but there will be loopholes in every system. For example, the concept of One Time Password was brought to tackle cyber frauds but still people found loopholes in it too. Not only this, there are other things like cyber bullying, how will we tackle this? Our approach in solving the given problem statement is based on an old idea: Prevention is better than cure.

• We will post news regarding the latest cyber crimes so that people be well informed about them and can avoid them.
• We have tried to educate people about the cyber crimes, what should they do to be safe and what to do if caught in the trap.
• The e-sim fraud is caused when someone enters your gmail account, most of the cyber bullying activities are carried out when someone is able to get into your social media accounts. So passwords must be strong, different and should be changed peoidically but with all this, the management of these passwords becomes an issue. The app has a password manager with it.

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Features of the app:

Authentication:

All users must create their account in the app. The authentication can be done using email & password or through google account.

News:

Category wise news is avialable which will help the users be updated about the latest cyber crimes.

Contribution:

Suppose if you become a victim of a cyber crime, you can tell other people in the community about the cyber crime so that they might be safe from it.

Cyber laws and best practices:

As said earlier, the best way to stop these crimes is theough educating people about what is right and what is wrong, what they should do and what not, where and whom to inform if they become a victim. So you can read the cyber laws and best practices which will keep you safe from such crimes.

Password manager:

The app has a password manager which are stored in our firestore database and can be accessed from any device. So set strong and different passwords from now on without having to remember them.

Installation instructions:

The app must be installed on a mobile device with Android OS and Google Play Services installed. The android version must be greater than Android version 4.4. To install the app, download the apk and then open it. Allow "Install from unknown sources" in settings. Now install the apk and run the app.