Department of I.T, I.T.S, Ghaziabad organized a Webinar on Appetite for Destruction" - Webinar on Cyber Security on 15th November, 2017 for MCA -2nd year students. The objective of organizing this webinar was to give new exposure to the students of MCA regarding the Ransomware attack.

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November
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15
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2017
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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Mr. Raj Samani, Chief Scientist, McAfee was the key note speaker of this webinar. He very nicely explained the working of Ransomware attack, how it sends the message to the victim and demand for the money in bit-coins. He said that the attacker make the data as its hostage. He also discussed about the concept of malware. He also suggested the listeners to make others aware about this attack and also take proactive measures like data backups, updating to secure their confidential data from hackers.
At the end of the session there was a question & answer round where he answered many questions which were asked by some of the attendees.
Overall it was a new experience for the students to be the part of this webinar.