Starting in July, videos will be broadcast in all the University of Turin locations to raise awareness among the academic community on the topic of cybercrime.
Even in Turin, digital identity theft is an increasingly widespread crime, as a consequence of the greater presence of IT services in everyday life and the widespread use of technologies. For this reason, users are inevitably exposed to the risk of having their personal data stolen.
The consequences of theft range from the illicit economic exploitation of information to the use of the identity for criminally illicit purposes: consider the cases in which the victim’s name is used to activate financing, paid services, illicit sales or the luring of minors online.
The starting point, in most cases, is the theft of citizen’s identity documents together with the access credentials to the platforms, also through the use of phishing, social engineering and spoofing techniques (falsification of identity).
To prevent such crimes, the Postal Police and the University of Turin, thanks to the memorandum of understanding that binds them, starting from the month of July will broadcast some awareness videos on the public screens present in all the Turin University premises. theme. Short and effective messages that will inform UniTo students, teachers and technical staff on how to prevent new digital pitfalls by using IT tools more safely in everyday life.
The prevention initiative deals with other current issues such as the risk of running into scams linked to false online trading, which, behind the prospect of easy earnings, leads the investor to a loss of invested capital, or phishing, which is increasingly widespread.
The Postal Police always recommends:
● never disclose personal information to strangers or over unsecured channels;
● do not provide your personal data in chats;
● choose secure and differentiated passwords for each individual account;
● configure security systems such as two-factor authentication on your device;
● do not open attachments to e-mail messages unless you have examined them with an antivirus;
● be wary of anyone who, pretending to be a bank operator or member of the police force, asks you to communicate your OTP or password;
● do not be fooled by prospects of immediate profits, being wary, among other things, of fake sponsorships by famous people, who in turn are victims of undue exploitation of their image.
