Women’s Day 2024: 5 Tips to Protect Women From Cyber Attacks

Women’s Day 2024 is around the corner, but still, many women feel fear of their personal identity being misused with growing cyberattacks, which lead to financial fraud to cyberbullying. From deep fake videos to identity theft attacks, various attacks compromise women’s security. According to NCRB, cyber crimes rose by 24.4% to 65,893 cases for women.

Another report shows that cybercrime is set to surpass $10 trillion by 2025. No one would want to face these nightmares. There is a way out with the right security measures and tips to prevent cyber attacks.

Let’s break off the thread of cyberattacks that are putting women in fear this Women’s Day. Here, we will cover the tips that help women get away from cyberattacks.

 

Types of Cyberattacks Faced by Women

Cyber attacks are growing day by day, and sometimes, women are majorly impacted by the cyber attacks. Here are 4 crucial types of cyber attacks majorly faced by women in 2024:

• Deepfake attacks

Deepfake attacks are among the lethal cyber-attacks women have had to go through. To implement this type of attack, attackers use artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques to create fake videos and audio of the women with the intention of malicious activities like harassment, defamation, and spreading misinformation.

• Social engineering attacks

A social engineering attack involves coercing someone with psychological tricks to obtain unauthorized access to sensitive information. Aiming to exploit emotions such as empathy, fear, or trust, attackers can trick women into divulging confidential information, clicking on malicious links, or performing unsafe acts.

• Identity theft

Identity theft can put women into deep trouble as it is one of the lethal cyber attacks that play with the personal information of women. Identity theft puts risk to information like name, Social Security number, credit card details, or other personal information. 

Tips for women to protect from cyber attacks

Cyberattacks floating around the web don’t mean you just sit and wait for luck to be on your side. Here are some effective tips for women to stay protected from cyber attacks.

• Use strong password

A strong password is the perfect way that help women protect their personal information and even Internet banking. You can use a mix of numerical, upper, and lowercase, which makes it difficult to crack the password. As a result, you can keep the cyber attack away from your system.

• Implementing Two two-factor authentication

This women's day, every working woman may be working hard towards her goals. So not letting the cyber attacks come their way of success. Therefore, to prevent the attack, multi-factor authentication is the right choice. Some of the most common work productivity applications, like Gmail, Linkdln, etc., allow you for multi-factor authentication. This is a great way to add a layer of security. 

• Stay away from suspicious links

Women usually like to explore new things around the web, and this women’s day, they may be checking out for beauty products. Online may be the hub of information and stage to buy the best products, but most of the attacks are also undertaken online, especially in the form of links. Some links can push you through phishing or deep fake attacks.

That is why, to prevent being the victim of cyberattacks, it is highly recommended to be aware of the links you click.

• Keep third-party applications updated

Cyber attackers usually take the face of non-updated third-party applications to open the attacks, and Women's Day is the right time when most of them might be busy with parties or shopping. This can be the right time for cybercriminals to open an attack. Therefore, the best tip is to keep all your third-party applications well-updated and tighten all the loose links.

• Regularly back up your data

A virus, malware, or cybercriminal may cause damage to your data, delete it, or hold it for ransom with ransomware. Having backed up your data ensures you always have a copy available. Backing up your data to an external hard drive requires that it not be permanently connected to or networked to the device being backed up.

Conclusion

Cyber attacks are giving the biggest trouble to women and hindering daily workplace operations. With these effective tips on the go, you begin to set a trend of secure stage from this women’s day and continue to carry this to eliminate the attacks.

Despite everything, if cyber attacks push you backfoot, Heritage CyberWorld is here to shape security and offer the safest environment. We have a dedicated security command center, DRONA, with the best security team available round the clock to keep your identity safe and allow you to cherish life in a security-oriented online world.

Let’s join in to raise the bar of security this women’s day and allow them to live life to the fullest.