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Hackers don’t hack your system; they hack your minds!

Pune International Literary Festival (PILF) held on 8 th September 2017 at Yashada, witnessed the congregation of numerous intellectual authors as well as speakers who shared their words of wisdom to nurture curious minds. The objective of the festival is to engage, explore and experiment with literature. Vaishali Bhagwat, an Advocate by profession expressed her piece of mind through workshop on “Protecting yourself from Cyber menace”. She emphasized on the fact that people tend to believe cyber threats are a recent phenomenon; which isn’t true. Audience have this psychology that it wouldn’t affect them so they generally chose to ignore it as a result they are ignorant of its consequences. Technology has altered the way we interact with cyber space. The speaker shared a few unusual incidents which can make anyone flabbergast! She mentioned about a lady who transferred about 45 Lakhs in the account of a person who promised to marry her on a matrimonial site. Another refer