PUBLIC DATA AND PRIVATE INFORMATION- THE THREAT AND ATTACK BY CYBER WORLD

In the world of Internet nothing can be done without identifying the user. Internet is borderless and to perform any task we need to give our information so that we can be identified by the Cyber world. Identity is required by any website like banking, online shopping, mails and Social sites. In general the information that is entered while registering to any website is used to identify the user for further logins and access. Some sites may ask us to create a profile which could be used by others for identification. These profiles are public and anybody can view it. This public information which we think is no where leaving us unsecured and is the key hole for the hackers to steal your private data. Now the question that the user needs to understand is “Is my public information really Public or Private?” In this paper we shall study the ways the user creates his profile, the general attributes that are given while registering and few examples how the users private data can be stolen by public data. We hope the study done in this paper would create awareness to the internet users for further registrations over online.