{"id":1019294,"date":"2026-07-07T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019294"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:34:16","slug":"shoulder-surfing-emerges-as-indias-overlooked-cyber-risk-as-screen-use-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/shoulder-surfing-emerges-as-indias-overlooked-cyber-risk-as-screen-use-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoulder surfing emerges as India\u2019s overlooked cyber risk as screen use soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As India embraces digital banking, hybrid work and paperless governance, cybersecurity experts are warning of a growing threat that bypasses firewalls, passwords and phishing scams altogether: visual hacking. <\/p>\n<p>Also known as \u201cshoulder surfing\u201d, the practice involves unauthorised viewing of sensitive information directly from another person\u2019s screen in public spaces such as airports, caf\u00e9s, trains and co-working offices. While often perceived as a low-tech risk, cybersecurity professionals say it can expose financial records, confidential emails, business documents and personal data without leaving any digital trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As India embraces digital banking, hybrid work and paperless governance, cybersecurity experts are warning of a growing threat that bypasses firewalls, passwords and phishing scams altogether: visual hacking. Also known as \u201cshoulder surfing\u201d, the practice involves unauthorised viewing of sensitive information directly from another person\u2019s screen in public spaces such as airports, caf\u00e9s, trains and co-working offices. While often perceived as a low-tech risk, cybersecurity professionals say it can expose financial records, confidential emails, business documents and personal data without leaving any digital trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019320,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019294\/revisions\/1019320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}