{"id":874239,"date":"2024-11-07T08:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T03:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=874239"},"modified":"2024-11-07T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T03:28:08","slug":"dont-trust-caller-id-info-can-be-spoofed-easily-cyber-advisory-to-government-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/07\/dont-trust-caller-id-info-can-be-spoofed-easily-cyber-advisory-to-government-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t trust caller ID info; can be spoofed easily: Cyber advisory to government officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyber security advisory has cautioned government officials against trusting the caller ID information that pops up while receiving a phone call, following a spurt in &#8220;vishing&#8221; attacks aimed at compromising confidential personal information and gaining unauthorised access to official systems. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attackers may impersonate trusted entities, such as senior government officials, law enforcement agencies, or technical support personnel,&#8221; the advisory issued recently by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cyber security advisory has cautioned government officials against trusting the caller ID information that pops up while receiving a phone call, following a spurt in &#8220;vishing&#8221; attacks aimed at compromising confidential personal information and gaining unauthorised access to official systems. &#8220;Attackers may impersonate trusted entities, such as senior government officials, law enforcement agencies, or technical support personnel,&#8221; the advisory issued recently by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) says.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874239","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=874239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}