Rahul Dev Karan (23) was arrested from his hideout in the Kasba area by the Kolkata Police Cyber Crime section more than three years after the complain was filed in May 2013.
According to a senior officer of the Force, five mobile phones, two SIM cards and several fake documents including student identity cards of Jadavpur University were seized from Karan.
"The accused used to befriend people impersonating as somebody else creating fake profiles using photographs of others. He used to chat and grow close to them and then asked them to recharge his mobile phone with an amount ranging from Rs 200 to Rs 2,000," the officer said.
architecture and controls have most increased risk exposure for Indian industry over the last 12 months, with as many as 61 per cent of the respondents citing this aspect as their top most vulnerability.
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Careless or unaware employees was second-most important concern for 58 per cent.
"Majority (54 per cent) believe that cyber-attacks are primarily targeted at defacing or disrupting organisations or towards stealing intellectual property or data (51 per cent), followed by fraud (48 per cent)," the report said.
According to the Indian respondents, management and governance issues (42 per cent), followed by lack of quality tools for managing information security and lack of executive awareness and support (41 per cent) were seen as the main challenges for information security operations.
"The most important information security challenges of IoT were identified as finding hidden or zero-day attacks (50 per cent), identifying suspicious traffic over the network (44 per cent) and ensuring that implemented security controls are meeting the requirements of the day (40 per cent)," the report said.