{"id":22485,"date":"2024-04-14T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22485"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T14:30:45","slug":"what-is-doxxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-doxxing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Doxxing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Doxxing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The word \u201cdoxxing\u201d is derived from <strong>\u201cdropping dox\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a form of online harassment involving the <strong>publication of personal information<\/strong> about an individual without their consent.<\/li>\n<li>This information can include details such as their full name, home address, telephone number, place of work, and other sensitive information.<\/li>\n<li>Doxxing is often carried out to expose, threaten, or intimidate someone and can lead to severe consequences, such as physical harm, stalking, or loss of employment.<\/li>\n<li>Such information is usually obtained through illegal methods such as<strong> hacking or theft.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How to prevent?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Use strong passwords that are not repeated across platforms, and set up multi-factor authentication where possible.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid posting photos that reveal your neighbourhood, house facade, house keys, identifiable landmarks etc.<\/li>\n<li>Reporting through the <strong>National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal online<\/strong> etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>\u00a0Q1: What is hacking?<\/h3>\n<p>Hacking (also called cyber hacking) is the use of unconventional or illicit means to gain unauthorized access to a digital device, computer system or computer network.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/technology\/what-is-doxxing-and-what-can-you-do-if-it-happens-to-you\/article68045978.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is Doxxing and what can you do if it happens to you?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doxxing is a form of online harassment involving the publication of personal information about an individual without their consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}