Information Security & Privacy in Real life - Threats & Mitigations: A Review

In this era when the whole world is worried due to terrorist attacks, even our Cyber World is not untouched by this. Even in this virtual world the property of users is not secure due to cyber attack which is a thinkable, critical issue. As it is an old saying that prevention is better than cure, so this applies in this case too. Now a day almost everybody is having a digital life and they left trails of sensitive user data behind them and attackers use these trails for getting all the credentials and sensitive information regarding that user. Information privacy and security are two main aspects for prevention from the cyber attacks and in this review paper we are going to focus on both of these issues. This review paper covers all the issues regarding threats related to the personal data of common users and how to secure that from the attacks.