BANGALORE: When NikitaShenoy, a 38-year-old finance professional, realized her 14-year-old son is most of the time on the internet, she decided to keep track of him on cyber space.Aghast by the type of websites he accesses daily, she decided to password protect the desktop at home. However, her worries reached an alarming proportion when the smart young man cracked the password and continued with his digital journey.

What’s more, he had already shared his personal info with many faceless friends and had the PC ruined to spam through a link sent by one such friend.