Cyber Safety Case File · Student Challenge

Riya, a BCA student, is working on her college project at a café near her college. She notices a free Wi-Fi network named “College_Free_WiFi” and connects to it. The network seems to work normally: she can browse the internet, access her email, and upload project files to a cloud-storage service.

A few days later, Riya receives a security alert from her cloud-storage provider. The alert says that her project file was accessed from an unfamiliar device and that her account password was changed. She also notices suspicious login attempts on her college portal. Riya is worried and wonders whether the Wi-Fi network was genuine.

Your mission: analyse the evidence, identify the likely network-security risk, and choose actions that would reduce the chance of a similar incident. The case does not prove exactly how the account was compromised; select the most reasonable conclusions from the information provided.