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Google Offers a Quiz to Help You Identify Phishing Scams
Can you spot when you're being phished? If you paused for a second, you might want to take a phishing quiz designed to demonstrate how to separate fake emails from legitimate ones. The questionnaire is offered by...
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If You Care About Your Cloud Identity, a Good Password Is the #1 Thing to Take Care Of
While Cloud computing can provide system resources, such as storage, available on demand without the user having to play an active role in its management, the security of the Cloud is still the user's concern. In...
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What Is a Drive-By Download Attack and How Does It Work?
The information security industry can be a rather strange place sometimes, especially when it comes to terms and definitions. There is a lot of confusion and debate even around subjects that we should know very well...
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Why Are People Covering the Cameras on Their Laptops and Phones?
Last year, Lenovo unveiled its 2018 laptop models and proudly announced that they come with a brand new feature – a built-in cover the slides over the webcam and ensures that nobody can spy on you. Peculiarly, they...
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Secure Your Credit Card Data by Avoiding These 7 Situations
If you have a credit card, you might be in the habit of whipping it out at a moment's notice. Whether you are shopping in a physical store or online, sharing your card details might seem like no big deal at all....
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What Are Web Cookies and How Are They Connected to Your Passwords
Most of you have probably conceded by now that staying anonymous on the internet is all but impossible for the regular user. Using a tiny file known as a cookie, online service providers can learn quite a lot about...
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How to Change Your Aol Mail Password on your iPhone or Webpage
It's always a good idea to routinely change your password. That includes your social media, your online forum accounts, your apps etc. AIM Mail and AOL Mail passwords are no exception, even though you think most...
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If You Game Online, You Want to Follow These 5 Simple Rules to Protect Yourself
Gaming, like everything else, has evolved quite a bit over the last few years. In the past, you'd invite your friends to your house and you'd either play against each other using the game's split-screen functionality...
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What Is Smart Banking and How to Ensure That You Are Safe Using It?
Banking used to be quite different back in the days. Even simple tasks like checking your balance and withdrawing money meant queueing, looking over your shoulder all the time because you have quite a lot of cash with...
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Got $50? That's Enough to Buy Someone's Online Identity
Having your online identity compromised can bring you a lot of grief, and in some cases, financial damages. Few people think about this when they're signing up for various online services using weak passwords or when...
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How to Ensure Your Smartphone Is Not Being Used to Spy on You
Modern technology and privacy don't always go hand in hand. The presence of the word 'smart' in a device's name means that the gadget 'knows' quite a lot about its owner, and often, manufacturers are willing to share...
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Make Sure You Are Safe If You Got a Fitness Tracker for Christmas
Why do we buy fitness trackers and apps? It's obvious: because they're supposed to help us get in better physical shape. How often, however, do you think about how they do it? You probably know the answer, but you...
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Can You Trust Companies That Have Experienced Data Breaches?
Personal data is one of the most valuable commodities you can collect, buy, and sell in the modern world. Despite this, very few of us spare as much as a thought about how a vendor is handling our names, email...
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Top 10 Tips That Will Help You Secure Passwords in 2019
Have you made any New Year's resolutions yet? Maybe you decided to take your health under control, or maybe you decided to read more. Whatever it is, we suggest adding one more goal, and that is to take care of...
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The Most Popular Passwords of 2018 Are an Embarrassment
Passwords have become an integral part of our lives, and we probably don't even think much about it when we have to make new ones. However, just like with anything else in the world, there are good passwords and bad...
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2018 Cybersecurity Roundup: What Went Wrong and What We Learned
Throughout 2018 we got so used to stolen passwords and personal information that sometimes we don't even blink anymore when a cyber attack happens. Only the most significant cases make the news nowadays, and quite a...
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Two-Factor SMS Authentication Will Not Protect You If Hackers Can Intercept Your Messages
For the sake of simplicity, experts often describe two-factor authentication (2FA) as a system that lets you log in to your account only if you provide something you know as well as something you have. The thing you...
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Alert: Ransomware Can Slither in If Your Passwords Are Weak
Email is a very effective way of distributing all sorts of malware, and there are a few very good reasons for this. First of all, everybody has an email account. Although we have other means of communication, we still...
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