If you are reading this blog, then there is a 99.99% chance that you have at least one social media account be it on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or anything else. In this digitized world, our online identity has become as important as our real-life identity and hence we need to take our online privacy very …
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While browsing the internet, you must have come across the term “VPN” quite a lot lately. Several websites and services recommend you to use a VPN to stay protected or stay anonymous, etc. It is likely that you might actually have used one of those either in your mobile phones in order to access some …
Passwords are nothing more than keys to our personal digital vaults and you don’t want anyone to enter your precious vault without your permission. The best way to achieve this is to have a password strong enough to prevent any chance of brute force password cracking. Here are a few types of password you must …
How active are you on the internet? Do you actively indulge in social media? Do you have multiple accounts across websites and actively do online shopping? Well, if you do, then there is always a risk associated with your digital identity and personal data. Let's just have a quick look at some of those risk-prone …
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The Internet is a powerful tool to “navigate” around the world virtually anywhere. In these times of pandemic, we are bound to rely on the internet for both essential and non-essential activities. We have listed 5 things you should definitely take into account while browsing online: Never use the same password for multiple accounts on …
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For most of us, our homes have turned into our offices. This has meant, we don't have to get up early to or travel to work, saving us a lot of time. Being able to do all this may seem like a blessing, but comes with its fair share of potential online security problems. The …
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If you’re someone who has been active on the internet amid this pandemic, then you must have been listening to a lot of news regarding Zoom- the Chinese video conferencing platform. The increased work from home culture during this lockdown across the world has caused an unprecedented hike of 280 million new accounts on this …
Let’s turn the clock back to the beginning of this year. Life across the globe went on the way it always has for most of us. We'd step out of our homes like we did everyday, go to work , meet friends and step out whenever we needed to. Things however, have changed significantly since …
4 things you should keep in mind during the ongoing pandemic to avoid identity theft COVID-19: The Coronavirus outbreak has crippled our world in the ways we would only have witnessed in our nightmares. Apart from the collapsing economy, one major change which this pandemic caused in our lives is that it made us completely …
Protection and privacy concerning data are interconnected, related to the collecting, storing and usage of data. There are a few differences - Data Privacy has to do with authorized access, who defines or accesses it. Data protection concerns securing it against unauthorized access. Protection is a technical issue, while privacy is a legal one. When …
