How to create strong passwords
Combine unrelated words to make stronger passwords Certain words should be avoided in all passwords Use different passwords for every account Use a password manager to remember all your passwords…
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The 3 Best Antivirus Software with Free Parental Controls 2020
After my son’s Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 got infected by ransomware, I realized that the parental control apps I had been using were not offering enough protection. I ultimately needed to find an…
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Working Remotely for the First Time? Here Are 5 Tips From Our All-Remote Team
In the wake of COVID-19, people around the world are taking extraordinary measures to curb its spread. One striking change for many people is suddenly finding themselves working remotely, and…
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How to Protect Your Privacy on iPhone
You might also be interested in our privacy tips for Android. Follow these easy steps to protect the personal data on your iPhone or iPad. 1. Lock your device with a passcode longer than 4 digits.…
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Think you have a strong password? Hackers crack 16-character passwords in less than an HOUR
During an experiment for Ars Technica hackers managed to crack 90% of 16,449 hashed passwords Six passwords were cracked each minute including 16-character versions such as ‘qeadzcwrsfxv1331’ A…
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Aptik – A Tool to Backup and Restore System Settings and Data in Ubuntu
Ubuntu offering the feature rich upgrade utility which used to upgrade the Ubuntu operating system from one version to another version (Latest released version) smoothly without any critical…
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Marketing is more complex than ever
More channels, more content, more formats. If you’re a marketer, this likely sounds familiar to you. Today, marketing teams have a dizzying array of digital tools and tactics at their disposal to…
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DynDNS is untrustworthy
Yes it is! How can you trust someone who changes the pricing every year that you need to pay them? It all started for free, then 25$ / year. Now it’s up to 55$ / year and really who knows what it…
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How to Live Without Google
Remove Google from your life? Yes, it can be done! Google trackers have been found on 75% of the top million websites. This means they are not only tracking what you search for, they’re also…
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donttrack.us
Google trackers are lurking on 75% of websites. This means they are not only tracking what yousearch for, they’re also tracking which websites you visit. Google uses your data for ads that follow…
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How to Protect Your Privacy on Linux
1. Don’t be complacent because you’re running Linux! It’s easy to have a false sense of security, thinking that other operating system might be more targeted than Linux, but there are plenty of…
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A guide to WordPress security
Roughly 30,000 websites are hacked every day. Could your website become one of them? In a perfect world, using a popular content management system like WordPress would end many security woes — but…
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The Slow Death of Traditional Media
Desperation time as old guard clings to falling market share Bill Gates once famously said that we systematically overestimate the change that will occur in two years, while underestimating the…
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Password Manager Apps
There are different policies for the generation of secure passwords. However, one of the biggest challenges is to memorize all these complex passwords. Password manager applications are a…
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Your Hot Hands Can Give Away Your Smartphone PIN
Thermal images reveal what parts of the screen were tapped, even after it’s left untouched for 30 seconds. If you were protecting your smartphone passcode from someone lurking over your shoulder,…
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What the CIA WikiLeaks dump tells us: Encryption works
NEW YORK (AP) — If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, it’s that data-scrambling encryption works, and the industry should use more of it. Documents…
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What Does a Secure Web Connection Actually Do?
When surfing the web, you want to keep your personal information private, not leaving it open to be spied on by Internet Service Providers or other people on your network. For this purpose, an…
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Google’s Allo app can reveal to your friends what you’ve searched
Google’s mobile messaging app Allo can reveal your Google search history to people you message, which could have big privacy implications. The behavior appears to be a glitch. I noticed the…
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How To Protect Your Privacy On Linux
1. Don’t be complacent because you’re running Linux! It’s easy to have a false sense of security, thinking that other operating system might be more targeted than Linux, but there are plenty of…
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VPN Review
Online privacy is a major concern for many internet users in the U.S and https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/best-vpn-for-usa/ explains how to find the best VPN in order to avoid…
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Hackers, Trackers and Snoops: Our Privacy Survey Results
Mozilla polled 30,000+ Internet users about privacy and security online. This is what they said. Protecting our privacy and staying secure in the physical world is second nature. We lock our doors…
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Gabriel Weinberg DuckDuckGo CEO Interview
Gabriel Weinberg is the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo, a popular and highly polished search engine that respects your privacy. Gabriel was recently kind enough to grant me an interview in which we…
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Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops
The audio driver installed on some HP laptops includes a feature that could best be described as a keylogger, which records all the user’s keystrokes and saves the information to a local file,…
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The Key Differences in Demographics for the Top 7 Social Networks
In today’s multi-platform world, the smart businesses are tailoring their messages to audiences based on a variety of factors. Of course, there are the benefits and limitations to each platform to…
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Researchers found it is scarily easy to crack Android users’ lock screen patterns
An Android lock screen pattern being entered.Sam Shead/BI If you use a lock screen pattern to protect your Android phone, it’s a lot less secure than you might think. That’s the message from…
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Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online
If you’re like me, one of the first things you do in the morning is check your email. And, if you’re like me, you also wonder who else has read your email. That’s not a paranoid concern. If you…
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A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s privacy policy
In Britain, more than half of 12- to 15-year-olds are on Instagram, according to OfCom (pdf), the country’s communications regulator. So are 43% of 8- to 11-year-olds. But how many of them…
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Majority of Android VPNs can’t be trusted to make users more secure
Study of nearly 300 apps finds shocking omissions, including a failure to encrypt. Over the past half-decade, a growing number of ordinary people have come to regard virtual private networking…
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15 Privacy Tips to Protect Your Online Life
With the internet becoming a popularly growing resource, not just for fun and leisure activities but also for learning and being aware of important things, it’s becoming harder for people to…
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EFF: “We’re Halfway to Encrypting the Entire Web”
The movement to encrypt the web has reached a milestone. As of earlier this month, approximately half of Internet traffic is now protected by HTTPS. In other words, we are halfway to a web safer…
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List of Sites possibly affected by Cloudflare’s #Cloudbleed HTTPS Traffic Leak
This is a (work-in-progress) list of domains possibly affected by the CloudBleed HTTPS traffic leak. Original vuln thread by Google Project Zero. DISCLAIMER: This list contains all domains that…
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Why Metadata Matters
In the context of digital communications, metadata is the digital equivalent of an envelope—it’s information about the communications you send and receive. The subject line of your emails, the…
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Lavabit — Encrypted Email Service Once Used by Snowden, Is Back
Texas-based Encrypted Email Service ‘Lavabit,’ that was forced to shut down in 2013 after not complying with a court order demanding access to SSL keys to snoop on Edward Snowden’s emails, is…
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DuckDuckGo: what is it and how does it work?
Increased state surveillance, countless security breaches and widespread concern about data sharing have spooked many of us into wanting to protect our privacy more than ever. Despite bubbling…
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Play Privacy As A Team Sport
Protecting digital privacy is a job no one can do alone. While there are many steps you can take to protect your own privacy, the real protection comes when we recognize that privacy is a team…
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3 Ways To Remove EXIF MetaData From Photos (And Why You Might Want To)
Did you know that most cameras embed hidden information, called metadata, into every photograph taken? And when you share those images, say by uploading them to a social network, that hidden…
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How to Delete Your Google Search History
Let’s face it: there are few things more embarrassing than your Google search history. That’s why you periodically clear out your browser history in case someone asks to use your computer, only to…
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Software with the most vulnerabilities in 2015
Which software had the most publicly disclosed vulnerabilities this year? The winner is none other than Apple’s Mac OS X, with…
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