Privacy

Over the past year, the world has gotten more comfortable with maintaining a steady online presence. From attending countless Zoom meetings to watching friends getting married on Youtube, we’ve all become best friends with our electronic devices.  In 2021, the average person spends almost three hours a day on social media, not including time spent working at a PC. Over ...

Who would ever want to encounter shocking incidents? Well, No one. For instance you forgot to backup WhatsApp messages on iPhone and you just get this shocking scene in front of you that your kid has deleted the app accidentally and you just lost all your data. You will obviously hold yourself responsible for not protecting your WhatsApp data. To ...

Gaining access to internet connections in remote areas is difficult under restrictive conditions. But remote access is quite common these days and the ease with which accessibility has increased, it has given boost to flexibility in users on file access. The internal private networks are insecure and are being accessed from various places like homes, airports and from access points ...

In the modern era of today, privacy and security are two essential things every web user should possess at all times. When you browse through the web, making use of a virtual private network, you can be safely assured that your activities online are guaranteed fully secure and private. So what exactly does a VPN do and why is it ...

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You decide to buy a new car so you spend a lot of time shopping and bargaining. However, when you get the price you want, the whole deal falls through because the credit check fails. You wonder what happened – you’ve been making payments on time and keeping your credit balances to a minimum. It turns out that someone has ...

Anti-virus is dated. So are hackers. Everybody knows what an anti-virus does – kill and mutate viruses. Everybody knows that hackers steal your personal information. However, did you know that you might be feeding in your personal information to the hackers by what you’re typing in on your keyboards? Yes, the menace of keyloggers is a real one. Usually called ...

One only has to think of the PRISM fiasco to realise the importance of VPNs. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. Think of it as a mask that your connection to the internet wears – it hides your activity like a real private network would without actually connecting to one. It keeps your internet activity safe from the websites you ...

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of 3M for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Data breaches present huge costs to organizations and small businesses alike. Furthermore, they are considered the most common type of security failures at the workplace. Even we speak, studies have it that companies are attacked at an average of 16, 856 ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unearthed an alarmingly violating problem with the latest Android Phones (3.1 and above). Users choose to share their locations via Facebook, Twitter and other networks frequently but their android phones’ releasing that information without their permission is considered to be a serious violation of privacy indeed. EFF found that information about the location of ...