browser settings Most modern browsers have customizable settings that allow you to improve the security and privacy of your online activity. In Mozilla Firefox, this is done by doing the following (without negatively impacting the user experience or disabling key website features): Open the "Menu" icon directly under the close icon and go to "Options", …
Passwords and account credentials are compromised on a daily basis. Some of these breaches result in tens of millions of accounts breached and information being leaked online. In 2008, a data breach at MySpace resulted in 360 million accounts being exposed and in 2019, Verifications.io (email verification service)
Do you use Whatsapp? If so, you are likely to have come across a new privacy policy, coming into effect February this year. Fortunately, there are alternatives when it comes to data privacy and security - one such messaging app is Signal.Here are some key features:• End-to-end encryption (via Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman key exhange with …
Have you ever wondered what your mobile apps are doing in the background and who they are connecting to? NetGuard VPN is one app that can, inter alia, monitor app activity, report attempts to connect to internet, log data useage per IP used by apps, log ports used and log IP addresses reached by applications.Here …
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Typically, when it comes to cybersecurity, there is a playoff between convenience and security. Nobody enjoys remembering (multiple unique) passwords, inputting two-factor authentication, or being limited to what programs they can use on their work laptops because of a "security policy". What it boils down to, is the more convenient something is, the less secure …
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