You’ve all probably heard about Amazon’s improvement; they created different types of shops, bookstores, grocery stores, shops that are selling prepared and cooked food – and they’ve owned Whole Foods Markets for four past years. However, the launch of new stores induced public concern over cyber security and data privacy. So we’ll take a closer […]
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For years, Facebook workers have been repeating the slogan “you control who can see what on Facebook,” but the truth is entirely different. While you can somehow control what other users see from your profile, Facebook is the one who knows and sees everything. Although Facebook assures you that all this information is needed to
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You should be aware that someone or even more than one person is watching you all the time. Not directly through your laptop camera, but your every move is tracked. People think that deleting stuff on your device means that no one can see it, but in fact, all of the tracks still exist. Anything
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A couple of years ago, famous TV host Jimmy Fallon impersonated Chris Rock while he had a full face of brown makeup. He didn’t mean anything wrong by what he did, and he apologized multiple times, but people thought it was racist. That wasn’t bothering Chris because they are good friends, and it was obviously
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If you have weak login credentials, you can consider yourself exposed to cyber attacks, phishing, or identity theft. Banks, credit card companies, even social networks these days started to use two-factor authentication. If you’re not quite sure how to use it, you should check how it works. What is 2-factor authentication? Two-factor authentication offers a
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There is a large selection of free and paid options for antivirus software, and Windows itself comes with its virus protection, called Windows Defender. Is it good enough? If you’re using newer Windows, Windows Defender automatically gets operating systems and is ready to go right away. However, this fact begs an interesting question: can this
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Educational institutions are in great danger as cybercriminals attack various schools, teachers, and students all over the country. In 2020 alone, a K-12 Cyber Incident Map recorded that 408 schools became victims of cybercrime. Various educational institutions were forced to pay millions of dollars—or else confidential information about their students and their staff would be
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It might not surprise that the companies that provide financial services are a popular target for cybercriminals. After all, they work with money and sensitive data that hackers could use in many ways, from fraud schemes and identity thefts to simply stealing money or selling data on the dark web. The research found that the financial industry
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People from all age groups are on the internet today, but it is a fact that teenagers might be using it the most. As an adult, especially if you have had access to the internet since you were a teenager, some things might start boring you. Still, for teenagers, everything is somewhat new and exciting,
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QR (quick response) codes are small squares with unique black and white patterns that contain certain information, just like barcodes on the products we can buy and scan in any store. We will talk about QR Codes in this article. They were first invented in 1994, when the Japanese company Denso Wave, a Toyota subsidiary,
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