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How reputation management can help you stay private
Whether we realise it or not, we’ve continually left breadcrumbs of our personal lives across our social media accounts that have most likely been scraped, collected, and collated—all with the exp...
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Your old phone number is putting you at risk
If you’ve ever switched to a new phone number, chances are your old number will be reassigned to someone else. This practice of recycling phone numbers is standard, but it poses a significant privac...
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Here’s what vaccine scams look like
At the start of the pandemic outbreak, we saw an increase in Covid-related phishing and ransomware attacks. Now, as the world is starting to get vaccinated for the virus, phishers and scammers are try...
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Guide to data hoarding for the end of the world
This is it. The moment you’ve dreaded. The unexpected has finally happened. Either: The internet has collapsed Your government has suddenly declared it illegal to access the internet Everything aro...
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How to stop DDoS attacks on Xbox
DDoS attacks in gaming are once again in the spotlight following a recent cyberattack that resulted in outages affecting Xbox Live and a variety of Microsoft’s other services. Caused by a sudden inc...
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Why is my internet so slow? Wi-Fi speed issues and solutions
Picture this: You're in the middle of a video call, streaming your favorite show, or trying to download a large file, and you're left wondering, “Why is my internet so slow?” Slow internet can tur...
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Back to the office? 7 tips to protect your privacy at work
Love it or hate it, the WFH life might be coming to an end for many. As countries continue rolling out Covid-19 vaccination programs, we can expect restrictions on movement to ease, with companies exp...
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Big Tech censoring you? Try a distributed social network
In January 2021, Poland proposed a law requiring social-media companies to restore any posts that the platforms had deleted, as long as the posts weren’t unlawful. This came days after several of fo...
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Don't post your vaccine cards on social media
As exciting as it is to share the news that you’ve been vaccinated, try to avoid showing photos of your Covid-19 vaccine cards—given to inoculated people as a record—on social media. The vaccine...
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Free and open-source software (FOSS): Pros and cons for security
Free and open-source software (FOSS), as the name suggests, is the crossover between free software and open-source software. While there are similarities between the two, there are some subtle differe...
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