Every smartphone and tablet owner wants his or her device to be secure and private. We want our contacts, photos, documents, let alone financial data be protected from any thieves and Internet fraudsters. Guaranteed security is not an easy thing to achieve, but there are still many things you can do to significantly increase […] ...
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Hi! It’s Mr. Whoer, and today I will tell you how to save your money on the Internet. The idea for this article was conceived after the following story that happened to me lately. I was going home on the subway and suddenly received a short text on my phone from my bank notifying me […] ...
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Internet safety for children: children love Internet very much, but how safe is it for them? Unfortunately, dangers are very common, be it social networks, online games, chat rooms or other websites. Your kid can meet a bad friend or catch some virus. If you are a parent, follow these 5 easy, but effective guides […] ...
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Each hour, thousands of users seek and find various information online. However, as they use the Internet for their private purposes, they leave traces about who they are. These traces may help third parties identify the user fully or in part. Every time you access the Web, you first obtain and then provide an […] ...
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Almost everyone these days has heard about “anonymous Web surfing” that allows visit websites while preventing anyone from collecting one’s personal information and/or Web history. Well, at least in theory, since proxy services vary on quality. Such services hide your IP address and disable cookies, logging, and other types of direct and indirect spying on […] ...
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Sometimes it seems that everyone is concerned about his or her privacy online. Various leaks and security scandals in media only add to this global craze. Trying to secure their privacy, users turn to various free proxy services that are abundant today, as well as VPN (Virtual Network Network) services which are also free. But […] ...
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The number of online retail fraud attempts increased significantly in 2015. According to ACI Worldwide, the growth was 30%. The security firm analyzed hundreds of millions of transactions with large retailers. In 2015, one out of 86 transactions were fraudulent or fraud attempts. This is more than in 2014, when 1 out of 114 […] ...
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A new spying device called InterApp allows to stealthily collect a lot of personal information of mobile device users in the proximity. Just plug it in a wall somewhere in an airport, hotel, or mall, and it will collect massive amounts of data from devices using just a Wi-Fi connection without their users knowing anything. […] ...
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A single hacker managed to steal quite a lot of online credentials – 1.2 billion (!). A hacker known as Mr. Grey (or “Mistergray”) stole exactly this number of login-password pairs from various online accounts. According to the FBI, it’s the biggest number of credentials it has ever investigated, and Mr. Grey is somehow affiliated […] ...
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Apple issued a patch for a serious vulnerability in iTunes Store and App Store that allowed remote attackers to inject code into Apple’s invoices that come to users after they buy something whether via app or desktop browser. This vulnerability, first reported by security researcher Benjamin Mejri, could potentially lead to grave problems for […] ...
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