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6 Tips to Protect Yourself from Holiday Shopping Scammers

  Holiday planning is incomplete without shopping. Your friends and family unite to enjoy every bit of the moment. In those family times, you ensure to have everything with you. After COVID-19, people found online shopping more relevant and reliable. The graph for online shopping exponentially increased. This exponential increase in the graph of online shopping resulted in major cyber threats. There are many scams and frauds registered due to online shopping. The scammers stole your personal information like bank details, your present id, etc., and then blackmail you or clear your bank account without your knowledge. I’m sure you don’t want to spoil your holiday with such cyber scams. If you want a solution for such major problems, then follow these simple tips and secure your family and friends. 1)   Avoid suspicious emails During the holiday time, if you receive some suspicious mail that addresses some exciting offers or deals then it could be a trap. Don’t click on the lin...

How Do Hackers Hack Phones and How Can I Prevent It?

  How much does your phone privacy matter to you? I’m sure you are ready to go the extra mile when it comes to your phone security. Don’t worry there are plenty of ways in which you can secure your phone from hackers.  But before that, you must know all the possible ways a hacker can use to hack your phone along with its prevention. How do hackers hack your privacy through your phone? With emerging technology, there are plenty of simplified ways in which one can hack your phone. Hackers evolve various ways to hack your privacy. They usually target the user's vulnerabilities in their ways of operating the phones. They trick the user in various ways: - 1)   Phishing Phishing attacks involve the technique of delivering fake messages that seem to be from a reliable source. Email is frequently used for this. Phishing begins with a phony email or other communication meant to seduce a target. The communication is crafted to appear to be from a reliable sender. If the victim fal...

How to safeguard yourself from banking Trojans?

  Malicious computer software known as a "Banker Trojan" is intended to get access to material and/or confidential information that is handled or stored by online banking systems. This kind of software may copy a bank customer's login information by impersonating a financial institution's login page or it may be created with a backdoor that allows unauthorized individuals to access a computer. The Banker Trojan is a Trojan horse that diverts visitors away from online banking and financial websites and onto another website, purportedly one that the attacker controls. The software replicates itself onto the host computer when it is run, making registry entries and building folders that are used every time the system is booted. It looks for specific cookie files related to personal finance that were downloaded by financial websites and kept on the user's machine during a web session. Numerous actions can be carried out by the Trojan horse, including running executabl...

Privacy, Identity, and Device Protection: Why You Need to Invest in All Three

  Our dependency on the internet has increased with time. We rely on the internet when it comes to reading, socializing, shopping, playing games, and whatnot. As a result, all our personal information is online. Here comes the real threat. So we need to keep ourselves secure to protect the device from all malware. Privacy protection Basically, it is an act where the personal information of users is protected from all evil organizations, advertisers, and cyber criminals. It only takes a few considerate changes to your regular browsing, emailing, and social media behavior to secure your online privacy. 1) The way you use your social media account. Are you the one who shares all your personal details online? It could be anything, like a pin to your location, sharing photos, addresses, birthdays, and many such details. If yes, then you need to take some serious action. You need to immediately cut your online broadcasting habit on the internet. Hackers take undue advantage of these ...

Staying safe while gaming: how to ensure your children don’t become victims of financial fraud

  Time has changed and with time the entire scenario of gaming has also changed. If it’s been a long time since you have not played any game, then it will surprise you. Sadly, in today’s time, cybercriminals are targeting children who play online games. The majority of players in today's games participate in communities. As they compete and cooperate in magnificently created worlds, they all feel a sense of kinship and teamwork. Playing video games is popular among individuals of all ages, but particularly among kids and teenagers. You should know what your kids are doing online as a parent, though, so that you can monitor it. Research says that online gaming might result in cyberattacks. Ransomware, phishing, credit card or identity theft, cyberbullying, and other issues could pose safety risks in gaming. But there's yet another significant opportunity for deception in today's games. Microtransactions are a term you've heard of if you're a parent of kids who play v...

What Is Doxxing? How to Safeguard Yourself From It?

 Can your social media account be a threat to you? Is sharing personal information could harm you? Umm maybe no or maybe yes! Doxxing is nothing but when your personal information is used against you on public forums. Doxxing is a type of internet harassment in which someone's private information, such as their name, address, or phone number, is shared. Without the victim's permission, doxxers will seek, gather, and publicly disclose personally-identifying information. This frequently results in the victim being the focus of new forms of harassment from those who have learned about the leaked information. The term "doxxing" is derived from the practice known as "dropping dox," How to safeguard yourself from doxxing? You can protect yourself from doxxing through some simple steps. You just need to take the right set of precautions. K7 Computing Private Limited, 4th Floor, Tek Meadows,51, Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), Sholinganallur, Chennai - 600119. Telephone: +...