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Are You Using World's Most Common Passwords? If Yes, You Need To Read This.

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Are You Using World's Most Common Passwords? If Yes, You Need To Read This. Generally, we keep a simple password for our convenience. In laziness, we use characters and letters that can be easily typed. In this way, we only help hackers.  In 2017, there were 10 passwords that were the most vulnerable and the hackers were also happy. The first 123456 password in the list of easily hacked passwords. 123456789 is also very easy and most convenient for hackers. In addition, the computer keyboard Qwerty format is also the most hacker-friendly password used in the year 2017. Easily remember this password is very dangerous and it gives the hackers a meagre field. If the password is 111111 , change it immediately. The simple 1234567890 password in typing is also very harmful to people. If 1234567 has a password, then replace it with a custom password. Some people just make the password a password . This password is very unsafe. 123123 is in ninth place with ...

6 tips to keep your WhatsApp secure

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6 tips to keep your WhatsApp secure Over 1.3 billion people use WhatsApp app every day to connect with family and friends. Users share more than simple text messages; they send photos, videos, personal data, bank account or other financial details, etc. on the Facebook-owned messenger app. If a user's WhatsApp account gets hacked, the attackers can know everything about them. Here are 6 tricks to secure your WhatsApp acco unt! 1.  Two-step verification : Use a secure PIN to protect your account WhatsApp offers " Two-Step Verification " feature to add an extra layer of security to the account. It can be activated under Settings>Account>Two-Step Verification>Activate . Users need to set up a 6-digit PIN and provide an email address to disable the feature if they forget the PIN. It is helpful when the user's mobile is stolen, or someone tries to re-verify the user's account on another device. 2.  Is backing up WhatsApp messages...

Top 10 Features of New Android Oreo

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Top 10 Features of New Android Oreo Google finally announced the 8th version of Android. Android O is now officially Android Oreo preceded by Android Nougat. The all new Android Oreo of Google has entered for carrier testing in Pixel and Nexus devices. It will roll out widely to other devices very soon. Android Oreo includes all the features that were promised at the Google I/O such as Picture-in-Picture, notification improvements, scanning of all the apps in Google Play, Autofill tool that fills the personal information and passwords quickly and securely and etc. Let’s take a closer look at the prominent features that you can expect from this latest version of Android. 1. Picture-In-Picture The much-awaited picture-in-picture feature is here. It allows the user to perform multiple tasks. For example, you can check your email while video calling your friends by opening two apps simultaneously. This would look cool for phones with large screens. You need to enable this featu...

Mobile Security—How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices, Actually?

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Mobile Security—How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices, Actually? Whether it’s searching embarrassing symptoms or letting curiosity win and checking out the latest photo leak, we all get up to some questionable things online from time to time—things we wouldn’t want our boss or maybe even friends to know. We aren’t ones to judge, but if you think that in this day-in-age you’re just as safe (or safer) doing all that on your smartphone as your PC, you might want to reconsider. For example, a recent study examining 10,000 mobile devices in the UK and the US, showed that 40 of the 50 top porn sites were susceptible to software that may harm your phone badly. Another security report issued by Nokia in March 2017, revealed a new all-time high in mobile device infection rates—a stunning 400 percent increase over last year! Spyware that exposes your text messages, contact lists, GPS coordinates and other data that you’d rather kept to yourself, hits both Android and iOS-run devices. Yet ...

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