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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...

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 ...

 How to Find the Creation Date of Your Google Account? If you think, it is impossible for you to retrieve the Creation Date of your Google account. Wait you are wrong! Yes you heard it Right! you are wrong because I am going to let you know a Simple Trick to find out your Gmail Account Creation Date. Finding Your Google Account Creation Date in just 4 easy steps. 1. From a PC/Laptop, log in to your Gmail. Then, click the G ear icon to access your Account Settings.                                                  2. Now click on Settings.                   3. Now on the tabs look for ' Forwarding and POP/IMAP', and click on it.  4.Now see POP download section,   1. Status:  POP is enabled  for all mail that has arrived since 04/10/14 Many of your friends still mus...

Facebook has introduced a new tool that empowers group admins to temporarily turn off a member's ability to comment and post. Admins can also remove members who violate their community's rules from multiple groups they manage in a single click, Facebook said. These are among a slew of new tools that the social media giant announced late on Thursday for group admins to help them grow and manage their communities with ease. To help members easily identify group leaders and other members, the social media giant also introduced badges for group admins, moderators and new members. To introduced new members to existing members of the group, admins can now write a welcome post that will automatically tag new joiners, Facebook said. A new feature called member profiles was also unveiled. Now, when group members click on another person's name they will be directed to a group-specific profile, based on publicly-available information like things they may share in commo...