Over 4 billion people use mobile phone devices for communication, entertainment, and business round the clock. Now,  being productive is not possible without a smartphone. But some of these abundant mobile users create security threats for everyone that can hurt you financially, socially, and personally. Imagine someone steals your banking information from your cellphone and […]

Since the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic, online learning has become Theo order of the day. For most schools and students, online learning became a substitution of learning at school. Nevertheless, remote learning seems to end soon enough as the pandemic comes to an end. Now, parents are busy preparing their children for back to […]

Hacking has a bad image, yet some hackers render the internet a better and safer place. Whether they employ their capabilities for good or evil, hackers possess a wide range of abilities. Indeed, most people held negative attitude toward hacking. But can hacking be beneficial? The answer is suprisingly YES. That is, hacking can be […]

Consider the following scenario: you have employee salary information stored on your computer. Right before the monthly payment, you turn on your device and are greeted with a flashing red screen alerting you that your data have been encrypted and that you must pay $ 700 to get them decrypted. It seems that you have […]

Today, almost everybody has a smartphone. These smartphones assist us in connecting to friends through calls and social media, carrying out transactions through our banks, keeping medical records, education, etc. Smartphones have enabled us to store our information and files in the cloud for easy access and retrieved from anywhere. It’s thus no doubt that […]

Every so often we start getting calls from unknown number that we do not recognize. More often than not, these are completely random numbers that we do not even have saved in our contacts list. While a lot of people would simply pick it up, there are still quite a few who would not. Your […]

When a process of purchasing and selling occurs via the internet, we refer to it as online transactions. When a customer buys a product or service online, he or she uses an online transaction to pay for it. An online transaction is a payment system in which we send funds or money over the internet via […]

Hiding our IP addresses no longer signifies looking to partake in something deep, dark and mysterious anymore. When confronted with the idea of shrouding anything from prying eyes, especially on the internet. Most people immediately think of illegal activity. Downloading copious amounts of illegal material from the internet without being tracked, sounds brilliant right? However, […]

Are you ever just sitting down with your friends and talking about a hiking trip that you have been meaning to take for a few months now? Amid the conversation, you glance down at your phone and swipe through your Facebook. And you might immediately notice several ads for sleeping tents, hiking gear, and bags. […]

Do you have any knowledge of Cloud Storage? Cloud storage is a cloud computing concept. It means that data is stored on the Internet by a cloud computing provider. And the cloud computing provider maintains and administers data storage as a service on a subscription basis. If you can save documents and media on the […]

Email Service Provider is a piece of software. It allows an organization to maintain and distribute email marketing messages. An uncomplicated way of explaining it is that email service providers are technology firms. These companies let individuals create email groups and deliver emails more easily. As e-marketing has grown in popularity, a growing number of […]

Tinder is an extremely popular dating platform used by people from around the globe. From the funny screenshots of chats on Reddit to Tinder videos on YouTube, the platform has been popular since its inception in late 2012. The main concept behind the app is simple. To swipe right to “like” someone based on their […]

It is very difficult to say that we have never used any service offered by the Big Tech Companies. After all, who else provides better services to the wider market than them?  If a corporation handles data gathering and analysis efficiently, it has access to a plethora of information about customer behavior. Companies utilize this […]

Email is one of the communication platforms you have come across. Email is often used for sensitive communications. For instance, the sensitive information must remain confidential. You may find everything from love notes to account confirmations in our mailboxes. Only one problem: emails are designed to allow for two-way conversation by default. That is to […]

Was it ever dawned on you that, when you use a search engine, the search engine is often exploiting you as well? Most search engines, including Google, filter among your search engine results to get the information you want. This violates your right to privacy on the Internet by looking into your data. DuckDuckGo, on […]

Everyone who opens an Instagram account has a profile and a news feed, just like Facebook or Twitter. Instagram allows you to post photos, videos, and stories on your profile. When you post a photo or video, it appears on your profile. Your posts appear in the feeds of other users who follow you. Similarly, […]

Cybersecurity is one of the most sensitive topics of 2022 a s the world is becoming more connected thanks to the internet and our entire lives and moving from the physical world to the digital. We are using our handheld devices more. And we spend time without the internet feels like a prison sentence. While […]

The dark web has definitely become a lot more popular nowadays even though it requires special means to access it. The Onion Router or Tor for short is a system of layered “nodes” each of which acts as individual VPNs of sorts to hide your online identity. But more importantly, it also lets you connect […]