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How witches, wizards and superheroes can help your kids stay safe from cyber-villains, plus other parenting hacks to encourage your children to use secure passwords While many of today’s parents grew up during an age where the internet and the world wide web were just in their beginnings, for today’s kids the virtual world is…

Millions of Brits could be at risk of cyberattacks due to poor default passwords and a lack of firmware updates Millions of Brits use Wi-Fi routers that contain various security flaws and may put them at risk of cyberattacks, an investigation by British consumer watchdog Which? has found. Together with Red Maple Technologies, Which? looked at 13…

Your account won’t be deleted, but here’s what you may want to be aware of if not even repeated reminders do the trick WhatsApp users have several weeks to accept the app’s updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service that require sharing data with Facebook or else they’ll have some of the app’s key features…

Some personal information just doesn’t age – here’s what the Facebook data leak may mean for you ‘Half a billion Facebook users’ data breached’, this or something very similar is a headline you may have seen in the media in recent days. Any data breach, especially one that affects such a large quantity of users,…

The treasure trove of data reportedly includes users’ LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers and workplace information Mere days after news broke of a data leak that impacted more than half a billion Facebook users, another massive batch of people’s personal information is being offered for sale on a hacking forum. This time…

Reports of another trove of scraped user data add to the recent woes of popular social media platforms It seems that threat actors are increasingly setting their sights on extracting vast amounts of user data from social media platforms. The cascade of incidents started off last week with a data leak impacting more than half…

An attacker can lock you out of the app using just your phone number and without requiring any action on your part If you use WhatsApp, you may want to be wary of an attack where cybercriminals could suspend your account using only your phone number. The underlying loophole abuses a lapse in security of…

Authorities step in to thwart attacks leveraging the recently-disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has carried out a court-approved operation to “copy and remove” malicious web shells from hundreds of systems across the US that were compromised through the mass exploitation of zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server…

Other common and easily hackable password choices include the names of relatives and sports teams, a UK study reveals As many as 15% of Brits use their pets’ names as passwords to “protect” their online accounts, according to the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). The agency cited figures from a survey that revealed…

Here are some quick and easy tips to help you clean up your cyber-clutter and keep your digital footprint tidy You’ve probably heard the phrase “digital footprint” before, but do you really know what it is? Your social media content, various online payment transactions, location history, emails sent, messages sent through instant messaging platforms, and…