A 19-year-old college student from Florida recently caused the richest person in the world Elon Musk a headache after he created a Twitter bot to track his private jet. Elon Musk offered the student a money to shut down the program and the student countered offered but Musk didn’t respond after that. Jack Sweeney, a …
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Virtual Private Network (VPN) Using a VPN establishes an encrypted connection (sometimes referred to as a “tunnel”) between your device and a remote server run by a VPN service. All of your internet traffic is routed through this tunnel to the server, which then forwards it to the public internet as usual. Data returning to your …
What is end-to-end encryption? End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a secure communication technology that prevents third parties from acquiring access to data as it travels from one end system or device to another. In E2EE, the data is encrypted on the sender’s system or device, and only the intended recipient can decrypt it. As it travels …
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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, introduced a major new feature for Facebook Messenger that would greatly increase privacy on the platform: notifications when someone screenshots your disappearing messages in a Secret Conversation protected by end-to-end encryption. On January 27, 2022, Zuckerberg posted, “New update for end-to-end encrypted Messenger chats so you get a notification if …
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Internet Proxies Internet proxies are composed of proxy server which serves as a bridge between you and the internet. It’s an intermediary server that sits between end users and the websites they visit. Depending on your use case, needs, or company policy, proxy servers provide varying levels of functionality, security, and privacy. When you use …
When visiting your website, the user gives Information such as IP address that moved from one server to another before reaching its final destination. Visitors expect your business to keep their personal information safe. Without a secure connection, the information they give you is at risk of falling into the wrong hands, compromising their privacy, which …
A man in the middle (MITM) attack occurs when a perpetrator enters himself into a communication between a user and an application, either to listen in or to mimic one of the parties, making it look as though a regular information exchange is taking place. This form of assault is comparable to the game of …
DOS Attack A DOS attack is a denial of service attack. A computer sends a massive amount of traffic to a victim’s computer and shuts it down.DOS is an online attack that is used to make the website unavailable. It sends a massive amount of traffic to a website’s server that is linked to the …
Microsoft announced today that it is investigating a significant new phishing campaign that employs a “novel technique,” rendering them “traditional phishing remediation playbook” inadequate. The corporation stressed that the campaign was most successful against targets that did not use multifactor authentication (MFA). The new method involves device registration — “joining an attacker-operated device to an …
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Google Authenticator Basically, Google Authenticator offers two-factor authentication which requires users to provide two different forms of identification. When you enable two-factor authentication, users must log in using their credentials as well as a random numeric code generated by the Google Authenticator app, which is available for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry SMS-based two-factor authentication has a …
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