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LinkedIn Phishing Scam: Hackers target users with fake job offers

  • Prashant Tilekar / 5 years
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LinkedIn is a popular social networking platform that is focused on professional networking and the business community. On this platform, users are focused almost entirely on making connections and finding jobs. But things are not always as they seem. Of late, LinkedIn is emerging as one of the most popular social networking sites used by […]

Security resolutions for 2020 to stay safe online!

  • Pavan Thorat / 6 years
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  • 4 min read

As we are about to enter the new year, it’s ritualistic to reflect on our experiences from the passing year and make resolutions for the New Year. Most people make resolutions around good heath, their life goals, etc. Here is a different angle to our routine resolutions’ list – Security Resolutions everyone should make for […]

Beware of the ‘Free Cycle Distribution Yojana’ WhatsApp message. It’s fake!

  • Ganesh Lakariya / 7 years
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As India’s Independence Day (15th of August) approaches, messages about free distribution schemes are doing the rounds on WhatsApp. Just recently, Quick Heal Security Labs detected a widespread circulation of one such message claiming that the Indian government will distribute free cycles to students on Independence Day, under the Free Cycle Distribution Yojana (scheme) Government […]

Imgur security breach: If you use Imgur, then change your password immediately!

  • Sakshat Karkare / 8 years
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  • 2 min read

Popular image-sharing site Imgur has issued a notification through its official blog about a security breach that impacted 1.7 million users. This breach had occurred back in 2014. The company learned about this from security researcher Troy Hunt. What was compromised in the Imgur security breach? Data of 1.7 million Imgur user accounts was compromised in […]

Security Vulnerabilities for Android and iOS Hit An All-time High in 2015

  • Antara Biswas / 10 years
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  • 6 min read

Quick Heal hopes it has been a good year for you. But, has it been a good year for your mobile devices as well? It has been an alarming year for both Android and iOS users. If Android users were vulnerable to Stagefright attacks, iOS users had their own share of vulnerabilities with the Masque […]

Data Privacy Day – Tips to Protect Your Data and Privacy

  • Sakshat Karkare / 11 years
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  • 4 min read

Last year, if our readers can recall, we had an interesting discussion on Data Privacy Day (DPD) and also shared some useful tips on how to keep our data safe. Well, we are here again. To refresh our memory, DPD is observed across the world with a centered approach towards respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and […]

5 Million Gmail Passwords Leaked and Other IT Security News

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 11 years
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This week the world was rocked by the news that close to 5 million Gmail passwords were released in a Russian forum by a hacker. Google claims only a small percentage of these are valid accounts. However, the threat is real and all Google users should change their passwords as soon as possible. Read on […]