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Viral Facebook copyright message is nothing but a scam

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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If you recently came across a viral Facebook privacy notice that mentioned copyrights of your content, photos and videos, you should be forewarned that this notice is yet another Facebook scam. Facebook recently updated their privacy guidelines and also allowed users to comment on these changes for the first time. Unfortunately, this has led to […]

5 things you should never reveal on social networks

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Many people fail to notice how their online lives endanger their day to day lives. An overload of information shared online, especially over social networks, is perhaps the biggest risk. Constant access to our devices and phones also allows us to share information at a level never seen before. But on the other hand, this […]

Have you used these easy and effective Quick Heal Parental Control tools?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Parents of school going kids have several questions when it comes to cyber security. Some of these issues involve the freedom and time that should be given to kids when they access the Internet. Other questions revolve around the mode of access in the first place. Today it is very common to see pre-teens with […]

5 effortless steps to block Facebook spam from reaching your news feed

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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We recently posted an article about Facebook ‘Like’ scams and the truth behind them. This post talked about how some parties created fake pages to invoke sympathy and got hundreds of thousands of likes and comments as a result. This in turn enhanced the Edge Rank of a page and spread as spam to even […]

How do Facebook ‘Like’ scams reach thousands of users?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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If you look, you will find countless Facebook pages that have hundreds of thousands of likes and comments. But are these real? Some of the posts invite people to write a comment to see what happens. But predictably, nothing happens and this is all part of a large-scale Facebook scam. These ‘stories’ then appear on […]

Latest news updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Facebook offers new privacy setting indicators for new users In a move that suggests Facebook has begun to marginally accept that it is responsible for user privacy, the social network has revised the manner in which it informs new users about privacy settings. This includes little indicators like ‘light bulbs’ that highlight default privacy settings […]

Latest security updates from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Government plans for 5 lakh cyber warriors for e-defense Having recognized the need for defense against extensive cyber attacks, the Indian Government has started an initiative to train 5 lakh ‘cyber warriors’ over the next 5 years. The training will include a centralized institute and access to extensive resources to achieve the same. Flaw in […]

How to get your kids interested in cyber security?

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Getting less tech-savvy family members, especially teenagers and younger children, interested in computer security is a thankless task. It is necessary to teach them the implications of security breaches along with the importance of preventive measures. Children and young adults are more vulnerable to security risks like viruses, phishing websites and other worms. Moreover, they […]

Round-up of the security news updates

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Website collects addresses of users who tweet the word ‘home’ This interesting website scans user tweets for the word ‘home’. If the person who tweeted the word has location tracking switched on, the website uses the location data and saves it as the address of that user. This information is then published on the website […]

Latest security news from the last week

  • Adithya Omanakuttan / 13 years
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Tech journalist blames Amazon and Apple for hack Mat Honan, formerly of Gizmodo, saw all his accounts hacked and devices wiped clean this week thanks to some elementary flaws in Amazon’s and Apple’s support systems. Anyone interested in security should read details about this ‘epic hacking‘. Apparently, all the hacker wanted was Honan’s Twitter handle. […]