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TIP: Click This Security Button Now If You Are A User of Google Chrome
Hi Guys, Google Chrome is an excellent internet browser in that it has a great ecosystem of extensions that you can use. It is also quite secure (as long as you keep out updated and as long as you are careful about what you click on etc.), but did you know that you...
ALERT: Update Android Now – February Update Fixes Five Critical Flaws
Hi Guys, Google’s February security update fixes five critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. I strongly recommend that you update now your device now. On most phones you can install your Google updates by doing this: Open your device’s SettingsNear the bottom,...
ALERT: 1,906,808 User Accounts Breached at Online Photo Editing Application
Hi Guys I hope you are well. Pixlr - 1,906,808 Breached Accounts In October 2020, the online photo editing application Pixlr suffered a data breach exposing 1.9 million subscribers. Impacted data included names, email addresses, social media profiles, the country...
TIP: Is Your Home Appliance Spying On You?
Hi Guys, Researchers have demonstrated how popular robotic household cleaners can be remotely hacked to turn them into microphones. Yes, that is right, your vacuum cleaner could be spying on you! The researchers, including Nirupam Roy from the University of Maryland...
ALERT: 2,811,929 User Accounts Breached at Online Store Bonobos
Hi Guys I hope you are well. Bonobos - 2,811,929 Breached Accounts In August 2020, the clothing store Bonobos suffered a data breach that exposed almost 70GB of data containing 2.8 million unique email addresses. The breach also exposed names, physical and IP...
ALERT: Spotify Wins Patent To Snoop on Users Voice to Gauge Their Emotional State
Hi Guys, I wanted to let you know that music streaming service Spotify has won a patent that will enable it to listen to its users speech and background noise in order to choose songs that best suit their emotional state. This technology once deployed will allow...
TIP: 4 Steps To Delete Everything Google Knows About you.
Hi Guys, Do you ever find it strange how Google seems to know precisely what your searching for, or ads turn up for precisely what you need? This is due to the data that you share. Here is how they collect this data and what you can do to protect your privacy. What's...
ALERT: Dating App Breach – 2.3 Million People Affected
Hi Guys, Details of more the 2.2 million users of dating site MeetMindful have been dumped online for free in the latest in a series of data breaches. The stolen data includes the following: Real nameEmail addressesAddress informationBody detailsDating...
ALERT: Update iOS Urgently
Hello, Apple have just released an emergency update to iOS after an anonymous researcher identified bugs in the software’s kernel and WebKit browser engine. Please take a couple of minutes and make sure you are running the latest version. Thanks and have a great day....
INFO: Facebook Gives FBI Private Messages Of Users Discussing Capitol Hill Riot
Hi Guys, I just read a Forbes article written by Thomas Brewster entitled 'Facebook Gives FBI Private Messages Of Users Discussing Capitol Hill Riot' and I wanted to share it with you. You can read the article by clicking here -...