Cybersecurity

In a digital age marked by globalization, we live a significant part of our lives online and reveal information about ourselves at a scale never seen before. Your favorite websites and social media networks are all filled with personal information, photos, and geotags telling the world who and where you are. Your footprints are all over the internet. If someone doesn’t like you and is eager to collect the breadcrumbs, you may become a victim of doxxing. Doxxing: What is it? Searching for, collecting, and publicly sharing any personally identifiable information against a person's consent is termed as doxxing. Its commonly

Believe it or not, you accumulate a ton of data in the form of documents, chats, emails, videos, pictures, and recordings. You can prevent your data from falling in the wrong hands, but it takes initiative and consistency to ensure your data remains secure. To prevent data loss, you will need to back up all your important files, preferably making multiple copies in different locations that you have complete control of. However, if you are not sure how to go about making backups and secure your files, then you are in the right place. Here, you will learn everything you

Deactivating or deleting Facebook messenger can prove to be quite tricky, since deactivating the Facebook account doesn’t deactivate or delete the Facebook messenger by default. However, considering the massive Facebook data breaches – Cambridge Analytica and other privacy scandals, it makes sense that a huge number of netizens concerned for their privacy, deem it necessary to delete Facebook messenger and their account along with the messenger. The constant mishandling of user data by Facebook has left many fearing for their privacy. Deactivating a Facebook account isn’t even enough because Facebook messenger holds the same amount of personal data that can

Our phones are like a part of our body that does more than just one thing daily. From sending personal messages, using banking apps, keeping work credentials, to having health data, everything our phone keeps. But what if someone gains unauthorized access to your phone or your phone gets hacked? This will not only disrupt your privacy but also lead to financial or identity theft while draining your resources. Millions of users are getting concerned about their mobile security and the growing problem of phone hacking. In an analytical report by Certo Software in 2024, it was estimated that around

Hackers end up leaving trails of what they have done behind, enabling us to tell if an attack has occurred. These trails are referred to as Indicators of Compromise. Here, we discuss what these indicators are and how to spot them. Indicators of Compromise: What Are They? Unlike other kinds of theft, cyber attacks can be hard to detect, and most enterprises don’t know that an attack occurred until it's too late; leaving them open to damage that could have been avoided in the first place. If you aren’t aware that a hacker has gained access to your database, there