US consumers have lost over $4 Billion just in 1 year as a result of online fraud

The number of online scams has been increased a lot especially during the pandemic situation as a result of an increase in online activities, for instance, people started working online and many people now prefer shopping online. A recent report shows that cybercriminals have scammed a record...

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Report Reveals that Your Age Can Determine How Likely You Are to Get Targeted by Cybercriminals

Though the advancement in technology has helped the world in so many aspects one things that is a draw back for sure in this is the increasing amount of cybercrimes. While, crimes were limited to house robberies and thefts in the olden days, the immense advancement and use in the online community...

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These Are the Most In-demand Cybersecurity Careers You Should Go For in the Next 5 Years

Getting a career in information technology (IT) sector is generally something that can ensure that you would always have some kind of gainful employment that you can end up relying on, and the good news here is that you can always figure out which field would be the best for you to enter based on...

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WhatsApp is Working on a New Business Directory Feature

WhatsApp’s parent company Facebook has been working really hard to ensure that businesses can find new customers on its various platforms, and a new feature that WhatsApp is working on will look to do just that. This new feature will be called the WhatsApp Business Directory, and in many ways it...

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New report highlights list of top 10 apps in terms of downloads and sales generated by them

As analysis by AppAnnie shows, TikTok turned out to be the most installed app of 2021. During the month of April, May, and June, TikTok was downloaded in insane number. Whereas, YouTube stands on top in terms of sales generated by it. Which indicates that TikTok being the most downloaded app, was...

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LinkedIn claims the alleged information of its users posted online is the result of data scrapping that is very difficult to control due to its sophistication, however, it is not a breach

There were many accusations on LinkedIn about the data hack of its users. During the first quarter of 2021, that personal scrapped information of approximately 500 million users of LinkedIn has been leaked online on many hacking forums. Two months ago the platform was alleged again that the...

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Here’s How YouTube is Fighting Against Comment Spam

Any platform that has active comment sections and other forum based mechanisms that people can use to talk to one another will inevitably end up suffering from spam in some way, shape or form. YouTube is no exception to this, and in many ways YouTube is the kind of platform where spam ends up...

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