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Facebook is one of the most sought-after social media platforms out there, which boasts more than a billion active users every month from around the world. Users who have accounts on Facebook can post photos, videos, stories, upload status, and connect with other people from across the globe. With the growing privacy concerns of people today, the  social media  giant is also taking significant measures to cater to their users’ need for better privacy on the platform. Back in 2017, the platform rolled out a feature that allows users to shield their current profile picture, and now last year in 2020, the company launched another feature, Facebook profile lock, which is kind of a successor to the profile guard feature. With the release of this profile lock feature, users can now add an extra security layer to their Facebook profile. A lock icon that shows up on a user’s profile indicates that the person has a locked profile. People who are not added as a friend will not be able t...

  During the last couple of weeks, many people (which includes celebrities) have fallen prey to a scam called “Instagram Copyright Infringement.” The fraudsters have been impersonating Instagram Help Centre officials and getting their hands on personal user information. The most recent celebrity who has fallen prey to this scam and thus lost access to her account is actor Amisha Patel. HOW DOES THIS INSTAGRAM COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT SCAM WORK? Apart from the recent victim Amisha Patel, numerous other celebrities, including Urmila Matondkar and Asha Bhosle, got a message on their Instagram account from a verified profile generally named “Help Center” claiming that he/she is linked to the Instagram Copyright Infringement Center. The message received said that they (posing as Help Center) had received a lot of complaints regarding their (the receiver’s) Instagram account for a long time now, and thus they wanted to inform the user about this issue. The message further read that before ...

The tenth month of the year, October is best known for Halloween, but it is also celebrated as the National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. And surprisingly, there are many similarities between these two! Let’s see how: For starters, they are both scary and frightening. It’s always like there is a new scare on the way. Next, trick-or-treating is a traditional custom where children (and sometimes adults) wearing costumes go knocking on other people’s door asking for ‘trick or treat’ to get candy or at times, people give them money too. However, for the cybercriminals, there’s no treat. It’s all about tricking! Just like in masquerade balls, people go to the parties all dressed up in costumes and wearing masks; the digital world is the same. The only difference is that except you, all the hackers are behind the mask, staying anonymous. These were just a few instances. We can go on stating them, but it won’t end. The bottom line is Halloween and cybersecurity are quite alike. And as Hallow...

One fine day you sit back to relax and login to your favorite social media account and see a series of posts that you never posted and messages that were definitely not sent by you. Or maybe you wake up to an email that your XYZ account’s password has been changed without you even knowing about it. The first thing that pops up in your mind is that your account has been hacked. The next thing you know is you are panicking, not knowing what to do now! This is something that needs to be addressed timely considering the social media trespasses that have been taking place increasingly at an alarming rate. According to recent reports, around 25% of social media users admitted that their accounts were hacked at least once, and approx 15% claimed it was hacked more than once. So, the real question here is that what should you do if you find yourself stuck in a social media crisis like this? Well, your first step and the most critical one should be to reset your password straight away and infor...

On hearing the term “social media threats,” most of the people can only think as far as to fake accounts, trolls, fake followers that are bought online, or maybe the fake news and accusations that go viral in seconds across social media platforms. However, in this process, what is most often forgotten is social media security. People fail to realize how it can be used to cause damage to a company and its customers through online threats like fake business accounts, brand impersonation, phishing attacks and scams, ID theft scams, and so on. This leads us to another fact that most of these threats are run through social media platforms only. The most significant vulnerability of an organization is the human factor. Contrarily, there are human activities online that are disguised as regular social media activities. Now, this is precisely where usually a top-level of social engineering is in action as cybercriminals execute all kinds of online scams, frauds, thefts, and schemes with the ai...

Did you send en email by mistake? Do you want to recall an email sent from Gmail? Well, the good news is that you can easily do it. Follow the steps mentioned below and unsend Gmail messages. Steps to Recall an Email in Gmail on Desktop •    Go to the “Gmail” on the computer. Click on the site link  http://www.gmail.com  in the default browsing application. You will get the inbox page of your Gmail account on the screen in case you are already signed in. In case you are not signed in into Gmail account, then type the email ID and password. •    In case you are using the updated Gmail version, then you have to enable the “Undo Send” option by going through the steps mentioned below: Tap on the “Settings” option located in the pull-down list. Go through the “Enable Undo Send” checkbox located in the “General” option. Choose the time of recalling a message in Gmail which you are already sent by going to the “Send cancellation period” pu...

It becomes tough to remember different passwords for separate accounts. But at the same time, using the same password in all your separate accounts is not safe. Safety is taken for granted when one password is used in all your accounts. It is so because if by chance the hacker gets to know the password of your one account, then they can automatically get access to the rest of your accounts. Thankfully, there is a solution to such problems. Best ways to set your passwords Set random passwords You should always try to set random passwords in all your accounts. This will provide safety to each of your accounts indirectly. As different random passwords will be complicated for the hacker to trap. It is worth noting that with random passwords the strong passwords also plays a significant role. And this should be made in such a way that it becomes easy to remember. For instance, you can make a list as follows- Mail accounts credentials Social networking sites credentials Bank...