Category: digital security
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6 secure browsing practices to adopt in 2025 for safer online experiences
Secure browsing practices are key to ensuring that internet users do not fall prey of cyber threats that will cause financial, integrity losses as well as a huge loss of information. The internet is relevant in ensuring that all online users get the information they desire to know but unfortunately the process of acquiring the…
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10 ways to know it is Vishing; a famous phishing scam nowadays
Vishing is the act of scammers using malicious calls to gather information or money from their victims. It is one of the most common types of phishing today. Scammers pretend to be calling from reputable companies like MTN, AIRTEL, and Google. Before vishing occurs, the scammers gather as much information as possible so the victim…
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6 signs of a Facebook hacked account
Most victims of hacking get to realize that their Facebook account was compromised after over a month. During this period, the hacker gains serious control on the Facebook hacked account. At this point, he can make as many changes as possible to personalize the account and make it comfortable enough for him to use it…
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Prevent adware attacks with these 5 useful tips
Adware has a high potential of harming your computer as well as destroying every information you have stored in it. Every computer user must take precautions while visiting sites with adverts, downloading apps from both known and unknown sources as well as using email clients who allow third-party services to use their spaces. To prevent…
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How to safely open a suspicious link
Suspicious links could lead to the theft of information or even cause severe damage to your device. Imagine you have got a new email and everything is just not adding up. The domain of the email looks suspicious and even the language its self looks suspicious. How do you open such a link to make…
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16 effective ways of fighting phishing
Phishing has become a famously practiced evil in the current day internet. Today I just want to give you and me tips for fighting phishing. Let me begin by defining phishing. Phishing is the practice of sending messages to people while pretending to be from a reputable organization, to obtain personal information for misuse What…
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7 great tips for WordPress backend protection
When it comes to how to wordpress backend protection, every developer has their method. The success of the method depends on the problem the developer wants to avoid. It is crucial to keep our sites safe and the focus should not just be on the hosting panel but also the dashboard and the file system…
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5 severe horrible dangers of location sharing in Africa
It is a common trend for us to get so excited about places, events, clothes, and everything. With the rise of social media features, there is freedom that we get from owning an account; we get the chance to post photos, update the world about the most important events, and even share our location as…
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3 crazy secrets about Google Photos and hacking
Today we will be placing a focus on Google Photos and hacking. Did you know that if a hacker manages to access your Google account, they will be able to see your Google photos too and if they happen to be sensitive, then they will be able to misuse the information? If a Google account…
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FINGERPRINTS; SECURITY FEATURES
Fingerprint identification is the method of identifying people with patterns on their fingertips. Fingertips have been used for a very long time, since the world’s beginning. You understand that in the early days, fingerprints were used instead of signatures because most people didn’t know how to write. If there was a land agreement to be…
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3 common types of backups
What is a backup? When talking about types of backups, we must not forget to define what backup is. Backup is the copying of physical or virtual files of a database to a secondary location so that in case of any unfortunate situation, there is already a copy available. Backing up is necessary when dealing…
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How to create an SSL certificate: 7 key great steps
To guarantee users that their information is safe, you have to create an SSL certificate for your website. What is an SSL Certificate? Fortnet defines an SSL certificate as a file hosted within the web page’s origin server that holds the data browsers use when viewing and interacting with the page. https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/ssl-certificate Whenever a user…
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Anonymity tools for people at risk
Everybody can be at risk despite the level of risk. Thanks to technology anonymity tools have been developed to render protection by hiding IP addresses, not storing search histories Lawyers, journalists, media workers, and other human rights defenders, including persons at risk like asylum seekers, refugees, victims of human trafficking, and everybody else should learn…
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6 useful steps for installing The Tor browser on your computer
Tor browser is one of the most famous anonymity tools used by at-risk groups of people. Anonymity is key for people who may be at risk of being put under surveillance, facing hacking, and a possibility of what they search putting them into trouble. In this article, I will be taking you through the steps…
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4 crazy reasons for viewing search history
When it comes to google accounts being safe, we shouldn’t limit the level of precaution we must take because there’s a possibility of someone viewing your search history on google. There are many reasons people give for viewing search history A google account is often the center of attraction for most hackers because the moment…
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6 great sure don’ts of password management
Password mismanagement has often led to loss of vital information; at risk populations have faced surveillance due to password mismanagement, information has got leaked and fallen to wrong hands, thus many people endanger their online life to the point of putting their physical life in danger as well. Not only has password mismanagement led to…
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7 effective steps for creating public and private keys for encrypting and decrypting email messages; end to end encryption
In the previous week, I made a video that takes you through the steps of encrypting and decrypting email and now i just want to note down the steps right here. You should be able to watch the video through the link below Asymmetric encryption, also called public key cryptography, uses public key private key…
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Symmetric vs Asymmetric encryption: 2 Definitions
Symmetric vs asymmetric encryption plays a great role in choosing the best type of encryption for data types. Every organization has one way of encrypting and decrypting data, and the choice sometimes depends on the flexibility of the encryption method. A bank may choose both asymmetric and symmetric encryption depending on the convenience of the…
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Let’s unpack encryption
Encryption has existed since 1900 BC, histories say that a normal man in Egypt used a simple code of hieroglyphic substitution in the tomb of Khnumhotep. So how did the man do this? By simply altering code and that’s where I am coming to. What is encryption? It is simply the process of disguising/ converting…
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Signs that your phone has been hacked
Do you know that sometimes we end up using devices that have been hacked without knowing. This places us at risk and the information that we have; sometimes it could be financial information like emails containing our financial card details, identity information. Here are the signs to look out for if you think you have…
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7 horrible forms of cyber harassment
Cyber harassment is one most common types of harassment in the present day. It is hard to know whether we are facing or we are being the implementors of cyberharassment when we don’t even know the types. Back in the day, I didn’t know that I was harassing someone when I threw a comment on…
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5 easy Steps for getting backup codes for your google account
Backup codes come in handy in a situation where you can not access your phone or are on a flight but need to access the internet. They are safe to the point that once used, a code can not be reused again. However, caution needs to be taken while storing these codes. If you are…
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How to set up two factor authentication on your email using desktop
Hello to every reader reading this, in the past week, I have been uploading videos on tiktok and You-Tube about setting up two factor authentications in our gmail accounts using smart phones. I will summarise that right below this text so you can watch the video of what I was saying before we dive into…
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How to use kaspersky antivirus for free; 5 steps
I have got you covered today and isn’t it great that we are at the second phase of using Kaspersky anti-virus on our phones? Hello, today am going to give you the steps for using Kaspersky anti-virus on our phones for ultimate protection. The anti-virus has often been reliable in detecting malware for a long…
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How to install antivirus in mobile phone
This is quite an interesting topic. Hi, how are you, I am writing this blog post at night here in Africa and I can’t wait to grant you the anti-virus answer you have been searching for . Without an anti-virus on your phone, you become a victim of malware and when you are a victim,…