data security
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Block JavaScript In Your Browser To Prevent Annoying Email Tracking
JavaScript is one of the key elements most websites and web apps run on, but it’s also one of the most easily exploited. Not only is it used in analytic tools, ads, and browsing trackers, hackers often use JavaScript to deploy malware, it makes you easily trackable in some circumstances, and it can even accidentally…
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How To Protect Your Zoom Account From Recent Data Breaches
There are over 500,000 stolen Zoom logins floating around the dark web. That’s not good, especially since they’re being sold for next to nothing, but it’s a great reminder that you should not be using the same credentials for different services.
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Don’t Click On Links In Public Zoom Chats Right Now
There happens to be a vulnerability in the way Zoom converts URLs into hyperlinks that hackers can use to collect your Windows login credentials and potentially access your desktop remotely. Until Zoom fixes this, resist the urge to click URLs from people you don’t trust—namely all those public Zoom meetings you’ve been attending to stave…
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How To Fix IOS 13’s Location Privacy Bug
Welp, there seems to be another reason to hold off on updating to iOS 13: Users have discovered that the “Location” privacy setting — which requests access to your device’s geographical location data — is being automatically reset from “Never” to “Ask Next Time” in certain apps.