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Human rights organizations have begun raising concerns following the discovery of plans for a version of Instagram aimed at children under 13. The child-oriented platform would be a way for Facebook to provide social media services to children currently too young to sign up. The proposal is raising concerns with…
Paying for a VPN with Bitcoin can increase your privacy by providing anonymity at the time of purchase. If you want to pay with cryptocurrency, you will require a Bitcoin VPN that accepts crypto payments (either directly or through an intermediary). In this guide, we look at the best VPNs…
Passport? Check. Mobile phone? Check. Plane tickets? Check. Before you head out to catch your flight, hop on a train, or load up the car, you’ll probably take a moment to make sure you’ve got everything you need for the journey ahead. And whether you’re going solo or in a…
Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) have carved out a huge piece of the gaming empire in recent years – and they’re good, too (we’ve come a long way from Adventure Quest Worlds… though I did play the hell out of that as a kid!). It’s not unusual to see MMOs…
Android and iOS smartphones are taking over the world, but so have cybercriminals. If you value mobile security, you’ll probably want to compare Android vs iOS. Here’s how they measure up across a range of different features: App marketplace security Winner: iPhone Apple closely inspects every app on its app store,…
Your security is important, and your Nord Account security doubly so. With easy access to all of your Nord products, an intruder could wreak havoc with your subscriptions and settings. Fear not — you can now set up multi-factor authentication for your Nord Account to keep yourself safe. What is multi-factor…
Annoying ads are nothing new, but in the digital age they’re getting harder and harder to avoid. Thanks to the rise of adware, adverts can now infiltrate your phone and follow you wherever you go. So what is adware? And how can you remove adware from your iPhone and Android devices?…
Imagine scrolling through your Facebook when you see a weird ad. It’s for something you know you’ve never been interested in. You shrug it off as poor ad targeting until you start seeing it again and again. Then it clicks — hey, isn’t this something your friend mentioned recently when talking…
It’s open season for hackers; four critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Microsoft Exchange Server system. This story began in January 2021, and it’s still unravelling. The exploits sparked a global onslaught of major cyberattacks affecting at least 30,000 businesses and institutions in the US alone. While patches for the…
If you regularly need to back up large files to the internet, it is essential that you pick a cloud backup provider that gives you either unlimited or easily scalable storage space. Not all backup providers allow you to upload large file sizes, which means that you must take care…