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Sunday, 6 November 2016
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Five must have tools to protect your Facebook,Twitter,Instagram,LinkedIn Accounts


You should have these five tools to protect your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media accounts

Social media has taken the world by storm through dozens of websites, mobile apps, and other forms of technologies improving the way people communicate with each other. There are social media sites that have millions of members allowing them to share photos, videos, text messages, and more on a regular basis. In fact, social media now accounts for almost 80 percent of the time we spend online. We are all members of Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus or other social media accounts and these accounts are often prone to hacking.
One of the main reasons for hacking of your social media accounts is loss of password. Hackers gain access to your password by social engineering, brute force or dictionary attack method. These risks stretch from innocent fun to serious reputational damage, financial troubles and even legal persecution in the event that a hacked account is used for committing a crime.
Therefore protecting your social media accounts is very important and here are the five software tools can provide you with some degree of social media protection:
The most common mistake one can make is to have a simple and obvious password or use one single password for all accounts – from Internet banking to an email account. Just the other day we had reported that “123456,” “password,” “12345,” “12345678” and “qwerty” are the most used passwords and most easily hackable ones.
LastPass is a freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in the cloud. The service is able to save existing passwords as well as generate new ones. It provides two-factor authentication, and the only password a user has to remember and never lose is a master password for the LastPass itself. Your password should ideally be 16 digits and contain at least one number, one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter and one special symbol. The strength of a password can be measured by the Password Meter. Experts recommend changing the master password once every 10 weeks.

LogDog

LogDog is a free product designed to track any suspicious activity related to social media accounts. The system continuously scans various indicators of unauthorized access. When an attack is detected, LogDog sends intrusion alerts and lets users take back control over their accounts. Currently, it’s only available for Android devices. Also, some social networks like Facebook allow you to receive an alert when anyone logs into the account from a new device or browser. This feature must be switched on.

HTTPS Everywhere

If devices used for social media access are shared with others or frequently taken to public places, it is better to protect them with an extra security layer by encrypting the traffic from a browser to a social network. HTTPS Everywhere is a free browser extension that switches websites from HTTP (unsecured) to HTTPS (secured).
Another freemium tool, Digi.me is designed to store social media data in case all information is lost as a result of hacking. It allows you to back up and view content from up to four of your social media accounts.
These are the five top tools to protect your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts from getting hacked. You can either use one of them or all to get that bit of added protection.

Wednesday, 3 August 2016
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How to Find Your Lost or Stolen Laptop?



Electronic devices, especially laptops, have become an essential part of our lives rather than a luxury product, that they were considered in the past. Only a mere thought of losing your precious device will give you goose bumps, but what if it really vanishes from your vicinity – thanks to the guy who has the courage to do that magical act.

Jokes apart, in this article we have added some ways that can be used to find your stolen laptop in case of any theft.

Trace your Laptop’s IP address:

The magician who vanished your precious laptop might have the courage to peek into your business. There are great chances, that the person who took your laptop may check your mail account or other services. These services do provide tracking feature that can help you, trace the location and IP address of your device. You can get the device location of your stolen laptop if you use these services:

Gmail:

Just open your Gmail account and move to the bottom of the page. Here you will find “Last Account Activity” written in the bottom left corner of the page. Click “Details” link right below it. A new window will open containing a list of all the recent Gmail sessions of your account, providing IP address and location of the sessions. You can click “Sign Out Of All Other Web Sessions” to protect your Gmail account from further trespassing.

Facebook:

The social networking giant has also provided a feature to track your account activity.
Open “Settings” in your Facebook account and then click “Security” option. You’ll find an option called “Where You’re Logged In”, just click that, and you’ll be presented with details of your Facebook sessions. To know the IP address of any session, just hover on the location name, and it will display the IP address of that session. You can click “End Activity” to log out that particular session or you can click “End All Activity” to log out of all your active Facebook session on any other device.

Dropbox:

Dropbox also provides a session tracking feature. Just sign-in to you Dropbox account and click your name, a drop down menu will appear. Then click on “Settings” option. Click on Security tab, here you’ll find the list of all your active and past sessions. Just hover on the “i” right next to the country name to know the approximate location and similarly, click the “i” next to time (under Most Recent Activity) to know the IP address and time of the session.
Just note down the IP address and location from any of the above sources and contact the police for further assistance.

Prevention is better than cure:

It would be wise enough to be well prepared for such mishaps well in advance. Prey Inc. has come up with an efficient tool that can help you track your device very easily in case of any theft or lost. Though this platform is available for various operating systems like Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux, but we have tested Prey only for the Widows OS.

Here are the steps you need to follow in order to setup Prey:

1) Go to https://preyproject.com
 
2) Click Sign-in and setup your Prey account.

3) After that, Sign-in to your Prey account and look for a green plus button right next to Your Devices.

4) Choose your preferred operating system and Prey will start downloading the appropriate application to your device.

 
5) Install the application by clicking the usual next, next, next. It’ll take few minutes to install.

6) At the end of installation, keep the Set-up Prey check box ticked and click Finish.

7) A new window will open. Click Existing User option, as you have already created your Prey account.

8) Enter your login credentials and click Connect, a popup will appear, ”Sweet! Your Computer is now protected by Prey. Try it out or protect an additional device, please visit preyproject.com”.

9) Click OK and you’re done.

10) You can track your device online by simply logging into your Prey account in any web browser.

11)If you lose your device, just log-in to your account and click your lost device in Your Devices section. Then click Set Device To Missing.

12) A box will appear, set the Report Frequency as per your convenience. Click Advanced Options to find more options. Here you can select, if you want to take snapshots of the person using the device via webcam. Using the snapshot feature may alert the person using the laptop as the webcam LED will blink after regular intervals, creating a suspicious environment for that person.

 

13) Click Yes, my device is missing. In the next box, you can set whether the device is LOST or STOLEN. You can also share the lost information with Prey Inc. in the next option.

 

14) Whenever you need to know the current status of your device just click the Maps and Action option in the device section.

15) When you find your device, just Set Device To Recovered and prey will stop the live tracking of your device.

Prey allows you to lock the device remotely, play alarm, send message in case any humble person may return your laptop, if you have forgotten it somewhere. The only disadvantage of this service is that your laptop must be connected to the internet, and for that, “May the Force be with You”. You can add up to three devices in the free option. To add more devices, you’ll have to purchase their plans.
In case of any theft, it is highly recommended to change your passwords for all the online services that you use to protect your valuable data and privacy.
Keeping your laptop safe is a must in this technology driven world. You can protect your laptop by using these simple methods and it will save your valuable memories that you have collected all over your life. Apart from using these methods, you should always set a password to all of your devices, this will protect your data in case of any theft or if you might forget it somewhere.






Wednesday, 16 March 2016
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How to Capture Someone’s Picture Who Tries To Unlock Your Phone


Step 1. First of all, you need to download and install the app Hidden Eye.

Step 2. Now open the app in your android and you will see the three checkboxes.

Step 3. Now tick on the Third option there which says “Show Intruders On Unlock” and then click on ok button.

 Step 4. You can also check other option too according to your wish. Make sure that the app gets activated after selecting all the options.

Step 5. Now this app will work for you and when your friends try to unlock your android then this app will capture its pictures on  your record. In your free time, you can check your records and can check that who tries to unlock your android in your absence.

That’s it! you are done, now your android will catch your friends in your absence.