Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Showing posts with label think. Show all posts
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Why you should think twice before putting your mobile phone number on Facebook
Why you should think twice before putting your mobile phone number on Facebook
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Friday, March 3, 2017
What to do if you think your details have been stolen
What to do if you think your details have been stolen
Redesign 4 December: It has quite recently become visible that Wetherspoons - the bar chain - was hacked back in June 2015. Its client database was gotten to and the points of interest of more than 650,000 clients may have been stolen. It incorporates names and email addresses. Just 100 clients had card points of interest stolen, and it was just the last four digits of the long number. No passwords were contained in the database, however you ought to watch out for phishing messages and different tricks. See beneath for potential tricks to watch out for.
Theres little you can do to keep your record being hacked, obviously. You need to depend on the security put set up by the organizations and administrations of which youre a client. Nonetheless, if an administration offers two-component validation you ought to empower it. Two layers of security are basic with online financial balances, however different administrations offer it too, including Google. Such confirmation can be a bother, however its justified, despite all the trouble to keep your record more secure.
Change your secret word
The principal strategy on the off chance that you get wind of an organizations site being assaulted is to sign into your record - on the off chance that you can - and change your secret key. This will stop any individual who has your login subtle elements from keeping on getting to it.
Heres some counsel on the most proficient method to pick a solid watchword. You can likewise utilize a watchword chief which will produce a solid secret key and enter it every time you visit that site. A decent secret word director will take a shot at all your gadgets, from PC to telephone to tablet.
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Its pivotal to utilize diverse passwords for all your online records on the grounds that if programmers get hold of your email location and watchword, they can take a stab at utilizing those accreditations to get to Gmail, Facebook, in addition to different banks and administrations.
Screen your financial balances
Taking after a hack where you think your money related points of interest have been traded off (an uncommon event, however it can happen) watch out for little exchanges you cant clarify. Crooks can regularly attempt to exchange a couple pounds to check whether its conceivable, furthermore on the grounds that they can go unnoticed.
In the event that you do see any unordinary action, contact your bank furthermore Action Fraud UK (0300 123 2040).
Watch out for tricks
When a hack is open learning, others crooks will hope to profit by it by utilizing tricks and phishing assaults to attempt and concentrate individual data from the organizations clients.
Theyll do this by messaging or calling and professing to be from the organization that was hacked. They may request your bank points of interest, login subtle elements or some other individual data. Few organizations nowadays will request bank points of interest via telephone, so be exceptionally suspicious in the event that they do as such.
In the event that anybody calls and requests data, its best to get back to them from an alternate telephone (a cellular telephone on the off chance that they approach a landline, say) and utilize a number you know is veritable. Dont just call the number they give you via telephone.
In messages, be careful about tapping on connections as they can take you to fake sites which look authentic however are only an approach to tempt you to sort in your login subtle elements which are sent straight to the programmers. Such messages are starting to get exceptionally persuading, with a lot of Just Eat clients falling for a honest to goodness looking overview email which guaranteed to enter members into an opposition to win free record credit.
Rather than clicking suspicious connections, sort in the location of the fundamental site in your program. Any page which requests touchy data ought to begin with https:// - on the off chance that it doesnt dont enter your points of interest. Furthermore, on the off chance that you cant discover points of interest of the opposition or mind boggling offer, its presumably on the grounds that it doesnt exist.
Get protected
Uncommon protection strategies are starting to be offered which shield you against misfortune from online exchanges. One is Phishield, which offers approaches from £24.99 and spreads card misrepresentation, internet shopping, phishing tricks and thats only the tip of the iceberg.
TalkTalk hack: the subtle elements
The individual subtle elements of 156,959 clients were gotten to in the hack. Everything except 303 of those had ledger numbers and sort codes stolen. 28,000 credit and charge card numbers were "clouded" and "stranded" so were the full numbers not open, as well as the subtle elements couldnt be matched up with clients.
The examination has demonstrated that the size of the assault was significantly more constrained than beforehand suspected, with just 4 percent of clients at danger of delicate individual information being gotten to.
TalkTalk has said that the money related data stolen cant all alone prompt monetary misfortune - its the same data youd find on a check - and that every single influenced client have been reached. It has additionally focused on that it wont call any clients (or generally reach them) about the hack, nor request bank points of interest or whatever other individual or money related data. On the off chance that anybody calls you requesting this, accept it is a trick and hang up. See beneath for more counsel on the most proficient method to stay safe.
As of now, no clients can deal with their records online by means of My Account on account of the hack. You can figure out different approaches to do this furthermore the most recent data about the examination on TalkTalks site
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
What Does The Refresh Option In Windows Actually Do It’s Not What You Think
What Does The Refresh Option In Windows Actually Do It’s Not What You Think
Most of us have the habit of constantly refreshing our Windows machines. Many times, we just do it because we have to. But, we haven’t thought of the actual thing the Refresh option does to our machine. Read further to know, what the Refresh option in Windows actually does.I can’t even remember since when I am using the Refresh option present in the context menu in Microsoft Windows operating system. In fact, most of us refresh our Windows desktop for uncountable times in a day. But, very few of us know what the Refresh option actually does to our operating system.Until a few days ago, I, being a loyal Windows user from the time when I got hands on my first desktop machine, believed that the Refresh option in Windows clears the system memory, making it clutter free. But, all my beliefs turned out to be false when I finally I dug through the internet for the actual task performed by the Refresh option in Windows.
What actually happens is that Windows has an auto-refresh feature inbuilt by Microsoft which enables the screen to display the changes made to a folder–even desktop is just a folder for your operating system–either by you or a third-party application or if you want to re-align the folders on your desktop.
Sometimes, the auto-refresh option fails to display the change on your screen. So, you have to manually do it yourself by clicking the Refresh button in the context menu. I would like to tell you that no miracle happens when you click the refresh button. It won’t make any changes in the performance. Your Windows machine won’t transform into a supercomputer.
Most people, including me, have developed a habit of constantly refreshing Windows for no reason. I have shifted to Ubuntu recently and I find myself searching for the Refresh option in the context menu, but it is nowhere to be seen because Linux-based operating systems don’t have it.
It seems like a daily ritual for most of us, our hands involuntarily keep pressing the F5. And some of us even overcome our laziness and refresh windows using a mouse which is a tiresome job, though. So, try to get rid of this bad habit.
Talking technical, all the stuff you see on your desktop is a static frame. Let’s take an example of a movie — In earlier times we went to cinema theatres which used camera reels to project the movie on a white screen. Each reel had many images arranged in an order and they were projected on the screen at a specific rate i.e. 24 images/frames per second. You might’ve heard about the term FPS (frames per second), it’s the same thing. Human eye can’t distinguish if the FPS is 24 or above.
In current times, the same process is followed but the photos are now saved in a digitally compressed file which is given an extension like MP4 or MKV. It makes the video portable and we can open it on our computer.
So, consider a frame generated by your OS as an image. Frames are displayed on your screen one after the other giving you a feel that everything is continuous. Each frame comprises of different UI (User Interface) components like background, icons and their names. When each frame is constructed, all the components are placed on it, like first the background, then the icons and their names. The taskbar acts as a layer which is placed on the top of the background.
Now, if each component would have to be placed in every succeeding frame, then it would be a tiresome job for the hardware. So, to reduce the burden on the hardware, an optimisation technique has been deduced in which only the components which are needed to be changed are marked as dirty and then recreated in the next frame. This reduces the load on the CPU.
The refresh option marks all the components of the screen as dirty, so, the whole screen is recreated in the next frame and displayed on your monitor. That’s the prime job of the Refresh option in Windows.
So, feel free to press the F5 button the next time. But, do decide whether you need it or not. Anyways, it’s your machine and the Refresh option is free–press it as many times you want.
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