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Latest Posts

How Secure is Your Copied Text (Clipboard)?

/ data privacy, security exploits

CTRL C and then CTRL V.

(For the Mac users: COMMAND+C and then COMMAND+V.)

Familiar? That's how you copy and paste on a keyboard.

For your touchscreen device it's as simple as highlighting the text with your finger and tapping "Copy."

The copy and paste function across desktops and ot...

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Safety Guide: Helpful Security Tips for Working Remotely

/ data privacy, safety guide

Even before the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a lot of people worked from home at least some of the time.

One study conducted by the International Workplace Group (IWG) found that approximately 70% of the global workforce worked from home at least once a week.

The IWG also f...

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The Account Passwords You Should Always Remember (and Why)

/ data privacy, passwords

Memory capacity for everyone is limited. Remembering stuff seems to get harder and harder every day, doesn't it?

But you commit some things to memory right?

I recommend committing a couple passwords to memory too. Not many, really. Only a coupl...

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