Security

Many websites and apps, especially online shopping platforms, require personal information, including phone numbers. Unfortunately, some platforms share or sell this data to third parties, including telemarketers and fraudsters. As a result, you may start receiving calls from unknown numbers. While an occasional missed call is normal, frequent calls from unknown sources can quickly become…

How does your day start? Let us guess: one of the first things you do is grab your phone and check what’s new on social media. For many of us, it’s almost automatic – a habit we don’t even think about much. Social media has become such a huge part of our daily grind. It’s…

Almost every mobile phone user has faced or at least heard about the phone’s wrong number scams. Americans, for instance, receive more than 3 billion spam calls every month, which continues to increase yearly. Wrong number scam is a new trend and something to be aware of. However, before learning to protect ourselves from them,…

Are you exhausted from getting spam emails? They are irritating and harmful, as many malicious individuals use them to install malware on your device. And these spam emails are everywhere.  Between 2018 and 2024, the number of email users globally increased from 3.8 billion to 4.4 billion, and it is set to grow to 4.89…

OTP – what does it stand for? Is it just another abbreviation scientists use to sound like the big fish in the pond, or is there more to it? In short, OTP is something almost each of us goes through in our daily lives. Yeah, surprised? Well, we’ll add more clarity to what OTP is. …

iPhones are incredibly popular among kids and families in the U.S., with over 60% of the smartphone market using iOS devices as of 2024. This share is growing globally, particularly in regions like Canada (60%), Sweden (56%), Japan (68%), and North Corea (82%). In Europe and Asia, iPhones hold about 30-40% of the mobile market….

We are so used to GPS that we can hardly imagine (or remember, depending on the age) life without it. GPS is used while traveling, choosing an ideal route to get to your destination, checking where your children and relatives are, etc. However, something called GPS spoofing is becoming more and more at the hearing…

It is hard to imagine a mobile phone owner who hasn’t come across any phone scams. Fraudsters have different ways of accessing phone number databases, and there are thousands of different stories and schemes they use to get. Thus, if you are a mobile phone user (which you obviously are if you are here), it…