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Why did apple remove touch id from IPhone 11?

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  We all know that apple is the one of the prominent companies that manufactures highly secured smart phones in the planet. Apple devices are built with an high quality material and it as a good software optimization. People tend to buy an iPhone because of its security and unique design. Everytime apple launches a new product they implement a new technology into their device and they are mimiced by other smartphone manufacturers. But recently when apple launced iphone 11 they had removed touch id on their devices is it an upgrade or a downgrade.      Our smartphone may have several type of security features like pattern, passcode, alpbetical password etc., But the fingerprint lock is considered as the safest lock in the world as each and everyone of our fingerprints are unique from one another. This is the reason why every smartphone manufacturer came with the stratergy of embedding fingerprint scanner on their smartphone. But fingerprint encryption bein...

This is your identity in Digital World.

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        In today's generation, every little thing is achieved by Technology and technology is overcoming every one of us and the day is not so far where we would be completely replaced by technology and we need to keep our identities safe in this digital World.        So What's our identity is it our user id, mail id, aadhaar id, or Social Security network id what do you think? What will be your identity in this Digital World?        Just think for a second every identity that I mentioned above is connected to one id that is your phone number if you lose this you loose everything.        For example, you go to a bank for a banking service and you find inconvenience in your banking and the bank employee asks for your identity to verify whether it's you, but when you are transacting on a digital platform you would be using third party applications like google pay, Paytm, phonepe you register for a ...

This 150$ Phone can save your privacy.

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In this digital world, the smartphone has become a game-changing device for everyone, it monitors everything from our health to office work, every simple and some hefty tasks are done through our smartphones, but it isn't the only work that a smartphone does it also tracks our activities and are exploited by app developers.    A smartphone travels along with a person in his daily life and it is a spy sitting in everybody's pocket. It records the data and this data are used by the cops, developers, hackers to study the user behavior of the device owner, and in the world of the internet, there is no word for privacy. Even though many of us might try different techniques to save our data there would be a data breach from our device as some of the device manufacturers exploit data from there users as I mentioned in the previous blog. If you want to know your smartphone phone is safe click here .     After reading my previous blog you would have known how a sm...

Why Shouldn't we use Truecaller?

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      We get hundreds of calls a day, where some may be spam and some may be unknown and there are few people who wouldn't attend a call until and unless they know the name of the caller and here comes a role of an app called Truecaller and of course we all know what is Truecaller.      This is the most recommended app that everyone suggests to install and it is pre-installed in most of the devices. It's  an app that identifies the name of the unknown caller who is calling you and it also blocks spam calls. But do you think that installing this app on your device is safe? Before knowing that let's know-how does true caller work.     When you install an app like Truecaller it asks permissions to access your contacts, SMS, Microphone, Camera, etc., You cannot use this app until and unless you give access to these permissions   and you may think that by granting access to these permissions there will be a good user experience bu...

The Part of Internet You should not Access.

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      The invention of the internet has led to the discovery of many things and a lot more inventions. In today's world, everything are connected to the internet and the invention of IOT(Internet Of Things) has made a lot easier that even our vehicles are connected and Controlled via the Internet. We learn a lot of things From the Internet and this article you found is read through means of the internet but everything we see on internet is not good. There are some bad things you should never try to surf on the internet and one among them is Darkweb. Before knowing about Darkweb we have to know about the different types of web. Most of us could have heard through movies and web shows and they are. 1. Surface web :  Surface web are the sites which are indexed to search engines and everyone can access these sites and these sites can be accessed through normal browsers. 2. Deep Web: Deep web is the sites that are not indexed to search engines the...

Can Your Phone be Hacked by a Charger?

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    In today's generation of smartphones, the battery cell of a phone is increased and the battery life of the phone is reduced. The maximum stand by time of a battery could be 8-12 hrs. This isn't sufficient for daily usage and we need to juice up our device and juicing up our device in our home or office is not a big task for us but while we are traveling we look for a charging port to juice up our device and most of the time we use public charging ports to juice up our device. This is the place where a hacker launches his/her cyber attack through the USB port's and this type of attack is called  Juice Jacking.               This is a Digital World where everything surrounding us is digital and this makes our life simple and by the same way even the theft is also happening digital and these thieves are called as hackers and not all the hackers are thieves these thieves are called as Black Hat Hackers and the hacker pr...

Is your smartphone safe?

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        Everyone in this world is using a smartphone. According to Statista  there are 3 billion smartphone users across the globe and there were 54% of data which were breached in India alone and even your data could be there on the list. Below are the methods of how your data are breached study them carefully and protect your data.   How do you think your data are leaked?                  Is it because of vulnerability in your device that hackers get access to your device? Probably not the vulnerability is not in your device it is with you.       Yes, you are the one who is giving access to your data by installing apps from an unknown source and allowing permission for the app which is not necessary.  F or example, if there is a game that does not have anything to do with call and SMS. The maximum permission that a game needs would be storage but still the application would ...