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How to Protect Baby Monitors from Being Hacked?

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Baby monitors are boon for families constituting both parents working or single parent. Not only that, the device can help parents monitor their baby even when they are in some other room. Furthermore, parents can use it to keep an eye on the caretakers looking after your baby. It is the most convenient way to ensure the safety of your child. You could be away from your child due to various unavoidable reasons but by simply logging into your baby monitor app, you could get virtually closer to your child. However, one needs to bear in mind that these baby monitors are often connected to the Wi-Fi and almost all wireless connections are at the risk of being hacked. This issue becomes even graver because people are ready to spend billions to secure the data on their desktops, laptops, and sometimes even phones but may not view a baby monitor as a threat. The fact that something as simple as a baby monitor may seem too innocent to be hacked makes it a more damaging threat. Why

A Beginner’s Guide to TV App for iPhone and iPad

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Want to watch your favorite TV series? Are you a movie buff and often wish to explore new titles and view them? Well, look no further. Apple’s TV application is a fantastic platform to watch content online. This app is a set of Movies and shows applications and offers a single place for users to get various video streaming apps. It provides an integrated television experience. All the television series and films from all the applications and platforms are brought together in a single location. How to set up TV app on iPhone or iPad? Unlock the iOS device. Tap on the Settings app. Scroll down and locate TV Provider. Tap on it. Select the provider. Key in the email and password. How to use Library in the TV app? The TV app contains an area where all the available movies and TV series can be found. Users can go through their content and sort it out by their genre, purchase date, etc. Also, whenever users want to play any movie, they can just ta

Five Kinds of Cyber Security Attacks

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Just like people keep on developing new apps and special security systems, in the similar way there are people who keep on creating new viruses. These people never use the same kind of virus twice, as they have innovative minds. There are different ways in which the hackers implement cyber hacking. Some hackers want data while the others just have to make money. Malware and vectors are the most common type of cyber attacks.  Some others are:- Brute force attack, cyber fraud, and DDoS. 1.       Malware : Once the malware is introduced into the system, it will cause high damage by erasing all the information stored in hardware. It usually targets people who are not well versed with the IT and pay less attention towards the corrupt files. 2.       Vectors : Used to gain access to the system and the networks to contaminate the computer with stolen data. They can be categorized into three main categories such as social engineering, pharming, and phishing. All three are used to g

How to be Safe on Social Media?

Nowadays we get to hear about the increasing cyber crimes, and newspapers are full of news comprising fraudulent Facebook friendships. Teenagers are far more excited to access social media that they don’t bother about their security. This impulsive behavior can sometimes be hazardous. However, this catastrophe can be controlled by following some simple measures such as:- 1 . Being yourself online : Don’t behave under peer pressure and becomes something else in front of strangers, they may make an image of yours in their head, and this can later hurt your self-esteem to the core. 2 . Don’t discuss physical stuff with anyone online : Be it your friend or any stranger, never discuss personal matters with anyone online, You may never know what is on another person mind, there are instances of identity thefts in such cases, get vigilant and don’t allow anyone to take advantage of you. 3 . Don’t share overly edited pictures : Let your photo lo

Stop OS X Beta Software Update Notification In Mac App Store

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If you have downloaded and installed any of the beta versions of OS X so far, there are chances that you will keep getting the regular software updates in the Mac App Store. When you get an official regular update excluding beta, then we highly recommend you to update it because most often, there’s a security bug solution. However, with beta updates, it’s not always seen that you update it and eventually, it turns out to be annoying. Note: Many users have issues that being notified for every small beta update may be important sometime, but in most cases only for developers who develop the software for OS X, but for the regular users, this is not even a case. Beta updates are precisely not meant for users. Follow the steps mentioned below to stop the OS X beta software update notification in Mac app store: 1.      First of all, ensure that the Mac App Store is not open. Close it. 2.      Tap on the Apple Menu and go to the System Preferences. 3.      Then ta

How to Use Animated GIF Images and Videos as Backgrounds For Mac?

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The word GIF stands for graphics interchange format; it contains a number of frames or images in a particular file and is portrayed by its own graphics control extension. The frames and images are set in a specific order that intends to convey animation. An animated GIF can be looping incessantly or can be stopped after some sequences. Animated GIF is an addition of the GIF standard that works to permit the animated images to be created by some cramming frames’ set into a particular file for playback in sequences. I suppose that you may have seen the web pages while using most of the websites decorated with video backgrounds but did you know that it can also be possible to start using animated GIF images and videos as wallpapers on your Mac desktop. Natively, the static wallpaper images are supported by OS X, but there’s some Mac utility known as GIFPaper that adds support for any of the live animated backgrounds to your desktop. Go through the guidelines given bel

The Alexa-Cortana Deadly Duo is Released for Public

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They say that two is company. Little did we know that the same applies to personal digital assistants too! When Microsoft and Amazon declared last year that they would be collaborating to roll out an Alexa and Cortana crossover, it seemed like a goal of the distant future. However, when the Alexa-Cortana partnership went live, it sent the tech world in an excited tizzy. Now you can interact with Cortana on Echo devices and summon Alexa over Windows 10 devices. Echo users will have to log into their Microsoft accounts to access Cortana. Furthermore, before accessing any controls offered by the other voice assistant, you will have to ask your current assistant to open the other. Once you give the command, irrespective of the device environment, your voice data will be collected by the assistant’s respective cloud. The mega corporations understand that the two AIs can mutually learn from each other’s strengths. This includes Cortana getting a lesson from Alexa in controlling smar

How to Transfer PDF Files to a Kindle

Amazon’s Kindle is an incredibly handy device for reading books. If you use Kindle or its app, then you might be aware that it supports PDF format. You do not have to convert the file into a more suited format as Kindle supports PDF. You can get PDF on your Kindle device or app very easily. The process to transfer a PDF file to a Kindle is given below: Transfer PDF to Kindle via Email Firstly, you will have to get your sent to Kindle email address. You can move PDF files to your Kindle device through this email address. Go to the Amazon website. Click on My Devices and sign into the account. Navigate the page and click on Personal Document Settings. Now, just note down the email address mentioned there. You may also add another email address. Now, simply sign in to your email account. You may use any email service. Depending on the email service you are using, click on the write email/compose button. If you are using Gma