Category: Security

These days with increasing use of webmeetings, the web-cam becomes a very important accessory for day-to-day use. Most in-built webcams on laptops do not have a very good resolution, necessitating deployment of an external webcam through the USB port. However, you may have observed that the camera on your phone is far superior.

The Iriun app on the Play Store and App Store, allows you to use your superior mobile phone camera on your PC or Mac, wirelessly. The setup is as simple as it could be. Just install the app on your phone and on your PC or Mac on the same wireless network. Run Iriun on your phone. Then start your webmeeting software (Zoom / Teams / Skype) and select Iriun webcam as your camera. And, magically, your phone camera is enabled and available online! Excellent quality and basic options to use it in portrait or landscape mode and also the choice to use the front or back camera are available. With a powerful, speedy wi-fi connection, it can broadcast in 4k mode also!

A very useful accessory for your online toolkit!

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There are many sensors in your phone and your Microphone and Camera are important to protect your privacy. When we install Apps, they ask for a variety of permissions some of which may not really be needed for efficient performance of the app. You don’t want apps to use your camera and microphone when no such usage is warranted. It is therefore important to routinely check on app permissions.

To check which of your apps are using your camera and microphone, open the Settings menu on your Android phone. In settings, search for Privacy or App Permissions. Once you are here, you can look up which of your apps are using your Camera and which your Microphone. Each one will display the apps in four parts – Allowed all the time, Only while in use, Ask Everytime and Disabled. You may choose any option as per your and your app’s needs. If you have any doubt about any app using your Camera or Microphone unauthorisedly, you may choose to disable the permission and if the app will not work if the permission is not granted, just uninstall the app immediately. This will improve and set your privacy settings as per your needs.

When we delete files from our windows computers, it does not erase the files completely. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface. To ensure that your confidential and sensitive files are completely erased from your hard disk, use eraser.heidi.ie
Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Eraser is a free software and can be used on multiple versions of Windows.
So next time you delete any sensitive files, be sure to use eraser – better be safe than sorry.

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Bitwarden is an open source password manager for Android. It is an extremely easy and safe way to store all your logins and passwords while conveniently keeping them synced between all your devices.

Bitwarden stores all your logins in an encrypted vault that syncs across all your devices. Since it is fully encrypted before it ever leaves your device, only you have access to your data. Not even the team at Bitwarden can read your data, even if we wanted to. Your data is sealed with AES-256 bit encryption, salted hashing, and PBKDF2 SHA-256.

Since it is Open Source, it is completely free and will always be free. However, to support the developers, you may upgrade to premium – it is just $10 per year.

Take your security seriously, go for Bitwarden!

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Browsing the net from your phone has its own share of risks. Prying eyes, stealing bots, and what not. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) shields you from the perils of such predators. NordVPN app lets you enjoy secure and private internet access in just a single tap – on your smartphone, tablet, or your Android TV.

This app keeps your online activity private from ISPs, advertisers, and other snoopers. It also secures your internet traffic with military-grade encryption so that no one can get their hands on your online data. When you browse the net, it also changes your IP address so that you appear to be browsing from a different location. With servers in 60 countries – you could be browsing from any country without anyone knowing. And, if you hop on to any WiFi network, you can rest assured that your sensitive data is safe – the CyberSec feature protects you from malware, spyware and other malicious content. And all this, without compromising a bit on speed!

Be fast and secure with NordVPN, a small price to pay for safety!

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This Google password manager helps you see, change, or remove passwords you saved in your Google Account. You can have Chrome remember your passwords for different sites. To use your passwords on different devices, turn sync on in Chrome, and when it asks you whether you wish to save your password securely, it allows you to do so.

Over a period of time after saving your password on many sites, you may like to review your passwords – how many are common, how many are weak and how many are already compromised. This gives a fair amount of overview of all your passwords on the net.

Of course, the recommendation for the compromised passwords is to immediately update them to something different and difficult. Common passwords need to be changed so that each site uses a unique password and the weak passwords need to be updated to something more difficult.

A quick glance will keep you abreast of the security level of your passwords and let you change them, if needed, just in time!