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FCC considers new rules to stop the scammers from hijacking the cell phone.

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 SIM swapping and port-out fraud can be fatal to your personal information. The FCC is looking for new rules to amend for the tightening security around your data and phones in order to prevent the sim swapping and port out frauds in which fraudsters can access the personal information and phone number for nefarious purposes. The agency revealed that it has received numerous complaints from the consumers and has suffered financial harm and significant distress due to this. Sim swapping is when someone hijacks your phone number to interfere with the two-factor authentication code(which you use to verify login access or account access). The anonymous access the phones and sends the data to the other device without the user's consent and permissions and they even won't know that their data are exposed. Port-out fraud occurs when the fraudsters open an account with different cell phone carriers than the victims and has the victim's phone number transferred to the new account wi...
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What if you could know the unknowns behind the screen?

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 Everyone is quite curious in today's world about everything and wants to jump into the deepest of it possible but due to some restrictions or maybe it's not in their control so they limit themselves as the first layer of everything only. In the current era, data and privacy is the heatest topic across the globe. Everyone is concerned about it. Since we are going digital and needed to share our details with the companies one is always a bit scared about their data that might be misused and that's true somewhere. Almost more than half of the world's total population are right now using the internet and are present on several social media sites where they share their real info so that each one of them can be identified by their friends or knowns but what about if someone is using fake information and is trying to be someone else behind one end. Here our mind sparks that how would they be looking or who it would be in real. But we failed to recognize them and we either ign...
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Why Apple takes privacy seriously?

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 The tech giant Apple is ruling the world from 21st century by its innovative ideas and creations that attracts people mind and thoughts. Whatever the kind of people you may be at least once in your life you want to have an Apple device. But the fact is why people are so attracted to it. If we see there are so many OSs available and there are so many competitors to it. One of them is Android. Although the percent of Android is more than that of Apple because it's cheap and affordable for a common man to afford the same facilities available. But wait a sec! What makes it unique even if we get the same feature in Android too? Right, the same features but have you ever thought of your privacy. This is the term that makes it unique and out of league from everywhere in the tech world. Apple really takes privacy seriously for over a decade and that's what its CEO Steve Jobs committed while in an interview in 2010. Image: Apple Maintaining your privacy is a big deal in the current sit...
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