Wednesday, March 5

Tag: cybercriminal

Don’t want to show your phone number when you transact on Paytm? Know this UPI trick
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Don’t want to show your phone number when you transact on Paytm? Know this UPI trick

[ad_1] Gone are the days when it was considered safe to share seemingly innocent information about you without giving it a second thought. Today, with cybercrime on the rise, it is important to keep your data private and only with those you trust. While people are mostly careful around their financial data, passwords, and other sensitive information, one piece of data that is freely available every time you make a UPI (Unified Payments Interface) payment is your phone number. For most people, our UPI ID is our phone number, so anyone, including random shopkeepers, to whom you have made a payment, would probably have access to your phone number. If that bothers you, then do not worry, as you can change your UPI address on Paytm and make it so it is hidden from others. Check this trick. H...
Beware! QR Code scams are on the rise; Know how they work and how to avoid them
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Beware! QR Code scams are on the rise; Know how they work and how to avoid them

[ad_1] The dark side of any technological advancement is that bad actors will use it for their personal advantage. We are already seeing this happen with artificial intelligence as AI-powered malware is being spotted, as well as a higher number of deepfakes have also surfaced. But the threat that is reaching a highly concerning level has to do with QR code-based scams. These online scams are on the rise and have led many people to fall prey to scammers and they end up losing a fortune. You need to know how a QR Code scam works because that will also help you in avoiding such scams altogether. So, let us take a look.A 30-year-old Indian Institute of Science professor recently became a victim of a QR code scam. The professor was trying to sell his washing machine on an online portal on Au...
Australia flags tough new data protection laws this year
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Australia flags tough new data protection laws this year

[ad_1] Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole from a telecommunications company the personal data of 9.8 million customers, the attorney-general said Thursday.Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the government would make “urgent reforms” to the Privacy Act following the unprecedented hack last week on Optus, Australia's second-largest wireless carrier. Dreyfus said “I think it's possible” for the law to be changed in the four remaining weeks that Parliament is scheduled to sit this year. "I'm going to be looking very hard over the next four weeks at whether or not we can get reforms to the Privacy Act into the Parliament before the end of the year,” Dreyfus told reporters. Parliament ne...