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5 Ways to Enhance Your Cyber Security
We live in a new age, a digital one that changes remarkably from year to year if not from day to day. It’s slowly evolving and forming into what it will be. Though it seems that we have been here for a while, our society is still really only at the beginning of the digital age. One of the biggest concerns of our new age is data protection and cyber security. Consulting with an expert (who asked that neither he or his company be named), he recommended 5 ways to increase your cyber security:
Use Different Passwords on Each Site
This is actually a pretty simple measure, but most people typically don’t do this. That’s understandable considering a vast majority of us have accounts on an uncounted number of sites. Staying up-to-date with social media causes most people to have at least three. That’s before you add in sites like Amazon, Google, eBay, and sites for credit cards or banking. Most people aren’t going to remember twenty or more different passwords. Luckily, some nifty software engineer created a password manager. A password manager will keep all those different passwords together so you can have security and don’t have to worry about remembering 20+ passwords. Here’s a list of ones to look at!
Uninstall Unneeded Apps
I shudder to think about how many apps I’ll need on my phone in even the next five years. The truth is that even though I have over a hundred apps, I probably only use around thirty of them even semi-consistently. Delete the apps you never use when your phone gets cluttered. Those apps typically have access to and record information on you. And if someone were to hack that app, it likely doesn’t have the most robust security… then the hacker has your information. So declutter your phone and trash all of those apps that you don’t use.
Don’t Overshare On Social Media
This is about accidentally giving out the answers to our password reset questions. When this happens we do it innocuously. Simply put most of us aren’t thinking when we tell Facebook about our first puppy named Dozer and how cute he was. Or even when we share with our friend and discuss our favorite book. We aren’t hackers so it never crosses our mind when we unintentionally tell someone the answer to a security question. We didn’t share it and think about the security. It’s just a cute story or something we love talking about. But to someone else out there its an open door to steal your information. So be conscious of what you’re posting online.
Use Two Factor Authorization
This term in cyber security sounds like something most of us aren’t familiar with, but its actually something that’s quite common. Have you ever went to sign into an account on a new device and a message pops up saying that it has to send you an email or a text to verify that you are you? That’s two-factor authentication. So make sure you have it set it up. Most popular sites offer it in some variety. Not all will be able to send you a text message, but an email is something that most website have been able to do for many years now.
If It Looks Too Good to be True, It Probably Is
This is probably the most obvious advice in cyber security and yet also the one that tricks most people. For example, your Xbox live account could get hacked while trying to win a pass for a closed beta on a random and unsafe website. Basically, we want to believe. Whether out of naivety or innocence we see something that just seems perfect and we want to believe it’s real. It’s much better to be suspicious and curious. It’s better to be cynical than to have someone steal your information.
Google has recently used CES as a platform to present its philosophy of “Better Together,” the notion that all devices should get along with one another. Typically, this entails making announcements regarding new Cast compatibility and features like Fast Pair. The business revealed that it is collaborating with Spotify to incorporate the Connect streaming capability into the Android UI at CES 2023. Additionally, it showed a sneak peek at an audio handoff tool that would recommend various devices to shift your music to based on your preferences and location.
However, CES is a significant vehicle event, and Google also sells items for cars. Additionally, it said today that the Polestar 3 would receive its higher-resolution maps, and it debuted the most recent Android Auto user interface for the first time since it was revealed at I/O 2022.
Two vehicles, a Volvo EX90 with Google preinstalled and a BMW i7 with the new Android Auto experience, were at the Google stand in the trailer lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. We had never seen the Volvo before, and we’ll be posting a separate hands-on on that experience shortly. The new Android Auto is the main topic of this article and video.
The redesigned interface will support larger screen sizes and have a split screen layout, as we discovered at I/O. Google has eliminated the status bar and inserted a row of shortcut keys below it, along with some indication icons in a small area to the top left. When we were in the car, the Spotify app was located on the left panel, and we could access a list of suggested playlists by swiping in from the right side.
Alerts that you won’t have time to respond to while driving are likewise stored in this left pane. For instance, you can swipe right on a notification to move it to the dock, where it will wait until you’re ready to deal with it.
Check out the video up top for more of our experience with the updated Android Auto in the BMW i7! And be sure to pay attention this week as there will be a ton of news at CES 2023.
Additionally, stand-alone groups will now have access to 32-person video chats.
One of the new features that WhatsApp is introducing is one that aims to group together related group chats. The Communities feature, which was introduced earlier this year by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, aims to let users consolidate group chats “under one umbrella with a structure that works for them.” For Facebook and Instagram, comparable technologies are under development.
In the upcoming months, communities will be accessible to all WhatsApp users. To discuss topics that are important to you, you can create smaller group chats inside a community and easily switch between them. WhatsApp will provide administrators with “strong new capabilities” to govern communities, including the capacity to select which groups to include and the option to broadcast announcements to all users.
WhatsApp suggests that communities may be created through local areas, workplaces, and parents with children attending the same school. To begin, select the Communities tab from the menu at the top of the Android app or the bottom of the iOS screen. You will have the option of building a community from scratch or expanding an existing one.
The Communities feature has some similarities to Facebook Groups (as well as Nextdoor and Discord), but it is protected by end-to-end encryption. Making group chats more like Facebook Groups, where false information has thrived in recent years, may have some drawbacks, even though Zuckerberg has been eying a community-driven model to lessen the reliance on feeds across Meta’s applications. Due to the platform’s focus on encryption, WhatsApp generally has fewer moderation capabilities, which may make it harder to keep a lid on fabrications.
In other places, WhatsApp is giving groups—including those that aren’t connected to a community—new functionality. Group polls are also being added, along with support for the 32-person encrypted video conversations that Meta has been beta-testing over the past few weeks. Furthermore, groups now support a maximum of 1,024 people.
Numerous apps are available for music, which has the power to uplift individuals. The top Android music player apps are listed here!
Nowadays, private music collections are uncommon due to music streaming. A personal music collection is still beneficial to many people, though. Higher-quality music is available; it is offline-compatible and doesn’t require a subscription. Thankfully, there are several options available for grooving out to your favorite music. Here are our top choices for Android music player apps.
The best music player apps for Android
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