IFTTT Moves To Become The Glue Of The Smart Home

For the past few years, there has been a number of efforts to tie together the fragmented smart home world. Big tech players like Alphabet-owned Nest, Apple, Samsung and Amazon have all tried their hands at it to varying degrees of success. IFTTT, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2010, has been a bit of an unsung hero here.

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10 Tips On Keeping Your Mobile Device Safe While Traveling

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We read about cybercrime, hacking and security threats continuously. We shake our heads in a resigned fashion, close the article and go on about our business. When we travel, we’re more interested in getting that email sent or in sharing our latest photo to bother about whether the network we’re accessing is safe or not.
It goes on like this until we find ourselves on the receiving end, like the victims in the articles we read. For a moment, we do not believe it could have happened to us – weren’t the articles more of a cautionary tale than actual stories? No. Unfortunately, they weren’t.
We are surrounded by cyber threats but we’re at our most vulnerable when we’re abroad. Most of us go on a WiFi hunting spree and we’re so happy when we manage to find one which is free, that we don’t stop to think whether it could just be bait.
Our mobile phones have become loaded with sensitive data, both personal and business-related. Being hacked has therefore become more of a risk. “More and more often we’re seeing either Android- or iPhone-based vulnerabilities being targeted,” Joe Nocera information security expert from Pricewaterhouse Cooper says. It’s not just PCs which are being targeted. On the contrary, mobile has become the hacker’s favourite target.
Don’t despair just yet. There are a number of tips you can follow and although taken individually they are not fool-proof, following a number of them can help you raise the safety bar up quite a few levels.

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