91% of Australian teens have a phone – but many are not keeping their identity and location secure

Halfpoint/ Shutterstock , CC BY Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Charles Sturt University and Julie Maclean, Charles Sturt University Most Australian teenagers have their own smartphone. According to a 2023 survey, 91% of young people between 14 and 17 owned a phone. At the same time, there is huge community concern about young people being exposed to harms online – this includes the content they consume and the interactions they might have. But there is also concern about their privacy and security. A 2023 UK study found teenagers are overly optimistic about the degree to which they can protect their personal information online. This is a problem because smartphones can communicate information such as identities and locations when settings are not figured correctly. Our new project – which has been funded by the eSafety Commissioner and will soon be available online – looked at how to teach students to be safer with their phones. What are the risks? Without changing the default settings, a phone (or smart watch, laptop or tablet) can share information such as full names, current...

Read More........ → November 06, 2024

Way to get back old layout of Facebook

The social media platform 'Facebook' has given a new design layout since the beginning of this month. However, many people did not understand this new layout properly.Many people are having trouble understanding many things of the new Facebook layout. Nevertheless, section 3.2 of Facebook's Terms of Service will be updated from October 1 though many users have got the new layout in the meantime. Many users feel disturbing to this new update. However, Google Chrome users on the computer can go back to the old layout from the new Facebook layout if they want.In this case, if you add 'Old Layout for Facebook' with the ad extension of Google Chrome, you will get back the old layout of Facebook. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.c...

Read More........ → September 30, 2020

Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked

Twitter said it has fixed the account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website that was briefly hacked in the wee hours and tweets asking people to donate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were posted on it. Twitter said it has secured the compromised account known as @narendramodi_in. The affected account is linked to PM Modi's personal website and has more than 2.5 million followers. "We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. According to Twitter, this breach was not due to a compromise of its systems or service. "There is no indication or evidence of any correlation between this account compromise and the incident that took place in July," the company said in a statement shared with IANS. Twitter faced a mega crypto hack in July that spread a Bitcoin scam by hijacking accounts of high-profile celebrities, politicians and businesses as a result of a phone spear-phishing attack. "I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National...

Read More........ → September 03, 2020