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If you google tailgating right now, you may come across a definition that will confuse you as to why we’re discussing the term. It is usually used to refer to the dangerous act of driving your car too close behind another vehicle, which is a common strategy for transposing automatic toll gates, for example. However, […]

Explaining the term “fake news” is probably unnecessary — it has been around for some time now and has even become a topic of discussion on social networks and in barroom conversations. Basically, we are referring to fake news that is disseminated on the Internet with the aim of spreading disinformation and influencing citizens on […]

Imagine you are attending an online work meeting and your computer — or smartphone — is repeatedly notifying you of a new available update. Has this ever happened to you? These update notifications are almost always ignored by users because they often take time to update the devices. Although at first we may be hesitant […]

Do you remember when the term BYOD took over the headlines and soon became a buzzword in the corporate setting? This term is an acronym for “Bring Your Own Device”, a concept created by Intel in 2009. That year, the company began to allow its employees to bring their own smartphones, tablets, and even laptops […]

It is practically impossible, over the last few years, that you’ve never come across a single QR Code at some point in your life. We are talking about those two-dimensional square images, formed by large cubes at three of the corners with a series of smaller squares inside. When read by a smartphone, they can […]

You’ve certainly heard — or read somewhere — about NFC technology, but not everyone knows exactly what it is or how it works. First of all, this may come as a surprise to many: although it has only become popular in Brazil in recent years, the NFC standard (an acronym for Near-Field Communications) is not […]

Phishing is one of the most widely known scams in the cybersecurity world, and statistics show that people still need to be informed about the subject, as in 2021 alone more than 150 million Brazilians were victims of this type of scam.  What is phishing? Phishing is a digital scam in which criminals use bait […]

What started as a simple educational action by the Council of Europe has ended up becoming a date celebrated throughout the continent and the rest of the world. This commemorative date reminds us of the importance of safeguarding our new personal information.   A lot of people don’t know it, but January 28 is a […]

Up until the early 1990s, when the internet was still in its infancy in the United States, many people logged on for the very first time using university systems to access Usenet academic forums. With the arrival of a new academic year, new students caused major headaches for the veterans – at least until the […]