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Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) is a type of fraud where the victim is contacted by telephone, text message or email by someone pretending to be a legitimate organisation. The fraudster will then try and trick you into providing sensitive data like your passwords, credit card details and address under false pretexts. Phishing attacks can take many forms, from official-looking emails asking you to confirm a password to threatening phone calls ordering you to take urgent action. The mos...

Search giant Google is famous for its quirky, colourful doodles commemorating various important occasions - be it major festivals or birth or death anniversaries of famous personalities. This time, however, the search giant is commemorating an astronomical event - the Great Conjunction of planets Jupiter and Saturn along with the Winter Solstice. Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year -- a phenomena that occurs when one of the Earths poles has its maximum tilt aw...

Telecompaper Google Chrome, Eset extend collaboration against online threats Wednesday 16 December 2020 | 17:21 CET | News Slovakia-based cyber-security specialist Eset and Google have extended their cooperation on Chrome Cleanup, part of Chromes Safe Browsing feature. As applied in Chrome Cleanup, Esets technology is used by Google to alert users about unwanted or potentially harmful software attempting to sneak into end-user devices by, for example, getting bundled into the downl...

The doodle has been illustrated by Camilla Ru, a Manchester-based guest artist.