A common sentiment, shared by many people down the years, is that storing passwords in browsers is a bad idea. Malware, for example, would specifically target password storage in browsers and plunder everything in sight. Password managers weren't exactly flying off the shelves back in 2007, your only real options were home grown. People ended up saving logins in all sorts of odd places: Text files, email accounts…you name it. Naturally, security-minded folks gravitated towards saving passwords in browsers, because what else were they going to do? The browser password wars Even just 8 years ago, it was still a hotly contested debate . The problem then was that passwords were stored in plain text. They aren't now, but if the device you're using is compromised it doesn't matter. Malware files can decrypt your passwords, or wait for you to do it. So, no matter how recently you look, many of the same threats still exist for browser passwords. And new ones emerge, li...
TikTok, the now widely popular social media platform that allows users to create, share, and discover, amateur short clips—usually something akin to music videos—has been enjoying explosive growth since it appeared in 2017. Since then, it hasn't stopped growing— more so during the current pandemic . Although the latest statistics continue to show that in the US the single biggest age group ( 32.5 percent , at the time of writing) is users between 10 and 19 years of age, older users (aged 25 to 34 years) in countries like China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are quickly overtaking their younger counterparts . Suffice to say, we can no longer categorize TikTok as a "kids' app". This, of course, further enforces the many concerns parents already have about the app. We're not even talking about the possibilities of young children, tweens, and teens seeing dangerous challenges and trends , or pre-teens lip-synching to songs that make grown up eyes...