Amer Owaida
How to handle internet trolls
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that you may not be able to escape internet trolls, but you have a choice about how you will deal with them – here’s how you can handle trolls without los...
Most health apps engage in unhealthy tracking capabilities
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that most medical and fitness apps in Google Play have tracking capabilities enabled and their data collection practices aren’t transparent
700 million LinkedIn users data up for grabs on a hacking forum
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses the latest breach at LinkedIn, where all the information was scraped from LinkedIn user profiles includes full names, gender, email addresses and phone n...
How to know if a website is safe?
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that it can be difficult to tell a legitimate website apart from an unsafe one – follow these steps to identify and protect yourself from bad websites
Cyberattacks targeting gaming industry skyrocket
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET highlights that during the COVID-19 pandemic period the cyberattacks targeting the gaming industry skyrocket, with web attacks more than tripling year-on-year in 2...
How to secure teens from 5 common scams
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains in this article that from knock-off designer products to too-good-to-be-true job offers, here are five common schemes fraudsters use to trick teenagers ou...
How to encourage your children to use secure passwords
On the occasion of the World Password Day, Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains how wizards and superheroes can help your kids stay safe from cyber-villains and other parenting hacks to encou...
Stolen gift cards worth $38 million being sold at dark web
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that easy to redeem and hard to trace, gift cards remain a hot commodity in the criminal underground
Pet’s name a preferred password for many
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses a study conducted recently in UK reveals that one in six people use their pet’s name as their password, which has become so common and easily hacka...