Google Launches AI-Powered Theft and Data Protection Features for Android Devices

Google just unveiled new "private space" feature lets you keep your sensitive apps hidden and locked with a separate PIN.

thehackernews.com • May 15, 2024

How to Prevent a USB Attack

There are dozens of ways a cyberattacker could use a USB drive to install an exploit on your 💻. It can be via thumb drive devices and public USB charging ports, a practice known as juice jacking.

How to Avoid USB Attacks

✅ Don't Plug In Unknown Drives. One common tactic is sending USB drives to people in the mail and making them look like promo offers from big box tech stores. Do not use it ❗️

✅ Work-Life Balance. If you use a USB drive for work, keep it separate from anything personal. Regularly scan your USB devices with an antivirus or anti-malware program.

✅ Disable Autorun. On Windows: open Control Panel and find the AutoPlay setting. Uncheck Use AutoPlay for all media and devices.

✅ Keep your systems updated, especially if you’re running Windows.

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How to Protect Yourself from Online Shopping Security Threats

Here are easy actions which will reduce your risks during online shopping.

☑️ Update Your Browser and OS. These updates protect devices from vulnerabilities and online attacks.

☑️ Use Powerful Antivirus/Anti-Malware Software. Built with an advanced algorithm, the software detects malicious activities. It even prevents you from unknowingly logging into a malicious website.

☑️ Avoid Using Debit Cards. Using a credit 💳 to shop online is much safer than using a debit 💳. That's because a credit card has more consumer protection.

☑️ Implement Script Blockers (an extension that provides an extra layer of security for browsers). It blocks unnecessary and harmful scripts like JavaScript and iframes on retail stores you visit. You can use this free script blocker.

☑️ Use secured Websites. Avoid websites that don't have HTTPS in their URL or a padlock icon 🔒 beside the URL. 🔒 means your personal information is encrypted.

☑️ Use a VPN.

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🐣 GodMode - the smol AI Chat Browser

GodMode is a dedicated chat browser that only does one thing: help you quickly access the full webapps of ChatGPT, Claude 2, Perplexity, Bing and more with a single keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Shift+G).

As a result, content is generated much faster, and there can be several times more options for creating it along the way. At the same time, you don’t need to depend on the patterns of one specific neuronal networks

https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode

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Glasp Web Highlighter - PDF & Web Highlights

Glasp is a PDF & Web highlighter that helps you collect and organize your favorite quotes and thoughts from the web.

"Glasp Web Highlighter - PDF & Web Highlights" is a free Chrome Extension that lets you quickly highlight websites and PDF files with colored highlighting options, which are then automatically curated to your Glasp homepage. These highlights can then be tagged, searched for, linked to, and shared on a variety of other platforms, including Twitter, Teams, and Slack. YouTube, web article, and PDF summarization functions are powered by AI models such as ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic) and Mistral AI.

Key Features:

✅ Web & PDF highlight with multiple colors: 🔴 🟡 🟢 🔵
✅ Highlight & annotate on YouTube videos: 🎥
✅ AI-powered summary based on annotations: 💎
✅ Highlight & annotate on PDF files: ✍️
✅ Make notes on the highlights: ✍️
✅ Tag and link-to your highlights: 🏷 🔗
✅ Copy-and-paste all the highlights and notes with meta data into your note-taking app in one click 📝
✅ Discover more useful content from other curators: 🤝
✅ Sync all your highlights and notes from Kindle eBooks: 📚
✅ YouTube Summary with ChatGPT and Claude: ❤️
✅ Summarize YouTube videos, web articles, and PDF: ❤️
✅ Generate stunning quoteshots from webpages 🎨

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/glasp-web-highlighter-pdf/blillmbchncajnhkjfdnincfndboieik?pli=1

https://glasp.co/

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Wordtune: Generative AI productivity platform

Wordtune is a Generative AI platform for work productivity. Whether you’re writing emails, creating documents or sending instant messages to colleagues or clients, Wordtune perfects your writing while streamlining your work using AI.

Take your productivity to new heights with the Wordtune Chrome extension — available on all your favorite websites and web apps.

Wordtune’s latest and and most advanced set of GenAI tools for work include:

➡️ Rewrite: Perfect your writing with Wordtune Rewrite — from a single word to an entire page.
➡️ Summarization: Cut reading and watching time in half by summarizing YouTube videos, blog articles, PDFs and more.
➡️ AI writing: Enhance your productivity by writing faster with AI suggestions — all while remaining true to your unique style.
➡️ Corrections and recommendations: Write like the professional you are with AI recommendations. Unleash your thoughts without worrying about grammar or spelling mistakes.
➡️ Smart translation: Choose from 10 languages to Smart translate to English.
➡️ Tones and length: Make sure your message hits the right note — change your tone from professional to casual in just a click. Effortlessly reduce or increase word count depending on your needs.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/wordtune-generative-ai-pr/nllcnknpjnininklegdoijpljgdjkijc

https://www.wordtune.com/

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How To Hide Personal Photos and Videos

For Android:

To natively hide your photos on an Android device, open up your File Manager. Add a new folder, but start the name with a period. Example: .Secrets.

When you move your photos and videos into this folder, they won't appear in your gallery or albums. ❗️You can only access them through your file manager. 👌

For iPhone:

Just select the photo you want to conceal, and tap "Hide" at the bottom of the screen. This will move the image to your Hidden" folder, and it'll stay out of any Moments, Collections, or Albums.

These device-native hiding techniques aren't password protected or encrypted, though, so using them is more risky. If someone knows your phone passcode, they can still access it.

Also there are apps for this task (password protected or encrypted). Would it be interesting for you to know about them?

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Musicat

A sleek desktop music player and tagger for offline music 🪕 With experimental features like map view, GPT analysis, artist toolkit. 

Features:
🎵 supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, OGG
🔗 linked library, using original files on disk
👀 auto-watch and re-scan folders
🏷 with metadata tagging support (read and write ID3v2, Vorbis)
🖼 download album art, origin country from Wikipedia
🎤 fetch lyrics for current song
🗺 World Map view - see your library on a map
💿 a neat mini-player
🎸 U2's latest album automatically added to your library
📊 Stats, album timeline
🤖 Dive deeper with ChatGPT or local Ollama model for additional insights.

https://github.com/basharovV/musicat

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Find and track the IP address of any person

Grabify IP Logger can give you advanced and detailed statistical data and metadata for all clicks on your links. Your IP Logger link can access information about user’s IP address, location tracker (country, city) and so on.

The service works with just 3 simple steps:

✔️ Shorten long link.

✔️ Share the short link with another user.

✔️ Grab IP address after the user clicks on your short link.

Be attantive: you can also be a target of such actions ❗️Be careful opening links!

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Check sites for viruses and phishing

Here is the service that check sites for phishing: scanurl.net for free.

What is phishing?

Phishing is a method of fraud, when a fake website pretends to be the original, in order to obtain confidential user information.

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How to store text messages safely?

We store most of our valuable information in text form, and if fraudsters gain access, the situation will be very unpleasant.

Paranoia Text Encryption protects your notes, cryptocurrency keys, emails, social media posts and any other text from spies, hackers and prying eyes.

The app provides real security because data is encrypted using strong encryption algorithms: Blowfish 448bit, AES 256bit, RC6 256bit, Serpent 256bit, Twofish 256bit, GOST 256bit +.

Simply copy and paste to and from your favorite apps or save to a file for later use. Available on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux.

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Stop sites from tracking the links you visit

There is a tracking mechanism that is triggered when a person clicks on various links and hyperlinks. Since you are now aware of it, you may want to protect yourself.

Ping Blocker is a browser extension that prevents sites from tracking the links you visit through hyperlink auditing.

The extension is also available for Edge and Firefox.

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How to copy text from a photo or a document

Sometimes you need some text from an image, don't you? Brandfolder is a text extractor that allow you to extract text from any image.

You may upload an image or document (.pdf) and the tool will pull text from the image. Once extracted, you can copy to your clipboard with one click.

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Work with tabs as "trees" in Firefox

If you are not satisfied with the usual tab system, you can make it more convenient and structured. To do this you just need to install the Tree Style Tab extension.

New tabs opened from the current tab are automatically organized as "children" of the current tab.

Such "branches" are easily folded (collapsed) by clicking on the arrow shown in the "parent" tab, so you no longer need to suffer from too many visible tabs.
If you want, you can restructure the tree 🌳 via drag and drop.

You can hide or open this panel with the F1 key or the extension icon at the top.

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Encrypt your data 

You need to securely protect your data. One of the best tools for it is VeraCrypt. It's simple, easy to install, you just have to come up with a strong password and not store it digitally.

My laptop hard drive has been encrypted for years: I enter a password every time that can neither be recovered nor reset.

VeraCrypt is used by hackers, investigators, journalists and anyone else who deals with important data. So far, not a single intelligence agency in the world has managed to decipher VeraCrypt algorithms.

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Save your data from a stolen smartphone

You should be warned in advance that you may have your 📱 stolen and tried to unlock it - it's not uncommon. To save important data from falling into the wrong hands, there is this app and smarthack 👇:

✔️ If you have an iPhone, open the settings and in the section "Face ID and password code" turn on the option "Erase data". After the tenth attempt to enter the wrong password, the 📱 will delete all data.

✔️ Wasted is an app (for Android) which completely locks 🔐 and wipes the device in an emergency situation. For example, if it has not been turned on for several days: this number of days can be adjusted.

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Tips for working with Microsoft
Word

✅ To quickly insert the current date, press SHIFT + ALT + D, and to insert the time, SHIFT + ALT + T.

✅ If you accidentally typed a text with the CAPS LOCK key enabled, then select the text in uppercase and press SHIFT + F3.

✅ To speed up the cursor movement through the text, hold down CTRL and use the arrows.

✅ By holding CTRL, you can select all the parts of the text you are interested in, even if they are not arranged in a row.

✅ The F4 key repeats the last command used.

✅ Place the cursor at the beginning of the text selection and click at the end of the desired text segment with the SHIFT key held down for quick selection.

✅ Press CTRL + ENTER to quickly create a new sheet.

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Сheck if your data is leaking through a VPN

Do I Leak is a tool to check for data leaks through VPNs. It is designed to detect most leaks that could reveal your real identity.

To test, go to the link, select "VPN Leak Test" and click on "Begin test". Then follow the simple instruction and the service will check everything for you. Use only verified VPN services.

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