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Billions of Android owners urged to turn on three hidden safety locks – you’re living on the edge without them

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THESE three quick tricks will keep upgrade your phone’s security.

You might be tempted to download a security subscription service to keep your Android safe from hackers or thieves.

There are three life-saving tips that will padlock your phone shutCredit: GETTY

But there are free, ready-to-go safety tricks hidden on your phone — you simply need to know where to look.

Here are three life-saving tips that will padlock your phone shut, according to Computer World.

1. Safe Browsing

Chrome‘s Safe Browsing mode is enabled by default, but there is a newer and more effective version.

It’s called “Enhanced Safe Browsing” and will operate “in the background to provide faster, proactive protection against dangerous websites, downloads, and extensions,” according to Google’s website.

Here’s how you access it:

  • Open Chrome on your Android.
  • Select the three-dot menu icon in the app’s upper-right corner.
  • Select Settings > Privacy and Security > Safe Browsing. Tap the dot next to “Enhanced protection.”

An extra helpful tip: Return to Chrome’s Settings menu and select “Safety check.”

This will open a useful one-tap tool for scanning browser settings and saved passwords, and will let you know of any possible breaches or weak spots in your security.

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2. Smart Lock

Android’s Smart Lock feature is designed to make security simpler, by pausing the extra protections when it’s in your hands.

It will automatically allow you to keep your phone unlocked whenever you’re in a trusted place like your home or office, or when you’re connected to a commonly-used Bluetooth device, like your earbuds.

Here’s how depending on your device type:

  • For Android 12 and later, Android settings > Security > Advanced Settings.
  • For earlier Android versions, open Android settings > Security > Screen Lock.
  • For Samsung devices, Settings > Lock Screen.

3. Lockdown Mode

No, not that kind of lockdown.

The handy Android setting called “Lockdown Mode” provides you with an easy way to temporarily lockdown your phone.

In this mode, only a pattern, PIN, or password can get a person past your lock screen and into your device.

It temporarily shuts down your phone from all biometric and Smart Lock…

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Hacking Crypto Wallets Is Latest Strategy in Quest to Recover Lost Billions

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Early statistics on ether (ETH), the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, are harder to come by. However, data provided to CoinDesk by Crypto Asset Recovery shows that 7% of presale wallets have never had any crypto move – suggesting the ETH in those wallets have just been sitting there, untouched, ever since the Ethereum blockchain went live in 2015. That’s 621 of the 8,893 wallet addresses, or 521,574.608 ETH (roughly $875 million today).

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Android mobile phone privacy settings: Warning for billions of Android owners

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Mobile phone owners across the world are being warned to check their Wi-Fi settings, due to a little-known privacy concern with Android mobiles.

A viral TikTok video has revealed that simply turning off Wi-Fi on an Android device doesn’t mean it is not working, and it could still be running in the background.

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TikTok star @tatechtips shared the advice in a video, advising users to check their Wi-Fi scanning settings.

“Turning off your Wi-Fi, doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve turned off your Wi-Fi,” he said.

The video went on to explain users should go to ‘Location Services’ in settings and then ‘Wi-Fi Scanning’, where an option asks if apps can ‘use Wi-Fi for location detection even when Wi-Fi is turned off’.

Billions of Android users are being warned of the little-known privacy concern.  Credit: TikTok/ @tatechtips 

“So that means when you’ve turned your Wi-Fi off, but you’ve got your scanning on, your phone is still constantly sending probe requests for Wi-Fi,” he said.

“So if you want an extra level of privacy, turn your Wi-Fi scanning off as well.”

The video has received more than 67,000 likes, with many users commenting that they had no idea the Wi-Fi could still be running in the background.

“Thank you, I’ve always wanted to turn it off but never knew how,” one user said.

“Thanks. More privacy, the better. Turn it off immediately,” another added.

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API Security Losses Total Billions, But It’s Complicated

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US companies face a combined $12 billion to $23 billion in losses in 2022 from compromises linked to Web application programming interfaces (APIs), which have proliferated with the increased adoption of cloud services and DevOps-style development methodologies, according to an analysis of breach data.

In the last decade, API security has grown to become a significant cybersecurity issue. Acknowledging this, the Open Web Security Application Project (OWASP) released a top-10 list of API security issues in 2019, flagging major API weaknesses — such as broken authorization for objects, weak user authentication, and excessive data exposure — as critical issues for software makers and companies that rely on cloud services.

According to the Quantifying the Cost of API Insecurity report out this week, published last week by application-security firm Imperva and risk-strategy firm Marsh McLennan, security issues will only likely grow as APIs continue to become a common pattern for cloud and mobile infrastructure.

“The growing security risks associated with APIs correlates with the proliferation of APIs,” says Lebin Cheng, vice president of API security for Imperva. “The volume of APIs used by businesses is growing rapidly — nearly half of all businesses have between 50 and 500 deployed, either internally or publicly, while some have over a thousand active APIs.”

Interestingly, the business losses have less to do with API-specific issues, the analysis found. Rather, breach recovery and interruption of operations account for the majority of the cyber-losses. Only a small subset of companies in any country suffered losses directly linked to API vulnerabilities, the report found.

API Losses Vary by Business Segment

The Marsh McLennan data comes from reported breaches, which represents a subset of all businesses. It found that when drilling down into the data, important differences between impact can be drawn out.

For instance, certain kinds of companies (larger firms in IT and professional services, for example) are much more likely to face API-related security incidents than others (smaller companies, say, in the finance sector).

“The $12 billion is not distributed over millions of…

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