TikTok, a mobile video-sharing service owned by Beijing-based technology company ByteDance, has been around since 2016. Its popularity shifted into hyper-drive over the past two years, with the user count exceeding 2 billion (according to Craig Chapple, a mobile insights strategist) globally at the time of this publication. TikTok generated a whopping 315 million installs in […]
WordPress Security Fundamentals
WordPress dominates the global market of content management systems (CMS). Its tremendous popularity makes it a lure for malicious actors. The WordPress Core in its current state is fairly secure by design, which explains the relatively small number of hacks exploiting it. Here is a guide to WordPress security fundamentals. Cybercriminals are increasingly adept at […]
The Curious Case of Using Airdrop as a Tinder Alternative
Back in 2011, Apple engineers masterminded an awesome feature called AirDrop. It’s intended to facilitate file transfers among supported devices. The process is amazingly simple and doesn’t require device pairing at all — it works out of the box and only takes a few clicks or taps to complete a file exchange. Here is the […]