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How Dangerous is your Mobile Phone Radiation and Can It Really Cause Cancer?

46 Comments / Physical Security, Teen Security, Teens and young adults

Background Your phone, while powered on is always communicating with the network even when you are not active on it, hence a continuous emission of radiation. This is how your phone detects when you have an incoming call or message. Some sources like Berkeley News (2021) and The Guardian (2018) believe that the truth about […]

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These Simple Errors Make it Easier to Hack You!

22 Comments / Cyber Psychology, Cybersecurity, Physical Security, Security, Teen Security

Here are 7 common mistakes that make it easier to hack your system, network or online account. Installing pirated software: Looking for a pirated version of a software could lead you to visit malicious websites containing scripts or malware that might automatically infect your PC once you visit them. Moreover, you might end up downloading

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Tips on Using social media more healthily {Part 2: Unhealthy use of Social Media}

6 Comments / Cyber Psychology, Mental Health, Security, Teen Security, Teens and young adults

We believe you have read part 1 of this article and have seen some of the unhealthy ways we use social media and some negative implications of this. If you have not read the Part 1 of Unhealthy use of social media, we recommend you do so as this is a summary of the 2 previous posts on the

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Unhealthy Use of Social Media {Part 1 Cont’d – Negative Implications}

7 Comments / Cyber Psychology, Cybersecurity, Mental Health, Physical Security, Security, Teen Security, Teens and young adults

This is a continuation of Unhealthy Use of Social Media and its negative implications. Click here to read the previous part of this article. Let’s dive right in. 5- Information about your family/personal life: did you know you can put your family also at risk by posting on your own social media? Yes, you can! However,

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Unhealthy use of Social Media {Part 1-Negative Implications}

16 Comments / Cyber Psychology, Cybersecurity, Mental Health, Teen Security

No doubt, social media has helped us all in various ways. From helping us market our services, to reaching more audience, to keeping up or reconnecting with friends/family, to entertainment and the list goes on. However, as we already know, life is binary. For one side, there is a corresponding other side. Here, we will

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PARENTS: 4 SIMPLE REASONS YOUR TEEN CHILD SHOULD COME STRAIGHT HOME AFTER SCHOOL

2 Comments / Physical Security, Teen Security, Teens and young adults

We will be calling our attention to some risks and dangers posed by leaving your teenage child to wander the streets. We are sure you also must have seen the number of teens wandering the streets after school usually still in uniform, the noise making, careless play on the roadside etc.One obvious risk out of

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