How to use the IRS’s free IP PIN, the best way to keep a criminal from nabbing your income tax refund
Filing an income tax return is few people’s idea of fun — but it’s worse when you can’t file the return because somebody using your identity already did. That increasingly common type of fraud can be ...
Six-Digit OTP Code Trap: How Scammers Hack Your WhatsApp Account
A chain of WhatsApp hackings by scammers came to light. Victims received a message from a known contact saying they had ...
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Why six digit PINs are no better for security than four digits
“It seems that users currently do not understand intuitively what it is that makes a six-digit PIN secure,” added colleague Markus Dürmuth. In the study, subjects used Apple or Android devices, and ...
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Why You Should Sign Up for the I.R.S.’s Identity Theft Prevention Tool
Then you get a six-digit IP PIN to use when filing your taxes each year. Easy enough, right? But my inbox is filled these days with deep wariness. For weeks now, the so-called Department of ...
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How to easily change your credit card PIN? Follow these simple steps
Your credit card PIN is usually a 4 digit or 6 digit number which secures your card from unauthorised usage of your card. This PIN is only known to you and is extremely important whenever you make ...