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How many calls from call centers do you receive per month? How often do unrecognized numbers, with different dialing codes, appear on the screen of your smartphone? Yes, we know. Way too many! And amidst all these attempts at contact, some are authentic while others are scams that are really hard to identify. These are […]

Installing apps and games on your smartphone or tablet is always a lot of fun. However, in a rush to obtain the latest resources or enjoy the hottest game, most users don’t pay much attention to a “detail” that can make all the difference: the permissions requested by that application. Many internet users don’t even […]

In recent years, practically all coffee shops, restaurants and stores have begun to offer Wi-Fi to clients. However, this benefit also involves certain risks.  As the name suggests, public Wi-Fi networks are those open to the general public. But, contrary to what most people think, these networks may or may not be protected with passwords.  […]

If you google tailgating right now, you may come across a definition that will confuse you as to why we’re discussing the term. It is usually used to refer to the dangerous act of driving your car too close behind another vehicle, which is a common strategy for transposing automatic toll gates, for example. However, […]

Explaining the term “fake news” is probably unnecessary — it has been around for some time now and has even become a topic of discussion on social networks and in barroom conversations. Basically, we are referring to fake news that is disseminated on the Internet with the aim of spreading disinformation and influencing citizens on […]

Imagine you are attending an online work meeting and your computer — or smartphone — is repeatedly notifying you of a new available update. Has this ever happened to you? These update notifications are almost always ignored by users because they often take time to update the devices. Although at first we may be hesitant […]

Do you remember when the term BYOD took over the headlines and soon became a buzzword in the corporate setting? This term is an acronym for “Bring Your Own Device”, a concept created by Intel in 2009. That year, the company began to allow its employees to bring their own smartphones, tablets, and even laptops […]

It is practically impossible, over the last few years, that you’ve never come across a single QR Code at some point in your life. We are talking about those two-dimensional square images, formed by large cubes at three of the corners with a series of smaller squares inside. When read by a smartphone, they can […]

You’ve certainly heard — or read somewhere — about NFC technology, but not everyone knows exactly what it is or how it works. First of all, this may come as a surprise to many: although it has only become popular in Brazil in recent years, the NFC standard (an acronym for Near-Field Communications) is not […]