April 18, 2024

Month: April 2021

Hackers

How to protect yourself from a scam?

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The Internet is deeply ingrained in our lives. And how to deny how nice, simple and comfortable it makes our daily tasks. 

The big issue is that not only do you make businesses online, lots of criminals have also chosen the online land to settle on and get money through scams.

Scams have different disguises, and there are not only individuals but groups operating a wide variety of frauds. Their target? Everybody. Some look for big fishes. Others don’t mind cheating or extorting small businesses or regular users.

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Internet

What is ICANN?

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ICANN is short of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It is a non-profit organization that manages and maintains different databases related to namespaces and number spaces on the Internet.

In really short: ICANN coordinates the use of domain names and IP addresses so that the Internet, as we know it, can function without conflicts. Thanks to it, you can’t have two people who have the same domain name or two computers with the same IP address.

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Protocols

What is IPv6 used for?

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So, you want to know when and why should you use IPv6? You came to the right place. Let’s see why is better and for what to use it.

What is IPv6?

IPv6 is the 6th version of the IP, the internet protocol. The IPs are a combination of rules the device must follow in order to send and receive data from a host to the destination. We need to have identifiable hosts with their locations – IP addresses and a route for the communication. 

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