You can avoid social media identity theft by setting strict privacy settings, securing your social media accounts with strong passwords, vetting every friend and follower request, keeping an eye out for phishing attempts and limiting what you share on social media. With almost every person having at least one social media account, cybercriminals are leveraging this by targeting these accounts to carry out various cyber attacks, including identity theft.

In the digital era, the importance of secure identification systems cannot be overstated. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has significantly enhanced the security and convenience of Aadhaar, a pivotal identity document for residents of India, by introducing a new Aadhaar card QR code. This QR Code, embedded in Aadhaar print-letters and e-Aadhaar documents, is a quantum leap in ensuring the safety and authenticity of Aadhaar information.

We began working on Teleport with a vision to make trusted computing a reality for everyone, even for people without large budgets. That’s why we open sourced Teleport in 2015. Achieving this lofty goal takes a lot of work, which in turn requires capital. That is why we founded Teleport as a company and started to offer premium features required by enterprises. Thus, we must strike a delicate balance between benefiting the community and succeeding as a business.

Passkeys have been publicly available for roughly a year. Engineered for security and phishing protection, this new form of passwordless authentication is still in the headlines — now under scrutiny.