5-minute digital safety power-ups
5-minute digital safety power-ups

5-minute digital safety power-ups

Valuable digital safety knowledge and good practices in short but informative articles. Protect your most valuable crypto and digital assets from hacks, scams, and accidents.


Find Out How Invisible Tracking Pixels Invade Your Privacy

16 Oct 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Crypto Safety First

You need to know that it is standard practice to use invisible tracking pixels in emails. And, also, you need to be aware that most probably every day you receive many emails that contain tracking pixels. Tracking Pixels: To What Extent Is Your Priva...

Can You Guess How Many People Pay Crypto Taxes?

8 Oct 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Crypto Safety First

Swedish crypto tax firm Divly has released a report that estimates that only 0.53% of global crypto investors have paid crypto taxes in 2022. Even in countries with relatively higher tax compliance rates in the crypto space, such as Finland and Austr...

Wallet Guard Extension - How To Proactively Secure Your Crypto Wallet

7 Oct 2023 5 minute read 3 comments Crypto Safety First

Would it not be great to get a warning that alerts us that we are about to sign a malicious crypto transaction? Well, we are in luck...Wallet Guard is an open-source browser extension that detects wallet drainers before they interact with your crypto...

The O.MG Cable: A Hacker's Weapon in Plain Sight

5 Oct 2023 5 minute read 6 comments Crypto Safety First

O.MG cables are used by Cybersecurity Red Teams, enthusiasts, coders, and students to emulate attacks on mobile phones. Cybersecurity Red Teams are white-hat hackers that will attack an organization’s network in order to identify weaknesses and poten...

NFT Delegation - How to Protect Your NFTs from Malicious Smart Contract Approvals

2 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

Anyone who has a dear or valuable NFT has a very similar concern: We don't want to lose our NFTs to a malicious contract approval or a wallet hack. So, by reason, any valuable NFT should be safely stored in a cold wallet. But, in some situations, we...

How Often Do People Reuse Passwords: Are You at Risk?

23 Sep 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Crypto Safety First

Based on an online security survey conducted by Google among individuals aged 16 to 50, these are the results in password usage that have emerged: 52% of participants, declared to reusing the same password for multiple accounts, although not for al...

Mark Cuban 870K USD Hot Wallet Hack -Could Have Been Prevented?

20 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

Mark Cuban is an American entrepreneur, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA. As well as an affluent cryptocurrency investor. But, even someone with such a curriculum was not able to prevent falling for a cryptocurrency hot wallet hack, an...

Blockchain Capital Bart Stephens SIM SWAP Hack - Could Had Been Prevented?

18 Sep 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Crypto Safety First

Bart Stephens, cofounder and managing partner of crypto fund Blockchain Capital was the victim of a SIM SWAP hack. And, the consequences for him are as follows: 6.4 million US dollars worth of Bitcoin, Ether, and other cryptocurrencies were taken fr...

Is Your Email Address, And Password, On The Dark Web?

13 Sep 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Crypto Safety First

Have you ever checked how much of your personal information has already been sold to the best bidder? From company hacks to website data breaches, there are several ways your personal information could have been leaked and made available for sale. T...

A Costly Mistake - Why Protecting Your Seed Phrase and Private Keys Matters

11 Sep 2023 2 minute read 3 comments Crypto Safety First

This video is based on the real story of a YouTuber who accidentally displayed his Metamaks wallet seed phrase and private keys during a lifestream. And how one of the viewers took advantage to restore the wallets and transfer the crypto assets to hi...