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All About UPI

UPI stands for Unified Payments Interface. It is a payment mode developed by the National Payments Corporation of India. UPI is a payment system that allows you to transfer money between any two parties. As compared to NEFT, RTGS, and IMPS, UPI is far more well-defined and standardized across banks. This means that you can use UPI to initiate a bank transfer from anywhere in just a few clicks! The benefit of using UPI is that it allows you to pay directly from your bank account. The hassle or need to type in the card or bank details goes away with UPI. You can use UPI to transfer money to your family, friends, or even between your own bank accounts. The much wider use of UPI comes when you have to pay different merchants. mPIN in UPI Another benefit of using UPI is that you can do away with the need to wait for an OTP and enter it to complete the money transfer. The mPIN is a 6-digit passcode that you must enter every time you need to make a transaction. The mPIN is highly val...

How to speed your Windows computer

Many of Us Face the issue of slowing the Computer & it is Irritating. So, to that Problem here are some ways through which you can speed up the Computer. Now you can listen to this article via Spotify click on the player below:    1. Uninstall unnecessary software: Your computer comes preloaded with several applications that many people won’t use but that can eat up system resources. You can usually identify these when you see a pop-up prompting you to update a program you’ve never used before. Remove them from your computer and free up disk space 2. Limit the programs at the startup: Along the same lines, you can also determine which applications run when your PC boots up. Windows 10 has an updated Task Manager that makes it easier to determine what you want running in the background and what you can start on your own. 3. Add more RAM to your PC: In terms of memory usage, Windows 10 & 11 uses less RAM than previous versions, but increasing RAM memory ...

Zero-day vulnerability: What it is, and how it works

A zero-day exploit is when hackers take advantage of a software security flaw to perform a cyberattack. And that security flaw is only known to hackers, meaning. Software developers have no clue about its existence and have no patch to fix it. This is why, when a zero-day attack is detected, it needs to be mitigated immediately. In other words, there are “zero days” to fix vulnerability because it’s already been exploited. Here, we’re zeroing in on the zero-day concept, including just what is a zero-day exploit, and how to avoid them. 1. Zero-day definitions: What is zero-day? The term “zero-day” refers to a newly discovered software vulnerability and the fact that developers have zero days to fix the problem because it has been — and has the potential to be — exploited by hackers. Sometimes written as 0-day, zero-day definitions run the gamut: A zero-day vulnerability , also known as a zero-day threat, is...