Social media influencers targeted by identity thieves
Social media influencers are attractive targets for identity thefs. Not just for their bank accounts but also to influence their followers
Social media influencers are attractive targets for identity thefs. Not just for their bank accounts but also to influence their followers
Categories: Personal Tags: twitter Tags: x Tags: social media Tags: social network Tags: register Tags: biometric Tags: ID Tags: passport Tags: verify Tags: verification Tags: premium Tags: elon musk We take a look at plans to voluntarily upload identification to X, the site formerly known as Twitter. |
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Categories: Business Tags: upload Tags: download Tags: share Tags: data Tags: intelligence Tags: google Tags: virustotal Tags: social media Tags: sharing Tags: document Tags: file Tags: files We take a look at reports of a document being accidentally shared to the VirusTotal service and potentially exposing names and email addresses in the security and intelligence community. |
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Categories: Business Tags: upload Tags: download Tags: share Tags: data Tags: intelligence Tags: google Tags: virustotal Tags: social media Tags: sharing Tags: document Tags: file Tags: files We take a look at reports of a document being accidentally shared to the VirusTotal service and potentially exposing names and email addresses in the security and intelligence community. |
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Categories: Business Tags: upload Tags: download Tags: share Tags: data Tags: intelligence Tags: google Tags: virustotal Tags: social media Tags: sharing Tags: document Tags: file Tags: files We take a look at reports of a document being accidentally shared to the VirusTotal service and potentially exposing names and email addresses in the security and intelligence community. |
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Categories: Personal Tags: tootroot Tags: mastodon Tags: server Tags: patch Tags: update Tags: CVE Tags: flaw Tags: vulnerability Tags: social media Tags: network Tags: networking We take a look at a collection of issues (now patched) which were affecting Mastodon servers. It’s time to apply the fix for TootRoot. |
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Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: TikTok Tags: social media Tags: data Tags: app Tags: privacy Tags: algorithm TikTok has garnered a ton of media attention about its alleged risks. But is it really that much worse than other social media apps? |
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Categories: News Tags: Doxxers Tags: doxxing Tags: police Tags: social media Tags: extortion Tags: data breach Two individuals have been charged with being members of ViLE, a group of doxxers that even impersonated police officers to obtain personal information about their victims. |
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Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: Social media Tags: privacy Tags: policies Tags: fines Tags: legislation Tags: scraping Tags: advertising Social media platforms are making a lot of money with targeted advertising. To improve the targeting, they want us much of your data as you are willing to give up… |
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Categories: News Tags: flipper zero Tags: fake Tags: scam Tags: phish Tags: portal Tags: social media Tags: twitter Tags: shop Tags: sale Tags: sold out Tags: pentest Tags: pentesting Tags: hardware Tags: enthusiast Tags: technology We take a look at reports of imitation Flipper Zero websites springing up to part unwary consumers from their money. |
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