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The internet is an integral tool for modern life. It allows people to connect, store enormous amounts of data, and conduct the business of daily life from the comfort of home. The internet provides a lot of good to the world — but for inexperienced users, it can also present danger. Below are some tips […]
Teens can now report their explicit content through a tool that can be termed as a positive initiative against revenge and child abuse content. An online tool has been developed to help those young people who want to remove their nude images, whether or not they have been shared/circulated online. Dubbed Report Remove; the tool […]
Parents should know if their under 18 child has these apps on their smartphone – No underage child should use these apps. Apart from being a great invention, smartphones are also taken as a most apt tool for killing time. Kids between the age of 11-19 spend 90 percent of their times on their cell […]
Bella Throne will not be bullied by cybercriminals. Stealing private photographs of celebrities and threatening to post them online unless they give in to the demands of the hacker has become a common norm among cybercriminals for making quick bucks. But, not all the celebs could be intimidated and Bella Thorne is one of them. […]
Backpage was once the second largest classified advertising site after Craigslist. The infamous classified advertising website Backpage along with its affiliate domains have been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Those visiting the website right now can see a banner notice uploaded by the United States government. The notice that is being currently displayed on […]
Grindr shared personal, HIV and geolocation-related data with two of its third-party contractors without informing users. As a way to make relationships safer, the gay flirting application Grindr allows users to share information about whether or not they are infected with HIV and the date of the last test. This data is extremely sensitive and private […]
Birmingham Crown Court (UK) has jailed a dark web pedophile for 32 years in prison. Matthew Falder, a 29-year-old former geophysics lecturer at the University of Birmingham was arrested in June 2017 from the university campus as a result of a huge and extensive four-year operation conducted by law enforcement authorities including British Police, Europol, FBI and UK’s […]
An ex-Kentucky high school principal Stephen Kyle Goodlett has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for uploading nude pictures of a student and sending it to a pornography trading site in Russia called anon-ib or anonymous image board. The pictures were stolen from a confiscated mobile phone that was in the custody of […]
Coming home to gaming on your favorite computer may be a pastime you always look forward to, but how do you make sure you, and your loved ones, are safe when gaming online? A vast variety of games now allows players to mix with real-life players across the globe on their servers, but keeping yourself […]
Law enforcement authorities in Germany have shut down a major Dark Web child pornography website known as “Elysium.” The website which had around 87,000 members was a popular platform for people to exchange explicit images of children displaying physical and sexual abuse including toddlers. Screenshot from the website when it was online According to German federal police, Elysium […]
A group of hacktivists connected to the online hacktivist group Anonymous is urging teens to quit taking part in a sinister game called Blue Whale Challenge. Since last year, this game has gained popularity in Russia and as a result, 130 teens have reportedly committed suicide.. (Editors note: HackRead has so far been unable to […]
Twitter account of the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals Martin Shkreli aka pharma bro has been suspended by Twitter after a series of tweets harassing Lauren Duca, an American freelance writer & reporter. It all started when Shkreli started tagging Duca in his tweets and even changed his bio to “I have a small crush […]
Nigerian news website Politics Nigeria has reported that two Indian sisters hailing from Toronto, Canada have been detained in Lagos, Nigeria, for their alleged involvement in cyber-bullying and extortion of a Nigerian billionaire along with 274 others. The sisters Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo have quite a heavy following on Instagram; when combined the cumulative total […]
Halifax police forced to re-open investigation in a sexual assault case after Anonymous exposes the identity of the alleged culprit. The online hacktivist collective Anonymous managed to force Halifax Regional Municipality police into reopening the investigation of an alleged sexual assault case involving an 18-year-old girl who was attacked by a fellow student on Halloween […]
Shane Tusch learned about the authenticity of Facebook’s suicide prevention tools the hard way – What started as an attempt to check if the tool really works ended in landing him in a mental health facility for 70 hours. About a few weeks ago a 48-year old Facebook user read about the Facebook’s new tool to […]
A set of tools has been rolled out by Facebook to help prevent suicide thoughts among its users. It is now possible to report Facebook posts that identify someone having suicidal thoughts. The reported posts will be reviewed by a third party and then it will decide whether that user should be consulted and counselled or […]