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Black Friday Scams: Shop Safely with These Tips

Black Friday is just around the corner and here’s how you can protect yourself from Black Friday Scams. All the shopaholics around...

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How To

Identifying And Avoiding Tech Support Scams

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), it received nearly 11,000 tech support related complaints in the year 2017. Tech support...

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Geek

Facebook to Help Users Detect if Someone is Impersonating their Profiles

Facebook’s team is currently working on a brand new tool aimed at reducing the incidences of harassment on the social network by...

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Surveillance

The Curious Case of Creepy @FFD8FFDB Twitter Bot Spying and Posting Images

A Twitter bot @FFD8FFDB has been found posting cam images on the Internet and it’s creepy. A while ago we reported about a...

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Geek

Social Experiment: What Happens When Your Child Falls for Fake Social Media Profiles

Most of us have heard of ‘stranger danger’ and most of us have been educated as children or have educated children about...

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Geek

Facebook Phishing Scam, ’17 dead in a roller coaster accident’

We just got to know that a new phishing scam has started to make rounds on the popular social media network, Facebook....

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Cyber Crime

Scammers Targeting Facebook Users with Airline Scams

Scammers have become amusingly very popular in this day and age — They are the reason why holiday makers won’t keep their...

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Cyber Events

DDoS Ransom Notes, to Honor or Not to Honor?

In the wake of cyber crimes, a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is something to be on the look-out for. Lately,...

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Data Security

New Spam Campaign Spreading Dridex Banking Malware

The latest spam campaign is equipped with the Dridex banking malware and targeting company accountants through deceptive emails. According to Heimdal Security,...

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Cyber Crime

Women More Vulnerable to Phishing Scams: This Lady Lost Her Life Savings

Studies show women are more vulnerable to phishing scams than men and same has happened with Vivian Gabb who told media how she...

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Cyber Crime

New Facebook Phishing Scam Posts Links on Friends Timeline

Facebook timelines nowadays are displaying a new phishing scam message with the title “Here’s the Link HeHe.” The text of this scam...

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Cyber Crime

Facebook users hit with See ‘What Happens to this Pregnant Lady’ video scam

Facebook’s astonishing “Video Scam” – ‘See What Happens to this Pregnant Lady’ inappropriately misusing “shock element” for users. A post appeared recently...