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How to spot online dating scam and its never ending fakery

Dating can be hard, especially when you’re doing it online. Swiping right can always give you that little niggle in the back of your head, “are they who they say they are?” We’ve all heard the horror stories, but then again there are plenty of tales of success and the number of Tinder marriages is […]

Student uses Snapchat’s gender filter to bust pervert cop

The cop thought he was talking to an underage girl but it was a grown-up man using Snapchat’s gender filter. A 20-year old student from California’s San Francisco Bay Area used the much-criticized gender-swapping filter of Snapchat to catch a 40-year old police officer. According to Ethan, who studies in a California college, the cop […]

User Profiles On Dating Apps Like Tinder Are Being Auctioned For Millions

Creating a dating profile is pretty easy. You head over to the profile section of an app and start filling every single detail about yourself. That includes usernames, e-mail addresses, sexual orientation, interests, professions, thorough physical characteristics, personality traits and much more. For the sake of looking genuine, you even post up some of your […]

Vulnerabilities affect Shopify, Tinder and many other sites

The flaw was found while experts analyzed the user-side security of dating apps A team of forensic experts set out to conduct research on user-side security in dating applications, and one of the main objectives was Tinder’s mobile application. After performing the initial recognition steps, a Tinder domain with multiple user-side security issues was found, […]

Facebook Scans Your Phonebook To Guess Who You Are Dating Online

Short Byte: In a bizarre incident, Facebook users are reportedly seeing increasing friend suggestions of the people they have dated before through Tinder. Is it six-degree separation or mere intrusion? In the 21st century, striving for privacy is a mind-numbing struggle. As much as fossBytes along with several international privacy and security-concerned platforms has stressed […]