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Instagram verification services: What are the dangers?

May 24, 2022 - Instagram, like other social platforms, has a verification system for high profile accounts. A verified badge means Instagram has confirmed that the...

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How Instagram scammers talk users out of their accounts

May 6, 2022 - If you’ve dealt with a scammer, you’ll know that making up stories is their bread and butter. Think about it: Just...

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Steer clear of these Instagram “Get rich with Bitcoin” scams

May 6, 2022 - I don’t know about you, but I open Instagram to look at cool photos of pets, not to make a fortune...

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Warning! Instagram Stories hides a scam in plain sight

April 29, 2022 - When someone finds their social media account compromised, they first think about letting their followers know. And they do. They warn...

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URI spoofing flaw could phish WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, and iMessage users

March 31, 2022 - Update: We were informed by Sick Codes that, although Signal already has a fix for this URI flaw here, it hasn’t...

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Beware of this bogus (and phishy) “Instagram Support” email

March 18, 2022 - Recently, a fake Instagram email successfully bypassed Google’s email filters and made it into hundreds of employee inboxes used by a...

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Meta blocks Russia-Ukraine disinformation campaigns on Facebook, Instagram

March 2, 2022 - Meta says it has detected and removed two disinformation campaigns regarding the current Russia-Ukraine war. These campaigns, it says, were run...

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Instagram’s memorialize feature abused to memorialize…Instagram’s boss

November 15, 2021 - The mechanisms for memorialising the social network accounts of people who’ve died haven’t really suffered a lot of scrutiny up until...

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Facebook shoots own foot, hits Instagram and WhatsApp too

October 5, 2021 - Mark Zuckerberg was left counting the personal cost of bad PR yesterday (about $6 billion, according to Bloomberg) on a day...

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Instagram Kids put on hold

September 29, 2021 - Instagram has announced it is pausing the development of its newest brainchild, Instagram Kids—a version of Instagram aimed at 10-12-year-olds, or...

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