Results for 'social media'
Facebook scams: Bad ads, bogus grants, and fake tickets lurk on social media giant
November 11, 2019 - We recently highlighted new steps Instagram is taking to try and clamp down on scammers sending fake messages on their platform....
Governments increasingly eye social media meltdown
May 22, 2019 - These are trying times for social networks, with endless reports of harassment and abuse not being tackled and many users leaving...
Ellen DeGeneres giveaway scam spreading on social media
April 15, 2019 - Scammers are pushing multiple fake Facebook profiles of Ellen DeGeneres, popular US TV show host and producer, with the goal of...
Labs survey finds privacy concerns, distrust of social media rampant with all age groups
March 5, 2019 - Before Cambridge Analytica made Facebook an unwilling accomplice to a scandal by appropriating and misusing more than 50 million users’ data, the...
Should you delete yourself from social media?
February 14, 2019 - You’re feeling like you’ve had enough. All the recent news—from Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica snafu to various abuses of Twitter vulnerabilities—has you...
Social media: A treasure trove of spam and scams
June 5, 2018 - There are two kinds of spam associated with social media. There are spam ads that actually live on social media, and...
Be wary of Mega Millions winner “giveaway” on social media
January 16, 2018 - I don’t do lotteries, but if I did, I’d probably never, ever win in a million years. That’s not a problem...
Terdot Trojan likes social media
November 22, 2017 - We usually advise people that have fallen victim to banker Trojans to change all their passwords, especially the ones that are...
Please stop posting your X-rays to social media
June 9, 2017 - Social media is fun. Posting pictures and sharing them with friends is a great technology. But please, we beg you, stop...
How do I secure my social media profile?
February 23, 2017 - Many of us are all too aware of the uptick in news stories about phishes, online scams, and customer data breaches. Social...
