UPDATE: 4/6/2018 LinkedIn reached out for comment on the article, and we’d like to clarify our position based on their concerns. They…
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What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data
As you may already know, there’s been a security meltdown at Facebook, thanks to a company called Cambridge Analytica and Donald…
“Who visits your Twitter profile” spam app brings week of chaos
Twitter spam has been around forever, and rogue apps asking for installs in return for a cool feature (to be more…
Terdot Trojan likes social media
We usually advise people that have fallen victim to banker Trojans to change all their passwords, especially the ones that are…
Phony WhatsApp used Unicode to slip under Google’s radar
After a troubling week for Google not so long ago, the company is under the spotlight once more for missing another…
Please stop posting your X-rays to social media
Social media is fun. Posting pictures and sharing them with friends is a great technology. But please, we beg you, stop…
An Infosec Spring clean
We’re a month or so into Spring and it may well be time you had a spring clean – ha, ha,…
Mastodon: different social network, additional risks
Mastodon is a social network that’s a few months old and it’s been mentioned on news sites quite a lot recently,…
How do I secure my social media profile?
Many of us are all too aware of the uptick in news stories about phishes, online scams, and customer data breaches. Social…
Verified Twitter accounts compromised, get busy spamming
Update: Twitter only recommends that verified users enable 2FA on their accounts. They do, however, need to have a verified phone…