After a preliminary investigation, Twitter said it believed the incident was “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools”.
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Bitcoin. Say that word and those friends who’ve come into contact with your one acquaintance who doesn’t shut up about…
It seems that a few months cannot pass without some company or another reporting that login data has been stolen…
Listen, no-one wants to keep around an app that’s going to harvest all your personal data. That’s just not cool,…
The stunning successes of artificial intelligence would not have happened without the availability of massive amounts of data, whether its…
A Reddit user and software engineer went ahead and reverse-engineered TikTok to see what makes it tick (heh). And what he found is very worrying, and somewhat expected, knowing what information apps and social platforms know about their users. But still worrying.
Honestly, we don’t know what the world would have done if we didn’t have the internet during this pandemic. Virtual…
Hackers are everywhere! From a faceless internet thug nestled comfortably behind the greasy, thumb-printed screen they should have thrown out…
Phishing, smishing (SMS phishing) and vishing (voice phishing) attacks are all on the rise. Our tendency to click on infected emails has increased with the correspondent increase in email traffic — a two-fold impact on the severity of the threat environment.
Here are some tricks you can use to avoid giving online platforms your personal information. Some ways to limit your exposure include using “alternative facts”, using guest check-out options, and a burner email.