Google’s free chatting platform Hangouts has become a tool often used for romance scammers operating out of Russia. According to professional Russian private investigators, every day more victims of fraud and scam report they were contacted by someone on Google Hangouts or were convinced to move from an online dating platform to Hangouts. The perks […]
Facebook’s handling of personal data was and continue to be a disgrace. After all, profiting from your private information is their business model. The more you share, the more you information is collected, sold, shared and used to make Facebook a profit, regardless of what you think. The most recent crisis that raised the concerns […]
For many of us, it’s the new normal to meet someone on Facebook or Instagram these days, rather than meeting someone at the park or on the metro. In today’s world, “social” activity is all happening around these platforms. People still go to the park, use public transportation and go out to restaurants, but most […]
There have been millions of victims to the major online data breaches that have been occurring in recent months and recent years. It seems each week there is a new case. Three billion Yahoo users were victims of one of the greatest online hacks in history, which compromised their personal information, emails, etc. Equifax was […]
Not long ago ‘social networks’ were not part of our life or even part of our vocabulary. The social media revolution happened too fast, and too many people have not been able to catch up and fully understand the risks implied in participating in these. The truth is that a great majority of users do […]
If you ever thought that getting ripped off by your Russian online date or finding out that they were not who they claimed to be was a shock, prepare yourself for the new and improved scams! Internet criminals are getting more creative all the time, and finding new ways to drain your bank account is […]