OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma County republicans’ group claims their Facebook page and website may have been hacked. On Sunday, a post was shared on the Oklahoma County Republicans’ Facebook page seemingly comparing Democrats to Nazis. The original post was first shared by another page ‘Direct to the People,’ listing…
Stripped-back online profiles gives buyers access to ready-made friends lists to contact. Experts fear the profiles are being bought by people using them to push hate speech and politically motivated messages. HACKED accounts of UK Facebook and Twitter users are being flogged online for as little as £1. The stripped-back…
Social networking giant Facebook has been embroiled in the recent Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The company has been slapped with lawsuits and many of the popular brands such as Tesla, Playboy and other have deactivated their respective Facebook accounts. The company is now taking measures to mend the damage done…
Facebook functions like a family — it knows a lot about you, you’re constantly interacting. Google is more like your neighborhood — it’s there when you need it, but you don’t need it every day.” Tara Clarke, associate editor at Money Morning was explaining the relationship between new media and…
Logging into third party apps with social media accounts is convenient but now we know that there is a real risk of the data being misused by the app developer With data on Facebook and other social media sites vulnerable to third-party access without user consent, users are now left…
Facebook is addressing concerns regarding its role in a personal information scandal involving 50 million Americans and their online information. Research firm Cambridge Analytica is accused of giving out the information accessed in 2013 from 300,000 Facebook users who took an online quiz. The total number of people affected could…
The Indian Army on Sunday released a video accusing Chinese hackers of targeting users in India via WhatsApp. The video, urging people to use the social messenger application safely, comes about four months after the Army had warned soldiers posted along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) against using a…
A small business owner is fighting Bank of America after he said his account was hacked into, costing him about $53,000. A small business owner is fighting Bank of America after he said his account was hacked into, costing him about $53,000. “It is definitely not my fault that this…
Concerning the FBI’s investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 U.S. election, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said social media companies should be fined if they can’t get rid of bots on their platforms. “They have brilliant people working there,” Klobuchar said on NBC’s Meet the Press. “They’ve got to put…
On Facebook, Rita, Alona and Christina appeared to be just like the millions of other U.S citizens sharing their lives with the world. They discussed family outings, shared emojis and commented on each other’s photographs. In reality, the three accounts were part of a highly-targeted cybercrime operation, used to spread…
“I know quizzes on social media are pretty popular, but I’ve heard that some could be scams. How can I tell if a quiz is safe or not?” With so much on the internet these days it’s tricky to tell which links are trying to lure you into a scam…
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – If you are asked to play one of those “get to know you better” games on Facebook — watch out. Scammers might be trying to trick you into giving up answers to common online security questions. Even if you are not fooled into playing one of their…
New Hampshire police say they’ve arrested a man accused of hacking into the Snapchat accounts of teenage girls. Windham police say the victims told them their private photos were posted online while they thought they would have disappeared from the phone application. WMUR-TV reports a 21-year-old man hacked into the…
Portrayals of hackers in popular culture are inaccurate. We imagine individuals bent over computers, rapidly typing in a mortal battle with opposing hackers. The struggle goes back and forth, until finally, one side wins — breaching their opponent’s encryption, downloading terabytes of secrets, and stealing away triumphant. This might make…
There are more than two billion social media users worldwide, representing a global rate of around 28% of total digital users. In India, the documented number of social media users approximate to 168 million users in 2016. Social networking already accounts for 28 percent of all media time spent online,…
Who doesn’t know about the dominance of social bots on the internet during the United States Mid-term Elections 2010, and of course the United States Presidential Elections 2016. According to the estimates, approximately 14 pc of the users active on Twitter during the presidential election discussions were bots, which were…
The burger chain CaliBurger on Tuesday began testing a facial recognition kiosk in its Pasadena, California, branch that can recognize customers who set up loyalty accounts. The kiosk allows select customers to access their accounts without any passcodes or card swipes and displays their order histories once the facial scan…
Hackers are taking advantage of the fact that most people remember their Facebook login tied to the fact that during the holidays nobody wants to lose access to their primary social media outlet as a way to convince their victims to sign on to a malicious landing page that will…
Facebook has updated its security feature, allowing users to avoid hacking and other malicious attempts to use others profiles or pages. One such feature is in Settings under the Security and Login option. In the advanced settings, one can find the option to see recent emails from Facebook. It is…
Facebook on Tuesday announced a new facial recognition tool that can spot you even when you haven’t been tagged – handy when some identity thief goes and puts up an account with your photo. It also introduced a way for the visually impaired to know more about who’s in the…
