Category: Social Media
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Tuesday Tip: 3 Ways to Limit Facebook Data Usage | CREDO Mobile Blog
Do you know how much data you use during normal Facebook usage? Credo has 3 smart and common sense tips for limiting your data usage, especially if you’re not on an unlimited or large data plan. Normal use of the Facebook app—browsing your News Feed and looking at photos—consumes about 1.5MB per minute. Watching videos…
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Spammers using Facebook Messenger to Spread Locky Ransomware
One more thing to worry about… If you came across any Facebook Message with an image file (exactly .SVG file format) send by any of your Facebook friends, just avoid clicking it. An ongoing Facebook spam campaign is spreading malware downloader among Facebook users by taking advantage of innocent-looking SVG image file to infect computers.…
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Ultimate Social Media Shortcuts Cheat Sheet — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Google+
This comes complete with a handy, downloadable Cheat Sheet for the major social media applications. Nice to have on hand! Keyboard shortcuts come in handy when we have to accomplish tasks real quick. Here is an ultimate cheat sheet which includes social media keyboard shortcuts for websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Source: Ultimate Social…
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Top Phishing Scams on Social Media
For older people just getting into technology, the “imposter customer care” scam seems to be the most prevalent. So many have casually remarked to me how the “nice man on the phone fixed all their computer problems.” The worst thing is that they actually paid for the service, a double pay day for the scammers.…
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Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users | By Peter Kafka
Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users | By Peter Kafka If you’re still seeing ads in twitter apparently you’re a loser! Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. But not all of its users: For the past few months, the social media company has stopped displaying…
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Hacking your head: How cyber criminals use social engineering | Malwarebytes/Wendy Zamora
Hacking your head: How cyber criminals use social engineering Social engineering is nothing new. It’s a tool of psychological manipulation that’s been used since the dawn of man. Why? To influence people into taking action that might not be in their best interest. Sometimes it’s fairly harmless, like a child sweet-talking his mom in order…
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Facebook “Page Disabled” Phish Wants your Card Details | Malwarebytes UnPacked/Christopher Boyd
Facebook “Page Disabled” Phish Wants your Card Details — Targets Page Admins Fake Facebook Security pages are quite a common sight, and there’s a “Your page will be disabled unless…” scam in circulation at the moment on random Facebook comment sections which you should steer clear of. The scam begins with a message like this,…
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WhatsApp Web Vulnerability Puts 200 Million Users at Risk
A significant WhatsApp Web vulnerability that put hundreds of millions of users and computers at risk of malware has been patched thanks to sec-researchers. Source: WhatsApp Web Vulnerability Puts 200 Million Users at Risk
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Top 5 Facebook Scams That You Should Be Aware Of
Facebook has about 1.4 billion users making it the most active social media site for the hackers. Here’s a list of Top 5 Facebook scams. Source: Top 5 Facebook Scams That You Should Be Aware Of