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The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

Vox

He now works as a threat hunter at the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) in Vietnam, in addition to serving as the co-founder of Chống Lừa Đảo, an anti-scam nonprofit. From there, the hackers can change passwords and add security keys or two-factor authentication, and usually, they proceed to commit a crime.

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Artists are playing takedown whack-a-mole to fight counterfeit merch

The Verge

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. They thought they were buying the authentic Alternate Histories calendars, rather than the knockoffs. Photo: Matt Buchholz. Image: Matt Buchholz.

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Online daters love to hate on Hinge. 10 years in, it’s more popular than ever.

Vox

It has reached the top of the app download charts in several European markets, where it launched more recently. When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” None of this is exactly high praise.