The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The advice many survivors like Lorraine receive when they look for help is to leave their online life behind and delete themselves from the internet entirely. For Lorraine, deleting herself from the internet didn’t feel like a solution. “It We can develop intentional boundaries on the internet, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. “We

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While many people might think of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups when it comes to infiltrating social media platforms, there’s actually a global network of hackers participating in an underground economy where things like Facebook and Instagram accounts are commodities. Exactly how hackers go after legitimate accounts varies.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) tallied over $1.8 Reconnaissance - BEC actors perform reconnaissance on potential victims, compiling lists of potential targets, visiting company websites, social media, and networking websites. Should you have a BEC Incident Response Plan?

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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.” At the time, McLeod said all this was meant to make the experience less anonymous and more like being on a social network than a dating app. None of this is exactly high praise.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

You decide for yourself after reading about this case—which features a right wing social media site CEO and the hack of some 40 million posts; a message from former President Trump that he never actually sent; and a transgender hacktivist on a social justice quest who claims she didn't hack anything in this case.

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