Tag: DigitalSafety
Facebook profile cloning – when your life gets weaponised
Facebook cloning scams are continuing to rise. They are turning ordinary profiles and family photos into tools for fraud and social engineering. Have you ever wondered what criminals can do with a convincing copy of your life? If not, you should. Criminals can easily step inside your Facebook world and create a cloned profile using your family, friends, adventures and experiences.
Data Privacy Day – how loyalty programmes track your data
International Data Privacy Day on 28 January usually brings a wave of advice about passwords and privacy settings. Most of us tune it out. Instead, we fall back on a comfortable but dangerous cop-out. We say, “I am boring. I have nothing to hide”. This reflex often defines how people approach Data Privacy Day each year. This apathy creates our greatest vulnerability.
