Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
The popular travel website Orbitz has just announced a major security breach that allowed hackers to steal the personal and financial information on almost 900,000 customers.
The data theft affects virtually all Orbitz customers who used the site to book a trip in 2016 and most of 2017.
This is the customer information that was stolen: [Read more…]
A popular recurring Facebook hoax has started making the rounds again, and it has lots of Facebook users scrambling to share it with their friends.
It’s the old “Facebook No Swearing Campaign” hoax, and it’s filling up newsfeeds right and left.
In a nutshell, the hoax consists of an image stating that Facebook will shut down the accounts of any users who use profanity in their posts starting on April 1, 2018.
The message also states that this policy is being implemented due to a new “law” issued by Facebook’s legal department.
This is what the current iteration of the hoax message looks like: [Read more…]
Unless you were living on another planet during the 2016 election cycle you probably know that fake Russian Facebook pages posted tons of links to fake news stories about the candidates.
What you night not have realized at the time is any “Likes” and “Shares” you might have made on those posts were helping spread “fake news”.
This isn’t an accusation in any way. As we all know, it was very easy to get taken in by those sham pages. That being said, I thought you might be interested in knowing for sure whether you interacted with any of them.
Luckily, it’s very easy to find out if you interacted with any of those infamous fake Russian Facebook pages. Here’s how: [Read more…]
As I’m sure you know, Facebook is a favorite playground for scammers and hoaxers thanks to it’s massive 2 billion+ person worldwide user base.
I despise scams and hoaxes in general, but the ones that really bother me the most are the ones that target Christians.
A while back I wrote a post about the insidious “Amen scam” that scammers use to profit off the good will of Christians.
That scam never ends because it’s so lucrative for the scammers, but others seem to come and go as the seasons change. [Read more…]
As you probably know by now, Like and Share Farming is a popular method used by scammers to quickly build successful Facebook pages that they can use to scam other Facebook users.
In a nutshell, the scammer uses innocent-looking (and often heart-tugging) posts to attract thousands of “Likes” and “Shares” to a new page to make it “popular” among the Facebook community.
Well, there’s a rather insidious form of “Like and Share Farming” taking place right now, and it’s targeting Christians.
These posts are simply another variation of the “Feel Good Posts” that I have written about in the past.
The current scam typically works something like this… [Read more…]