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Scam alert: Did you recently cross the US/Canada border? If so, your identity could be at risk of being stolen.

Posted on June 12, 2019

Have you recently crossed the international border between the United States and Canada?

If so, there’s a chance that hackers could now be in possession of photos of your face and your car’s license plate.

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agency has just announced that one of the contractors that supplies facial recognition cameras for use at border crossings has been hacked, and the hack resulted in about 100,000 border-crossers having their photos and license plate numbers stolen.

In case you’re wondering what mischief the hackers can do with that very limited amount of information, the answer is a lot.

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Scam alert: Some of the most popular iPhone apps send your personal info to third-parties!

Posted on May 31, 2019

Apple’s iPhones and their other iOS-based devices have long had a stellar reputation for carefully guarding the user data contained on those devices.

However, the results of a new study could easily rip that stellar reputation to threads.

According to this recent article by Washington Post Technology Columnist Geoffrey Fowler, the study found that iPhones leak personal information like a sieve via their installed apps, sometimes in direct contradiction of the apps’ own stated privacy policies.

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Scam alert: WhatsApp security flaw allow hackers to install malware on your phone just by calling it!

Posted on May 15, 2019

Do you use the ultra-popular WhatsApp instant messaging app on your mobile phone?

If so, a newly-discovered security flaw enables hackers to install a very dangerous piece of malware known as “Pegasus” onto your phone simply by dialing your phone number!

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Scam alert: Beware the dangerous ‘Nasty List’ phishing scam on Instagram!

Posted on April 22, 2019

As you surely know by now, scammers and hackers are always working overtime to take advantage of innocent Facebook users.

Unfortunately, scammers are quite active on other social media sites as well.

Right now there’s a very dangerous phishing scam being spread via instant messages on Instagram.

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Q&A: I was kicked out of my own Facebook group. How can I regain control of it?

Posted on January 24, 2019

Question from Daniel: I’m in desperate need of your help with recovering a Facebook group that was stolen from me.

Back in 2015 I started a group about camping. I worked real hard at promoting the group and over time it grew to over 32,000 members.

I used this group to sell camping gear that I would ship directly to the customers from my brick and mortar store.

About 7 months ago I was approached by a woman who runs a fitness website asking if we could cross-promote each other’s products in our two groups.

I agreed and granted her admin access to my group and she reciprocated by granting me admin access to her group.

Her group only has about 12,000 members but I was making several sales a week from my posts in there.

All was well until this morning when I discovered that I’m no longer a member of either group.

I tried logging in with my email address and password and neither group will accept them.

It appears that this person has hijacked my group and kicked me completely out of it. Can you tell me what I need to do in order to regain control of it?

I reported the theft to Facebook but so far I haven’t heard anything back from them.

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