Your friends aren’t the only ones checking out your beach photos on Instagram — so are the thieves who are plotting a break-in while you’re away. A recent survey by Assurant, a provider of property-casualty insurance coverage, found that close to 40 percent of renters posted about their escapades while they were still out of town. The insurer polled 1,000 renters. “It’s not their intention to announce that the apartment is vacant, but wait until you get home and reduce the risk of the wrong person finding out that you’re away,” said Steve Hein, senior vice president of multifamily housing…
Author: Loknath Das
Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal in March was just the tip of the social-media iceberg, as malware, hacks and basic privacy concerns continue to increase on social-media platforms. Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell talks with Zack Allen, ZeroFOX’s manager of threat operations, about the threats presented by the broader social-media landscape and the growing issue of malicious content being spread across networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. source:-threatpost
Are you anxious about expressing your political views online? If so, you are not alone. Australians are more worried about this than citizens in many other countries. According to new research, almost half of Australians are worried about what their friends, family and colleagues will think of them if they express their political views on social media. This is an important contribution to understanding the changing nature of the Australian public sphere and the way citizens moderate their behaviour in different media settings. The finding is contained in the latest Digital News Report: Australia 2018, released by the University of Canberra today. The…
The rumours circulated through the hills of northeastern India on Facebook and Whatsapp. There were photos of dismembered corpses in some messages, and of an injured child lying in the street. The messages said hundreds of people, sometimes disguised as beggars, were stalking the towns and villages of India’s Assam state, slipping into houses at night. One message said the outsiders were criminals. Another said they’d come from the poor, nearby state of Bihar. All said the gangs had one goal: kidnapping children. “Be aware, people of Assam!” one message read. There was no truth to the rumours, police say,…
Social activists and dog lovers vented their anger on social media over the insensitivity of construction workers after a video purportedly showed they buried a dog alive under bitumen while laying a road in the Taj city Agra. The barrage of angry comments prompted Agra’s Sadar police department to register an FIR against unknown persons. The SHO said they were trying to identify the accused. A fresh layer of coal tar was being laid on the road from Phool Sayyed crossing towards the Circuit House and the Taj Mahal. A dog was sleeping on one side of the road. Instead…
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said that social media has brought the entire world on one stage. “Social media has helped to realise the concept of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’. It has brought the entire world on one stage,” Mr Adityanath said while addressing a two-day seminar on social media in Lucknow on Tuesday. “Through social media, the vision of the people has opened up towards development,” he added. Along with Adityanath, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Sidharth Nath Singh, Shrikant Sharma and other state ministers like Neelkanth Tiwari, Surya Pratap Shahi, Suresh Khanna were also present at the…
FOR ALMOST AS long as the internet has existed, so too have pro-eating disorder communities: blogs, groups, forums, and social media profiles where users share stories and photos related to disordered eating and body image. Some members simply want a judgment-free place to express their feelings about a complicated illness, but others promote more dangerous behavior, like encouraging extreme diets or dissuading people from getting help. And as with other kinds of harmful content on the internet, platforms hosting pro-ED communities have long struggled with how to moderate them. In 2001, Yahoo removed more than 100 pro-ED sites from its servers, saying they violated its…
-Three men were arrested for illegally charging customers to play copyrighted video games on home-use consoles such as the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch at “game bars” on June 13, Kyoto prefectural police said. The men were arrested on suspicion of violating the Copyright Law, specifically in regard to screening rights. All three have admitted to the charges, according to police. The suspects are Yuki Nishio, 32, owner of “Game Bar Clantz” in Kyoto’s Nakagyo Ward, his unnamed brother who manages the business, and Ryo Koishima, 32, owner of “Amusement Bar Colorful” in Shimogyo Ward. In April, the three are…
WHILE YOU’RE OGLING all the new games at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this week, you might want to take a look at these old ones, too. Rivals Sony and Microsoft are each holding massive game and console sales this week, presumably in a bid to outdo each other and gain momentum. There are even a few Nintendo game deals going on. Details on each E3 week game and console deal are below, along with a few particularly good game deals we found. PRE-ORDER NEW E3 GAMES Amazon has a roundup of big E3 games that you can pre-order now. Some of the…
We already have a contender for the best game of E3 2018 as Microsoft announced that Forza Horizon 4 will be releasing on Xbox and Windows 10 PC on October 2, 2018. The company also announced that it has acquired Playground Games and that the studio will continue working on the Forza Horizon series under Microsoft. On to Forza Horizon 4, which is set in ancient Britain and that is very exciting as the game looked gorgeous in this trailer. We are big fans of Forza Horizon 3 and if that game is anything to go by, we can expect…