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Hacking Horror: How My Digital Identity Was Stolen, and How I Got it Back

By Eden Solarik on July 22, 2022 | Tagged with Cyber Security, Digital identity, Digital Security, Hacking, Instagram, Online Safety, Social media

If you haven’t had one of your social media accounts hacked, consider yourself lucky—but don’t assume that you will be safe forever.[1] According to a survey by the University of Phoenix, nearly two thirds of adults have had a social media account hacked.[2] Often, scams start by sending an automated link from an already-compromised friend’s […]

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Back to School Safety

By samantha summers on September 12, 2019 | Tagged with Cyber Security, Digital Security, education, safety, university

Ah, September. The beginning of a fresh academic year. Hopeful students both incoming and returning will be flocking Canadian campuses over the next few weeks armed with new notebooks (electronic or otherwise) and reinvigorated aspirations for the coming twelve months. It’s an exciting time of year, but it’s also a time of year when it […]

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In the News: Google Automatically Logs Users Into Chrome Browser on Google Sites

In the News: Google Automatically Logs Users Into Chrome Browser on Google Sites

By Jason Cheung on November 6, 2018 | Tagged with Consent, Cyber Security, geolocation, google, In the News, privacy policy, surveillance

  Google launched version 69.0 of its Chrome web browser on September 5, 2018 [1]. After the last version update of the  browser [2], we talked Google’s decision to mark all HTTP-only websites as ‘Not Secure’. In their update for Chrome 69, Google decided to log users who had turned the ‘Sync’ feature into their […]

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Intel Techniques Review

Intel Techniques Review

By dominique rivera on October 10, 2018 | Tagged with Cyber Security, cybercrime, Hidden Information, Review

  Do you really know what your social media exposure is?  What if you discovered that photographs or videos that you thought were secured, hidden or private, could be exposed with just a click of a button? Worse, how can you figure it out and change it? Intel Techniques is a website created by “small […]

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