One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled City worker jailed for fake porn posts of colleague:
A City worker who posted fake photos of his colleague on porn websites after she refused to give him her number has been jailed.
Davide Buccheri, 25, made a gallery between 2016 and 2017 while working at the investment management firm M&G.
Buccheri then told the woman’s bosses about the photos to discredit her.
Source: BBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The New York Times published an article titled The Follower Factory:
All these accounts belong to customers of an obscure American company named Devumi that has collected millions of dollars in a shadowy global marketplace for social media fraud. Devumi sells Twitter followers and retweets to celebrities, businesses and anyone who wants to appear more popular or exert influence online. Drawing on an estimated stock of at least 3.5 million automated accounts, each sold many times over, the company has provided customers with more than 200 million Twitter followers, a New York Times investigation found.
Source: The New York Times
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled Facebook porn: Malware warning over video.
The latest threat to users involves a fake Flash Player update which pops up during a preview of a pornographic video.
Once you click on the link to update your video player, malware (the name given to malicious software), downloads onto your computer.
This Trojan horse software gives the creator of the malware remote access to your computer.
They can then download viruses onto your computer.
Source: BBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled Parents face defamation trial over fake Facebook page their kid made.
Two parents whose teenager set up a fake Facebook page to ridicule a classmate will face a defamation trial, a Georgia appeals court ruled yesterday. Even though they didn’t create the page, the parents could be liable because they allowed it to remain up for more than a year, the court said.
In 2011, Alexandria (Alex) Boston, a middle school student in Cobb County, Georgia, shared a homeroom class with Dustin Athearn and Melissa Snodgrass. Athearn and Snodgrass created a fake Facebook page under Boston’s name. They posted pictures of her taken using a “fat face” app and wrote posts that suggested she had racist views and was a lesbian, according to a report published today in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled Woman sues US government over fake Facebook page.
A woman is suing the US government after it created a fake Facebook page containing photos of her, including one that showed her half-clothed.
The Department of Justice acknowledged that one of its agents had created the page without telling Sondra Arquiett.
Source: BBC News
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled 31-year-old sophomore at E. Texas high school arrested.
A woman is behind bars after allegedly pretending to be an East Texas high school student.
Charity Anne Johnson, 31, was enrolled at New Life Christian School in Longview as a sophomore. Longview police say Johnson was arrested Tuesday at an apartment in the 400 block of S. High Street. Residents told officers they had reason to believe she was lying about her age and wanted assistance in making her leave.
Officer Debra Stiles said Johnson gave officers the name “Charite Stevens” and a birth date of November 24, 1997. This is the information Johnson used to enroll at New Life Christian School.
A spokesperson for the school said Johnson was brought in to enroll with a person who was her guardian. She enrolled in the school, giving a date of birth that indicated she was 15. On Tuesday, staff at the school discovered her identification was fake. She had been a student there since October 2013.
Source: WSFA
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