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Facebook is at the forefront of yet another privacy nightmare. In early April, it was discovered that over 500 million phone numbers and emails were leaked in the most recent Facebook data breach. Half a billion people now have their personal information exposed online. The data in the leak includes names, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords, birth dates, and locations. With all of this data exposed on the internet, there is little that can be done to reverse the affects....

Every election cycle the number of unwanted spam texts only seems to increase. Political campaigns now send text messages to extend their outreach. Political texts are used to register new voters, gather support for candidates, and raise funds for political campaigns. For people who did not sign up to receive these texts, or no longer want to receive them, political texts can be very annoying. The good news is that it is really easy to stop political texts and get rid of them from your phone....

What is worse than one spam text? Hundreds of them. A phone full of unwanted text messages, from different numbers is enough to drive you crazy. It feels almost impossible to block them all. Going in to each message and blocking the sender one-by-one just gets tiring. Thankfully, there is an easy way to block spam texts that come from different phone numbers or email addresses. Check out the complete guide for blocking spam texts on iPhone...

Spam texts are annoying enough on your phone. They are even more annoying when they start showing up on your iPad. Fortunately, there are several ways to shield your iPad from spam text messages. Apple offers detailed instructions on how you can combat spam on your device. Here is a drilled down version so you can get right to blocking those spam texts. Trying to block spam texts on your iPhone?...

This weekend the latest update for Dont Text was released on the App Store. You can download or update Dont Text today to try out the newest version. There are some exciting new changes to Dont Text, so without further ado, let’s dive in. Announcing iPad Support The biggest change in Dont Text version 1.3.3 is iPad support. Dont Text now includes a version of the app designed and optimized for iPadOS....

A while ago, I got a spam text claiming to be from ROCKSTAR Energy. It was painfully obvious that this was a fake message. I did a little research and found that this is an older scam known as Car Wrap Scams Download Dont Text on the App Store to block spam texts like this one Above is the spam texts I received, sounds ridiculous right? Maybe I spend too much time reading and analyzing spam text messages but there were a few things about this one that gave me a good laugh....

Have you ever wondered why anybody would waste their time phishing a Netflix account? Is someone really that desperate to save $8 by watching my Netflix account? It is not that uncommon to receive spam texts or phishing emails claiming to be Netflix. Attackers like to target your accounts that seem unimportant or not worth securing. Accounts that are not your bank, email, or business related accounts usually don’t seem worth protecting to most users....

Most people do not expect to become victims of a phishing attack. Finding out that your accounts were compromised in a phishing attack is scary. You will feel shocked and confused. You won’t believe that it happened to you. You’ll ask yourself, ‘how was I phished’? It seems so obvious now, right? No need to beat yourself up over it, now is the time to take action to fix it. Stay calm and try not to panic, you can still take steps to recover your account and minimize the damage....

The growth of mobile devices has increased the number of ways phishing continues to exploit unsuspecting users. More people than ever own a mobile device. People are on their phones all the time. You no longer only check your email from a computer. We read our inboxes on our phones and tablets every day. While mobile devices make the internet more accessible, they open up new opportunities for phishers and spammers....

Knowing how to protect yourself from phishing can seem difficult and overwhelming at first. The cyber security industry uses lots of buzzwords that make simple issues a lot more complicated than they really are. However, phishing is a straightforward type of attack. In simple terms, phishing is an attack that attempts to steal a user’s password or personal information. Phishing often occurs by email but is now very common over text....