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Practice safe Internet on the road
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 31.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | email, privacy, smartphone, social media, threat
Summary | Traveling can be dangerous, especiallyin the digital age. Many travelers make themselves vulnerable to criminals by sharing their location on social media or by connecting to a password-free wifi which is often provided by scammers to hack into email accounts. In these cases virtual kidnapping becomes possible when travelers spend a few days somewhere off the grid and a local group claims to have kidnapped the traveler and blackmails their family for ransom.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman sitting in a train.
Image Tags | female(s)
Internet Kompakt
(Internet compact)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, email, research/study, social media, threat
Summary | The German language learning app Babbel is increasingly successful, they claim to have one million paying users. Statistics show that the district with the most social media users is Hessen with 86% active social media users. The criminal department of the Netherlands warns residents of malware emails.
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