Egotastic
Cybercriminals are pretty clever at disguising their scams and spam campaigns with cloaked links. Once clicked, the malicious code runs and one or more of several things happens next: your account gets hijacked, your personal information gets stolen, or your device gets infected with the virus.
The latest scam on the block is a Twitter spam campaign that's advertising a fake antivirus program. This was discovered by Kaspersky, who reported that 540 compromised Twitter accounts had sent out 4,148 tweets that linked to 44 unique domains.
Inventor of the World Wide Web Tells People to Demand Facebook, Google, and Twitter for their Data
Does Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited for inventing the Internet, have anything against Facebook, Google, and Twitter? I personally don't think he does, although Berners-Lee does have a lot to say about the data that these networks and online giants are keeping on their users.
As you probably already know, your data is valuable as it is personal. But this is the same data that you're using to make the ultimate trade off in order to use these supposedly free online services and social networks.
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