A view of the Marina Bay Financial Centre. (PHOTO: Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) SINGAPORE — In the next two weeks, banks in Singapore will remove clickable links in emails or SMS sent to retail customers and implement other additional measures amid the spate of recent phishing scams. The announcement…
Meta is shutting down a video speed-dating service it had tested over a good part of last year, the company informed the service’s users via a recent email. Last April, the company formerly known as Facebook confirmed it was testing a new dating service called Sparked, which was developed by…
Bosses of platforms including Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, were also criticised by MPs on the Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee for not doing enough to halt online abuse. Tory Julian Knight, who chairs the committee, said at a hearing: “You ought to pay back the money that…
Social media giants have failed to do enough to stop fraudsters and must “refund the British public for any scam”, the chairman of an influential Commons committee has said. In a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing, Julian Knight, Conservative MP for Solihull and chairman of the committee, branded…
Scammers snatched a whopping $33 million from Australians in November, with investment scams accounting for almost two thirds (65%) of total losses, according to figures from Proofpoint and Scamwatch. A bulletin from Proofpoint notes that Australians reported fewer scams in November compared to the previous month, November was still a…
Apple has been under pressure to let developers redirect users to third-party payment systems instead of their own, but so far the company has been appealing this decision. Now the Dutch regulator is requiring Apple to allow dating apps to use alternative payment methods in the Netherlands. As noted by…
Joseph McCloud said he has so much love and respect for Emilia Gonzalez, a nurse he met six years ago, that he “could write a book about her.” Instead he wrote a 331-word tribute to her on Instagram, which won the couple a lavish wedding this past fall at the…
Criss Angel’s Son in remission after longtime cancer battle Criss Angel/Youtube Magician Criss Angel’s 7-year-old son Johnny Crisstopher has entered remission after more than five years since his cancer diagnosis. The illusionist — who shares Johnny with Shaunyl Benson — shared the news on Instagram writing, “TODAY OUR SON JOHNNY…
Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, has been sued over the 2020 killing of a federal security guard, a move that aims to challenge a federal statute that shields websites and social media platforms from liability for what users post. The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday by Angela Underwood Jacobs, the guard’s…
Social media giants have failed to do enough to stop fraudsters and must “refund the British public for any scam”, the chairman of an influential Commons committee has said. In a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee hearing, Julian Knight, Conservative MP for Solihull and chairman of the committee, branded…
