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OFT Warns Debt Collectors to Stop Using Facebook to Locate Borrowers

21

Oct

2011

To debt collectors all over the world, Facebook has become a veritable fount of information that makes their job considerably easier. If you were a debt collector and one of your borrowers had suddenly gone AWOL – easy, all you need to do is to lay in wait until he updates his Facebook page. Even […]

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BBC Sport in Rugby World Cup Twitter spam slip-up

19

Sep

2011

A compromised Twitter account has resulted in the embarrassing broadcast of a spam message via the BBC’s website. More and more TV stations are encouraging both their staff and their viewers to jump onboard the social media bandwagon, and use the likes of Twitter to interact and keep up-to-date with the latest developments. But if […]

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BlackBerry blog hacked after London riots

09

Aug

2011

London and other cities in the United Kingdom have been hit by riots for the last few days. Many of those responsible for the looting, arson and rioting which has hit British streets are believed to be teenagers, and the BlackBerry Messenger service (BBM for short) is believed to have played a key role in […]

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