This Valentine may not steal your heart, but all your data!
Just updated your profile picture on Tinder hoping to hook a Valentine's Day partner? Beware, your V-day could end up a Virus day.
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Just updated your profile picture on Tinder hoping to hook a Valentine's Day partner? Beware, your V-day could end up a Virus day.
Got an e-card from someone you think is a secret admirer? The sender might be more interested in stealing your digital information than stealing your heart.
Not to rain on your V-day parade, but with increasing online activity in the form of e-cards, mail attachments and browsing and uploading data on online dating platforms, users are more vulnerable to cyber attacks, a report by Intel Security warns.
Some 79 percent of people the survey polled said they shared personal data and pictures on online dating platforms, some 41 percent even saying they shared their most intimate pictures.
But Intel Security's ‘Cybermum’ Anindita Mishra says that to be safe this V-day — don’t open attachments from unknown senders, delete sent intimate messages, be careful about what you share online, minimise digital, stick to the real world.