Social Networks

A model and social media influencer is awaiting sentence after her bank account was used for the transfer of crime proceeds from an invoice payment scam. Karine Lawani (22), a psychology student, with an address at Foxborough Road, Lucan, Co Dublin, pleaded guilty to money-laundering after “naively” offering help to a man on Snapchat who needed an account. Det Garda John Saunderson told Dublin District Court that €5,430 was transferred into Lawani’s Permanent TSB bank account on February 11th last year. A Waterford-based firm had earlier received an email purporting to be from a supplier seeking payment of an invoice. The firm transferred the money as instructed and on the same date there were two withdrawals from Lawani’s account. Gardaí obtained CCTV evidence showing an “unknown male withdrawing €1,500 from the account” at an ATM in the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. Lawani took out €3,200 from a bank machine on Dublin’s O’Connell Street. Two days later €700 was withdrawn. Snapchat messageDet Garda Saunderson said Lawani was arrested and interviewed in January. She claimed she saw a Snapchat message from a man looking for a Permanent TSB account so he could receive a payment from someone else with an account with…

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WhatsApp it is one of the applications that is still on the rise. It currently has millions of users who use it to be able to send photos, videos, GIFs, animated stickers and even to be able to use the new tools that allow you, for example, to play a voice memo with twice the normal speed. Nowadays WhatsApp It has a new version in which you can activate the multi-device tool in order to open your chats on any computer, laptop or tablet without having to have your main cell phone nearby. But it is not the only thing. Many people use emojis in their chats on a daily basis. These are located on a special keyboard and are around 500 icons existing on the platform. Has someone ever sent you a fire emoji? There are several who want to know how to interpret this emoticon and what to do if someone sends it to you by WhatsApp. That is why here we will provide you with an explanation so that you can get rid of all doubts. In order to know in detail what the fire emoji means in WhatsApp it is necessary to resort to a well-known…

Forget what you thought about Snapchat, the app is growing faster than it has in years, now counting over 293 million daily active users.Just a couple of years ago, it looked like it could have been the end.Related | Instagram Now Automatically Translates Texts In Stories In 90 LanguagesIn 2018, Snapchat was not doing well. Following a disastrous redesign, its stock price bottomed out under $5 as users and advertisers were questioning the very survival of the app.But nowadays, things are looking drastically different for Snapchat. Its user base is growing faster than it has ever done since it went public back in 2017. Snap said the app added over 13 million daily users during the second quarter, a 23% increase year on year. Snapchat now counts over 293 million daily active users, which means 120 million more than it did this time four years ago (173M.) As a comparison, Twitter reported 206 million active daily users for the same time period.But it’s not just user growth for Snapchat. The company also reported a 116% increase in revenue, bringing its total to $982 million, making Snapchat one of the fastest-growing social media companies.Snapchat continues to build its growth around a passion…

A former titan of Twitch, Mitch Jones dominated the streaming community for years. The once-Top 10 streamer forged a unique path to stardom which landed him as a household name, boasting over half a million followers and pulling multi-thousand viewer streams on the regular. Jones found his forte in the popular World of Warcraft streams and a multitude of other ventures including Pokemon Go and his Just Chatting content. His reach was immense: the creative found himself riding a career high, hitting new milestones with each and every stream. In July of 2020, Jones’ best friend and fellow Twitch streamer Byron “Reckful” Bernstein died by suicide… everything changed.The once deeply fulfilled streamer had his life uprooted, and spiraled into quitting his illustrious streaming channel for good. In April, Jones took to YouTube to explain his decision to retire from streaming, as well as the ultimate abandoning of his empire. “Truly I had some magical moments,” explains Jones, “those days are over. Every day that I continue feels like me trying to relive something that I’ve already reached the peak of.”Over the past 4 months, Jones channeled his grief into music, hoping to find an outlet for his seemingly untreatable depression…

An employment law expert has described as “incredibly stupid” and “crazy" an employer communicating with employees on an important workplace issue via WhatsApp emojis. ublin-based solicitor Richard Grogan made his comment after it emerged that one joinery manufacturing company at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 communicated with employees on their participation in the Government’s Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme through a WhatsApp thumbs up or thumbs down emoji. The employer set up the WhatsApp group to determine who wished to avail of the Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme when the Covid-19 pandemic forced the business to shut down on a temporary basis. An apprentice carpenter who initially replied with a thumbs down emoji was removed from the WhatsApp group and stated that he was informed that if he didn’t wish to participate in the wage subsidy scheme, there would be no job for him when the company re-opened. Mr Grogan said today: “This beggars belief.” The apprentice carpenter brought a case to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), and WRC adjudicator Thomas O’Driscoll has recommended that the employer pay the apprentice carpenter €1,000 compensation for the unfair manner of his dismissal. The employee gave the thumbs down emoji because 70pc of his…

Hackers use social engineering skills to trick users into clicking on malicious content, thereby gaining access to personal data. Though many computer literates think they are not susceptible to social engineering or other cyber-attacks, truth is that majority of the intelligent are vulnerable. There are three types of hackers (a) Black hat – Steals valuable information for malicious reasons. (b) White hat – They strive to improve the security of an organisation’s security systems. (c) Grey hat – Hacker sometimes violate laws ethical standards but does not have malicious intent. Categories of hackers * Bank robber – Sole purpose to steal money * Nation/State – Creates malicious back doors for cyber warfare purposes * Corporate spy – Stealing corporate intellectual property * Professional hacking group for hire – Expert hackers develop malware to steal for a fee * Rogue gamer – Specialised hackers for the gaming industry * Crypto Jackers – For mining cryptocurrencies * Hacktivists – Political or corporate propaganda * Botnet masters – Create bots for command-and-control (C&C) servers * Adware spammer – Redirecting your browser to an alternate site * Thrill hacker – Sole Motive to break laws of the land. * Accidental hacker – Has no…

Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, in a photo from a paid press release on Sept. 02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter, KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. When the U.S. Justice Department last week announced O’Connor’s arrest and indictment, his alleged role in the Twitter compromise was well covered in the media. But most of the coverage seems to have overlooked the far more sinister criminal charges in the indictment, which involve an underground scene wherein young men turn to extortion, sextortion, SIM swapping, death threats and physical attacks — all in a frenzied effort to seize control over social media accounts. Skim the government’s indictment and you might overlook a footnote on Page 4 that says O’Connor is part of a group that had exactly zero reservations about using their playbook of harassment tactics against law enforcement agents who were already investigating their alleged crimes. “O’Connor has potentially been linked to additional prior swatting incidents and possibly (although not confirmed and currently still under investigation) the swatting of a U.S. law enforcement officer,” the footnote reads. Swatting…