Three questions to ask yourself before you post on social media

Are you oversharing? Giving away too much about yourself on social media?

Here are three questions to ask yourself about your posts from a social engineering expert.

Social engineering is when someone manipulates you into doing something that usually benefits them and not you.

They review your posts to see what they can use to attack you.

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Story originally published December 13, 2022.

See print version here at Ampyx News (formerly called Ampere News).

 

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