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MailGuard has intercepted a fraudulent email purporting to be from LinkedIn, a popular e-networking tool used by millions of professionals worldwide. This is a phishing email designed to harvest the confidential data of LinkedIn users for malicious intent, such as committing identity theft.

The persistent rise of cryptocurrency is changing the internet in a variety of ways, and although it’s relatively early days there's already been some high profile cryptocurrency fraud incidents. As soon as a new technology hits the www, scammers move in to grab what they can, and crypto is no different.

As a parent, the only difficult discussion you thought you had to have with your children was the one about the "birds and the bees". In this day and age you may also find yourself discussing online issues such as "likes" and "selfies", or "trolls" and "cyber bullies". Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt predicted that online identities would become so important, parents would need to talk with their kids about online privacy long before they even gave them the "sex talk'".

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See what I did there? In Part 1 ‘What’s the ‘hash’ on hashtagging?’ you learnt about the history and the power of hashtags. 

In a recent article I discussed how MailGuard uses Hootsuite to manage social media but it seems SMEs are still either hesitant or unwilling to take advantage of the social network. Small business owner Maureen Pound suggests that there are several psychological factors keeping SMEs from utilising social media and its potential market.

With the noughties over and us powering through the teens, Paul Wallbank (@paulwallbank) decided to ponder what might the biggest tech trends in business might look like in 2020 over at Ovations. He explains:

Contrary to what a number of people think, LinkedIn is not just a social network for job seekers and job recruiters.