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How Fyre Festival Hoodwinked Investors Out Of $36 Million
6A leaked sales deck for 2017’s disastrous Fyre Festival contains the pitch CEO Billy McFarland gave investors ahead of the failed event. The model-festooned sales deck contains misleading information about the festival and has been described as “beyond parody.” Here are the slides.
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How To Avoid ATM Fraud When You Travel
Travel inherently includes some security risks, because part of security is knowing how things are supposed to work, so you can recognise what’s sketchy. Go to a new city and you might fall for a taxi scam, get pick-pocketed — or get your money stolen by an ATM skimmer. We talked to Daniel Smith, security…
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Five Famous Hackers And The Price They Paid
With yesterday’s news that notorious spammer Severa has been arrested in Spain, I was wondering what sort of sentence he can expect if he is found guilty of spamming and hacking crimes. Here’s a look at five famous hackers and how they paid for the crimes.
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Beware Of Fake Shopping Apps During The Holidays
If you ever search for a popular application in Apple’s App Store, you’ll inevitably see a bunch of copycats trying to use the name recognition to fool you into downloading their app. It’s usually pretty innocuous, but it can become a more pernicious problem during the holidays.