Love in the time of cyber security: Are online dating apps safe?
With a growing step taken everyday towards digitalization and a surge in the sales of Smartphones and IOS, Indian youngsters are now giving a chance to the dating apps to make them fall in love. But the question to be raised is are youngsters falling in love or falling a prey to cyber criminals?
Kaspersky Lab and research firm B2B International recently conducted a survey and found that as many as one-in- three people are dating online.People turn to online dating for a variety of reasons- 48% do it for fun, while some look for more meaningful relationships and one-in- ten are simply looking for sex (13%). People share information with others too easily when they are dating online, with a quarter (25%) admitting they share their full name publicly on their dating profile. One-in-ten have shared their home address, and the same number have shared naked photos of themselves this way, exposing them to risk. But how carefully do these apps handle such data? Kaspersky Lab decided to put them through their security paces.
Kaspersky Lab experts studied the most popular mobile online dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Badoo, Mamba, Zoosk, Happn, WeChat, Paktor), and identified the main threats for users. …read more
