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Your digital footprints are more than a privacy risk – they could help hackers infiltrate computer networks

  • Written by Ravi Sen, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University
imageYour digital footprints can give hackers clues about you that they can use to trick you.Ivan/Flickr, CC BY-SA

When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information about your mobile...

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