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Networking, networking, networking and more networking is the modern business man’s or business woman’s mantra. Networking, communicating, getting to know people and get their trust. Many hours lost ...

Social networking within the real estate sector has only gained notoriety over the past couple of years. With declining values in a depressed housing market, real estate agents have been expanding ...

A little-known data firm was able to build 48 million personal profiles, combining data from sites and social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Zillow, among others -- without the users' ...

A cloud storage repository belonging to LocalBlox, a company that creates personal profiles using information scraped from publicly accessible sources, has been found unsecured on the Web, potentially ...

Sabira Arefin, founder and CEO of LocalBlox, announced that the firm is offering a variety of mobile and social media tools to help keep neighborhoods safe. “LocalBlox is dedicated to building safe ...

A security researcher discovered an unprotected LocalBlox container in February. (BigStock Photo) A cybersecurity firm called UpGuard has tied Facebook — as well as other popular consumer sites — to ...

After Facebook found itself embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal that affected the personal information of 87 million of its users, the company is once again tied to another data breach.