October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and TikTok has launched a series new tips, videos and tips to help users improve the security of their profiles and ensure they avoid common scams and schemes.
As more and more people fall for online scams, with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reporting a record high $16.6 billion in consumer losses by 2024.
Therefore, it is important to remain vigilant and ensure that people are aware of the evolving cybercrime efforts and how they can avoid falling victim to scams.
According to TikTok:
“TikTok aims to encourage everyone to #BeCyberSmart. We want to inspire and empower our diverse community to make strong decisions online, both on our platform and anywhere else.”
First, TikTok has added a series of videos with cybersecurity tips to its videos @TikTokTips accountfeaturing 8-bit computer game-themed clips focusing on various aspects of cybersecurity.
The clips are short and engaging, which should help them resonate with the TikTok community.
TikTok is also shared a series of cybersecurity tips and pointers to help users avoid scams:
Although some pointers and questions have also been shared to help you think about your own security efforts.
These are some useful additions to TikTok’s broader protection efforts, and it’s good to see the app continuing to focus on user education, in line with its own prevention efforts.
And TikTok is also taking more action to remove spam and scam content on the app more ads and accounts are being removed for violations.
These efforts, combined with the knowledge tools, could help protect TikTok users and raise awareness of scam activities more broadly.
You can check out TikTok’s cybersecurity tips here.
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