Warnings over online scams is the topic at a major cyber-security conference in Dublin today.
Websites are being used by Eastern European and North African gangs to lure men into exchanging intimate footage.
Such blackmail incidents have occurred in Mid-Ulster.
The conference will outline the challenges in a fast-evolving world of online threats.
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