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Facebook Target for Cybercrime

Forget your underwater stock options, you know your startup is a success when cybercrime takes notice.

Facebook is now home to yet another Nigerian scam according to the Sydney Morning Herald. So just in case you were about to send $500 to a friend stranded in Lagos, Nigeria because he posted a message on your page, you might want to think again.

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Dan Sullivan is a systems architect with 20 years of IT experience that includes engagements in enterprise security, application design, and systems architecture. His experience includes a broad range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, government, retail, gas and oil production, power generation, and education. Dan’s security-related project work has ranged from requirements analysis for enterprise information security to designing and implementing security for database applications and enterprise portals. Dan has written about information security and other enterprise information management topics for Business Security Advisor, DM Review, Intelligent Enterprise, and E-Business Advisor. You can contact Dan at: dan_sullivan@realtimepublishers.net