Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'Facebook'
Symantec has been following the trends in Facebook phishing and the current wave of attacks looks similar to previous ones. Of course no one goes to this much trouble to vandalize Facebook pages, there is money to be made (stolen)...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 15, 2009 1:48 PM
The last couple of days have not been good ones for Facebook users getting phishing lures with messages like "check this out" linking to fake login pages. The attacks continued yesterday....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on May 1, 2009 12:41 PM
The social-network spreading worm Koobface is spreading on Facebook and luring users to download what appears to be an updated version of Flash....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on December 5, 2008 8:29 AM
It's one thing to say something embarrassing at the holiday dinner table around relatives you see once or twice a year, it's another to email, text or post to Facebook the same message. Early in the following video are some...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 28, 2008 10:38 AM
Forget your underwater stock options, you know your startup is a success when cybercrime takes notice....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 10, 2008 10:53 PM
The information we share with friends on social networking sites may be used in unintended ways, such as providing details for a spear phishing attack. In this podcast we look at the benefits as well as the risks in social...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on September 8, 2008 8:28 AM
A Black Hat presentation on social networking scams shows what can happen when you don't stake a claim in social networking sites....
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 8, 2008 9:34 AM
Web 2.0 technologies can be exploited for identity theft in a couple of different ways. First, there is a harvest model of collecting information that is voluntarily posted to sites, such as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn; and second, there is...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on January 14, 2008 3:29 PM
Rebecca Harold outlines common concerns about social networking in her post More Organizations Are Blocking Social Networking Sites To Address Information Security and Privacy Concerns. Most of the concerns center around security and confidentiality but Harold sees this is not...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on November 8, 2007 12:32 PM
Morphing social engineering techniques is the latest trick used by spammers, especially with the Storm spam and it fits with a strategy of targeting vulnerabilities with users less than with technology. It doesn't seem so long ago that PDF spam...
Posted by Dan Sullivan on August 23, 2007 7:13 AM
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