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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'Facebook'


More on Facebook Phishing

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)...

Facebook Phishing Continues

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....

Facebook is the New Email, At Least for Spreading Malware

The social-network spreading worm Koobface is spreading on Facebook and luring users to download what appears to be an updated version of Flash....

Holiday Warning: Don't Drink and Message

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...

Facebook Target for Cybercrime

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

The Benefits and Risks of Social Networking

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...

Social Networking Tool for Scammers

A Black Hat presentation on social networking scams shows what can happen when you don't stake a claim in social networking sites....

Web 2.0 Identity Theft

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...

Social Network Not All Bad for Enterprise

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...

Storm Spam Doubles, Attackers Experimenting with New Techniques

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...

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