Archive for November, 2008

Facebook Wins Lawsuit Against Spammers

Posted on November 24th, 2008 in lawsuit | No Comments »

Share According to the latest Facebook’s blog entry, Facebook has been awarded $873 million in damages in a ruling it had against marketing spammers that are Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital for sending sleazy messages to their users. A...

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Photo-Tagging: New Tactic of Marketing Spam

Posted on November 24th, 2008 in Facebook Security, spam | No Comments »

Share For some users, Facebook’s photo tagging is a new fun for them when they want to share their photos with their friends, and showed that the one who tagged also a friend in their inner circles. However, this has brought the issue of photo...

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Facebook Spamming Not Surprise, huh?

Posted on November 20th, 2008 in Facebook, spam | No Comments »

Share I’ve read an article that talked about Facebook is about to have a big spam problem, and “it’s not surprising.” Of course, everyone love Facebook now, and no one should expect spam will not happened in the Facebook envi...

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Beware of the Nigerian 419 Scam on Facebook

Posted on November 10th, 2008 in Facebook, Scammers | No Comments »

Share This is a latest attempt of the attack on Facebook user; this time is not spam, but the notorious Nigerian 419 scammer on Facebook. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, a Facebook user, also worked at Google Australia Karina Wells has recei...

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Secure Computing Releases Internet Threats Report Quarter Three

Posted on November 5th, 2008 in malware | No Comments »

Share Secure Computing Corporation has compiled the Quarter 3, 2008 Internet Threats Report (PDF) containing statistical data and analysis covering both email and Web-based threats. Among the findings of the report, Q3 saw the emergence of the new m...

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Facebook Spam Messages

Posted on November 1st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Security, spam | No Comments »

Share Facebook spam is definitely on the rise, but the good side is that the official security page of Facebook, i.e. Facebook Security has provided the typical screenshots of the spam posts and messages for the users to be fully aware of. Please pa...

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