Facebook Sent Cease and Desist to uSocial

November 21st, 2009

Facebook Sent Cease and Desist to uSocial

Share I previously wrote an article entitled: Feel Lonely? Want to Buy New Friends on Facebook?, and clearly, now Facebook want to put an end to the sale of friends’ activities by sending Cease and Desist letters to uSocial, an Australia-based company for the selling of Facebook friends and fans for money. According to BBC, “Facebook [...

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Control Your Info Hijacked Hundreds of Facebook Groups?

November 12th, 2009

Control Your Info Hijacked Hundreds of Facebook Groups?

Share It looks like quite a number of Facebook groups have been hijacked by a hacker with hijinks in mind? No, the Facebook groups that have been hijacked was under the name of security purpose, with an intention to highlight the apparent flaw in the Facebook group itself. Searching for “Control Your Info,” users will find [...]...

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When Your Facebook Friend Is Not A Human

November 10th, 2009

When Your Facebook Friend Is Not A Human

Share Koobface variant is resurfaced again. This time this virus is not only back but with added sophisticated and behaves like an usual Facebook user. According to TrendMicro, it automates the following routines: Firstly register a Facebook account, and confirm an email address in GMail in order to activate the registered Facebook account. Unlike...

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Say NO to Phishing Campaigns

November 9th, 2009

Say NO to Phishing Campaigns

Share Phishing campaigns on social networks are not new. The scammers are not satisfied only for pushing spam to sell “Canadian” pills. Now they are using all sorts of phishing campaigns to steal your Facebook password, and constantly change their tactics such as trick the users to download a keylogger so that they can collect [...]...

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Beware of Zeus Trojan

November 8th, 2009

Beware of Zeus Trojan

Share Scammers never give up, although various sorts of phishing scams have been blocked by Facebook. It seemed that the more serious one appears to be the fake email with the malicious “updatetool.exe attachment”, as reported by Webroot, an established security experts on the Web. This fake email is pretends to be from the Facebook ad...

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Learn to Use Abuse Reporting Features

November 7th, 2009

Learn to Use Abuse Reporting Features

Share In an ongoing battle against spam or any abuse, Facebook has included a “Report” feature for the profile, page or group which users are allowed to file an abuse report. When clicked, this particular abuse reporting will immediately be submitted to the Facebook user operation team members and the aforesaid action will be filed [.....

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