New Facebook Phishing Scams: Beware of .at and .be Domain Names

May 25th, 2009

New Facebook Phishing Scams: Beware of .at and .be Domain Names

Share There is a new wave of phishing scams that targeted Facebook users for the past few days and probably you’ve heard of this. It started with the phishing sites that registered under .at (Austria) and later the .be (Belgium) domain names. For this purpose, I’ve compiled a list of these phishing sites, and whenever [...]...

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Facebook Blocked Two Facebook Bogus Sites

April 30th, 2009

Facebook Blocked Two Facebook Bogus Sites

Share According to the news across the Web, Facebook has blocked two bogus Facebook sites, that are fbaction.net and fbstarter.com. These two sites used the same trick by sending the phishing emails to some Facebook users that attempts to convince them to type in their Facebook username and password onto these bogus sites. As at this [...]...

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MSRT Will Protect You Against Koobface

April 8th, 2009

MSRT Will Protect You Against Koobface

Share If you’re using Windows, you probably have heard of Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). It is a quality antivirus solution to be delivered to the Windows PCs as part of the Automatic Updates package each month. A good news is that now it’s more safer to use Windows-based PCs to access Facebook as Koobface, a particularly [......

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Beware Of The Dancing Girl Video

March 13th, 2009

Beware Of The Dancing Girl Video

Share Online criminals are increasingly targeting at Facebook. So guys, if you’ve received any message that contain the following message subjects, please “do not” open it or proceed according to what the message told. The message is served as a bait which offer malicious link and if you click on it, it’ll redirect you to a...

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Warning: New Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook

March 7th, 2009

Warning: New Koobface Worm Spreading on Facebook

Share I’m not sure whether this is a good sign for the Facebook and its users. More security issues would mean that Facebook is large enough as a viable target for the spammers or scammers. And on the other end, the new Koobface worm as reported by TrendMicro security blog more or less helped the [...]...

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Friends or Sex Offenders?

March 1st, 2009

Friends or Sex Offenders?

Share MySpace made a big news when they revealing that they’ve identified and removed about 90,000 sex offenders from its sites recently. It wasn’t surprised by the similar action taken by Facebook on the same issue towards children and teenagers protection. According to Connecticut’s attorney general, Facebook has removed more t...

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