To help users fight back against scammer, phishing and identity theft, one of the most used and accessed sites on the Web Facebook has taken a new security measures with an aim to reduce the amount of compromised accounts with a suspicious activity page. Jake Brill, a project manager for the site integrity team at [...]...

Cybercriminals and phishers are still focusing their efforts on Facebook. Several new scam tactics are listed as below. 1) Koobface Variant Resurfaced again Recent report from CA suggested that a Koobface variant is still actively sending massive spam messages to millions of users on Facebook. During the attack, the Koobface variant connects to the...

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 you [...]...

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 [...]...

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 [...]...

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 [...]...

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 users [...]...

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 than 5,5...

Facebook no longer a place for safe and trusted environment? Internet predators? 1. Facebook Admits Sexual Assault Suspect Used Site Police have charged Wisconsin 18-year-old Anthony Stancl with sexual assault and accused him of copying female Facebook members’ photos, pretending to be a girl, and persuading male schoolmates to send nude phot...

Be wary, more scams are appeared on Facebook. The channel scammers used on Facebook might be different this time, no longer the Wall posts or messages that conned users to check out links that lead to download adware, and something about virus, but via chat. Founder and President/CEO of SnapStream reported that in his blog, [...]...