McAfee, one of the leading Internet security firms has launched a Facebook page called Moms Against Cybercrime. On this page, you’ll find all the tips on which how parents keep their kids safe when they go online. Besides with the tips, there are videos, blog posts that synchronized from McAfee’s Security Insights blog. In fact, [...]...

I wished I do not need to post on this blog in this month. Naturally, if I read any threat in the Facebook community, you’ll read my post. The most recent threat is that it is not only appeared in Facebook, but also found on some other social networking sites such as Friendster, MySpace, etc. [...]...

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. According to the court document embedded in below (PDF), the judge Jeremy Fogel has made this ruling [...]...

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-tagging spam. According to AdvertisingAge, the so-called photo-tagging feature has been used [...]...

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 environment. A common Web strategy I heard nowadays is: If you build it, they will come. “They” [.....

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 received a Facebook message from her friend Adrian that seeking help from Lagos, Nigeria. [...]...

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 malware targeting users of the popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The worm misuse...

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 pay careful attention to these pictures enclosed as below, so when you come [...]...

New Facebook attack are once again in the news, this time was discovered by Unified Threat Management vendor Fortinet. In particular, this security warning came from Fortinet, in a FortiGuard Advisory (FGA-2008-26), said that Facebook users who click on the URL links found in their message inbox in order to watch video, and the URL [...]...

I just came across an article that entitled, “Pizza Hut To Spam Facebook Users.” To me, this article is quite interesting, especially it talked about when a user installs the Pizza Hut Facebook application called Pizza Hut Interface, whenever she ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut through this application in Facebook, her friends would get ...