Facebook Blocked Checking-My-Profile Scam

March 18th, 2010

I hate when someone is looking/checking my profile and I don’t even know about this!!! But this time, you’re not alone. Likewise, Facebook also hate it, and hence they blocked the applications that offered users a unique feature to see who is viewing their profiles. Simply not because of the emotional feelings of hate, it [...]...

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Reports Revealed Facebook A Target for Cyber Criminals

February 12th, 2010

As cyber criminals are increasingly targeting Facebook, security issue has became the number one concern on Facebook, and the users or firms that used Facebook for social networking. As seen in several reports published on the Web recently, the types and severity of the Facebook attacks are expected to be risen in this year 2010. [...]...

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Facebook Fixed Unnamed App Bug

January 30th, 2010

Some said this year 2010 is the year of spam, as the networking gurus at Cisco predicted that worldwide spam volumes will increase by 30 or 40 percent over 2009 levels; see the PDF report here. Apart from simply reading the report or get ready to the spamming challenges, Facebook has announced that they have [...]...

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Yet A New Facebook Login Page

December 25th, 2009

While scouting the Web for the latest Facebook security issues, I’ve stumbled upon a new Facebook login page, as shown in the below pictures. In fact, it is not surprising that the fake Facebook site still exist as cybercriminals are using it as a phishing attack to steal the users’ login password. Picture 1: Normally [...]...

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Facebook Blocked Seppukoo

December 15th, 2009

There will be more attacks on Facebook especially now it has reached 350 million accounts and its growth doesn’t show any sign of slowing. Although it is true that many of us prefer to use Facebook instead of other social networks due to its popularity, but a site called Seppukoo is offering Facebook users a [...]...

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Control Your Info Hijacked Hundreds of Facebook Groups?

November 12th, 2009

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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Say NO to Phishing Campaigns

November 9th, 2009

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 your [...]...

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Facebook Won $711 Million in Anti-Spammer Case

November 7th, 2009

Back in November last year, Facebook has been awarded a whopping $873 million against the spammers that sending the sleazy messages to their users. However, it seemed the battle against the spammers is not over yet as Facebook has been awarded another high-profile $711 million in damages by San Jose, California court against Sanford Wallace, [...]...

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Friends or Sex Offenders?

March 1st, 2009

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...

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Keep Your Kids Safe Online

January 28th, 2009

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, [...]...

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