According to Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report, they found that employees accessing Facebook games at work would cause devastating consequences as companies are at risk due to the online criminals are believed to be developed ways to deliver malware via these games. As a result of the study, Cisco found that 7 percent of Facebook [...]...

Panda Labs has detected a new Bredolab variant masking itself as the “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation! Support Message.” As shown in the below picture, you’ll notice that the From in the email is labeled as “Facebook Manager” and typically, the sender address is spoofed. The attachment is entitled as Facebook_docu...

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 [...]...

Are you one of those users who is always figuring out how to view other Facebook users’ private profiles? Call it curiosity, call it paranoia, you’re a stalker, right! Or you do it for a good reason, because you suspect your girlfriend is dating with a guy and you want to check out her Facebook [...]...

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 administr...

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 [...]...

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...