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‘Found a funny picture of you!’ Twitter phishing attack

24

Oct

2011

We’re now regularly seeing Twitter accounts which have fallen into the hands of cybercriminals, sending out messages to their their online friends with the aim of tricking them into handing over their all-important username and password. Here’s one of the latest attacks, shared with us by our friends at @TweetSmarter: Found a funny picture of […]

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Is Al Gore asking permission to spam from your social networking account?

05

Sep

2011

Is this spam or not? I’m finding it hard to decide. But there’s certainly something about it which makes me feel uncomfortable with my security hat on. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project is encouraging social networking users to “donate” their online accounts for what they call “24 hours of Reality”. During that time, the organisation […]

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Facebook scams aiming to profit from recent tragedies at Norway and Amy Winehouse’s death

25

Jul

2011

The tragic events that occurred at the end of last week with the Norway attacks and the sudden death of the British singer Amy Winehouse incurred some unwanted scam activities in cyberspace. Websense Security Labs™ ThreatSeeker™ Network has detected that scams pretending to offer a 'look at footage of Amy Winehouse just moments after her death' and similar scams in […]

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