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Investment Scammers take to social networking sites

17

Sep

2011

The North American Securities Administrators Association has issued an alert warning potential investors of scammers using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn and dating sites. The typical modus operandi of the scam is to approach groups and even individual users to attempt to gain trust and rapport. (We have warned several times in the […]

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The Social Networking/Cybersafety Disconnect

23

Jun

2011

Survey Reveals Chasm between Users’ Concerns and Behavior A recent Survey commissioned by ESET and conducted online by Harris Interactive from May 31-June 2, 2011 among 2,027 U.S. adults 18+ found a startling disconnect between user concerns about privacy and security and their actions on social networking sites. To start, the study found that 69% […]

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New variant of Zeus malware targets LinkedIn members.

07

Jun

2011

It has been observed that the Zeus recent new variant has started to target LinkedIn members again. It was observed that the same malware Zeus had spam fake LinkedIn connection request to thousands of LinkedIn members during September last year. LinkedIn is a most popular business networking site with more than 90 million members and […]

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