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A Foxnews Twitter account was hacked

04

Jul

2011

Yesterday (evening US time), the Politics Twitter account of FoxNews has been hacked and the fraudsters have started to publish fake messages about US President Obama’s death. According to posts, the president was supposly shot and his place has been (already) taken by the vicepresident Joe Biden. The hacker wrote just after starting these messages: […]

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Getting tagged and your privacy

22

Jun

2011

This morning my Facebook email address was invaded with spam (scam-spam as I call it) from people in my friends list with subject titles similar to the following: “<Some Friend1> invited you to the event You Gotta See This Exciting Feature!!<random number>" “<Some Friend 2> tagged you on Facebook” The messages appeared suspicious to me, […]

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Facebook under attack by scammers

17

May

2011

Facebook is facing no shortage of attacks from scammers. Yesterday, I posted a blog about a recent scam being circulated on the Facebook network and only a few hours later, we uncovered yet another one. The goal of this scam remains the same as earlier one, namely to coerce Facebook users into completing various surveys […]

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