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New “Unfollowed You” Scam Hits Twitter Trending Topics

21

Dec

2011

Twitter‘s list of trending topics appears to have been hit hard by another variant of the familiar “see who unfollowed you” scam:Significant numbers of Tweets are being sent out that contain the above message: saying that a certain number of people have unfollowed them, and to find out who unfollowed you, click on the link. […]

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Lady Gaga’s Twitter account tweeting links to survey scam

20

Dec

2011

The Twitter account of famous singer Lady Gaga has apparently been hacked. It's being used by attackers to lure her more than 17 million followers to click on a link: After a number of redirects, the link ultimately leads to a survey scam that is designed to harvest personal information: The first link uses the URL shortener bit.ly, […]

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Facebook gives security and privacy whistleblowers a red card

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Dec

2011

In a bizarre move by Facebook, a blog which has highlighted security and privacy issues on the social network has found itself banned, preventing the spread of news, opinion and advice. The “Unofficial Guide to Facebook Privacy and Security” blog, which in the past has uncovered security issues such as Facebook’s own help center being […]

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