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Socialbot Network finds it easy to harvest data from Facebook users

01

Nov

2011

Researchers have claimed that Facebook’s inbuilt security systems are “not effective enough” at stopping automated identity theft, after running a large-scale infiltration of the network using Socialbots. In their paper, “The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialise for Fame and Money”, researchers from the University of British Columbia describe how they managed to collect private data […]

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Social engineers don’t care about your OS: and nor should you

27

May

2011

Security companies in general and, unfortunately, anti-malware companies in particular, are often accused of ‘hyping’ threats because of a perceived self-interest. However, in the main, legitimate vendors and researchers like those at ESET typically try to resist overhyping or playing up threats where possible, in favor of more balanced discussion that can help customers take […]

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Visit the New Facebook? Hacker warning spreads like wildfire on social network

16

May

2011

Facebook users are posting warnings to one another about a hacker operating on the network, using the offer to “Visit the new Facebook” to break into pages and kick out the page’s legitimate administrators. Unfortunately the alerts do not include enough information to be useful, and members of the public may be unwittingly perpetuating a […]

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