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An aquarium of blowfish on Facebook

06

Jul

2011

As is the case with every long weekend, the 4th of July weekend brought quite a lot of scams spreading through Facebook. Besides the usual click-jacking, hoaxes, and phishing attacks, one particular scam was discovered that showed the imminent evolution of this type of attack. As always, the scam commences with a bait message – […]

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Social Network Attacks Surge

30

Jun

2011

Exploiting the popularity of social networks for the purposes of distributing spam, malware, and phishing attacks is quite a common technique these days. Spam attacks via social networks grew dramatically between April and June 2011. Over this period, we monitored and analyzed social network spam attacks that used three popular social networking sites—Facebook, Twitter, and […]

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Anti-Phishing Day

18

Jun

2011

Too bad it doesn’t exist. I mean really exist. Here is how an anti-phishing day that is designed to be a highly effective educational deterrent to phishing would work. Google, Facebook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Twitter, Myspace, Banks, Online Gaming sites, such as World of WarCraft, and others would all send phishing emails to their users. Yes, […]

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