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Worm Spreads via Facebook Private Messages, Instant Messengers

17

May

2012

We recently received reports about private messages found on Facebook and distributing a link, which is a shortened URL pointing to an archive file “May09-Picture18.JPG_www.facebook.com.zip”. This archive contains a malicious file named “May09-Picture18.JPG_www.facebook.com” and uses the extension “.COM”. Once executed, this malware (detected as WORM_STECKCT.EVL) terminates services and processes related to antivirus (AV) software, effectively […]

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Rumors of Facebook Timeline Troubles

19

Dec

2011

Facebook has started rolling out its new Timeline profile and over the weekend, here in Finland, there were some reports that private messages are being posted to users’ profiles. We have seen no solid evidence of this. And given that Facebook’s Finnish translation is far from perfect, the whole thing could just be a misunderstanding. […]

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Judge Orders Divorcing Couple to Trade Facebook Passwords

09

Nov

2011

Deep in the bowels of Facebook’s Terms of Use is this short but very important clause: You will not share your password, let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account. It’s something that all of us agreed to the moment we signed up for the […]

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